Hi Kiki - I don't see the connecting as a duality - it and me - is see it as a melding. opening to isness - a wholeness. I see it as a conscious seeing of when and where our minds take us away from that wholeness. Our minds so do keep us as me and it - ego stuff - but connecting - which is being - is so good for all of us human thinkers to be aware of. Like looking at that plant and understandng its isness.
yes, we are the source but also our minds have removed us - hence why Tolle wrote his works, and we become conscious of our need for alignment. And as Dyer says: the source is (you are ) self fulfilling - there is not good/bad there jjust is the whole thing ready to fulfill you, so what you think is what you get. Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change...
The noise we make - our planes and boats and electricity and cars and pollution and factories and all - yes, this is "part of it all", but I find that these aspects dampen the open path of nowness just as the mind-made shit does from the now, the source, the joy. I need to chang the way I see these interferences - this noise that makes it hard for me to be congruent.
During the tsunami native peoples knew to go to high ground because they we not fettered by all of the "noise" of our current state of "civilization." This noise - yes it's part of the all - but shit, man it stands between us and the stars, us and the night sky, us and the air, and the water. I loved it that the native guy shot an arrow at a coast guard helicopter. We need to get back to the nature of things, and that's not dualistic, it's necessary to our survival as a species.
kiki - thanks so much for initiating this conversation.