In Martin Laird's book Into the Silent Land, he describes the union between the soul and God with the following quote: "God is your being. And what you are, you are in God." (9) Laird writes that union with God is the fundamental reality of our being and separateness a highly filtered mental perception. Perhaps sensing at this point that some might have an anxiety about losing the self in the vastness of God, Laird writes that union "has nothing to do with being an amorphous blob." (10) If God is our being, is there a danger of losing or devaluing the human person? If God is at the heart of our human identity, does that mean we all the same