Our lives, on a very fundamental level, a microscopic level, contain billions of cells. Each cell is a living breathing, reproducing entity, and none of this is separated by anything from any other thing. We are all interdependent and connected both internally and externally. When we can see beyond me and mine, and them and us and all the divisions that we so conveniently hide behind we can see the grandeur of the entire grand drama play out in our lives and in our experiences.
Lecture on the Lotus Sutra