In my own personal experience, one of the most difficult tasks on this "Journey" we are all taking relates to overcoming the "separation" concept.  While in the physical, we have a tendency to put the importance there, as even the "mental" is constantly bombarded with sensory stimuli taken in through the physical.  And, that is ok.  This thinking of Spirit as something "out there" that must be achieved is the basis for struggle, expectation, and often disappointment.

We are triune Beings.  One part of this whole is as intricate as any other.  I finally understand that the physical is necessary as a vehicle for the experience of existence, and it is this vehicle that is responsible for ever building to a higher level, that which is the soul/personality.  Yet, a vehicle, albeit necessary, it is.  The Spirit is patient in its realm of no-time, no-space.  The ripples in the Great Pond will reach outward, only when we throw our "pebble" in.  The Great Sea will form only through its droplets of "rain" into the rivers and streams.

Live, experience, make your mistakes, learn from them and carry on.  Climb your mountains, enjoy the plateaus along the way, and be ready to crawl up an inch a day even when you are sliding back two.  Always remember that you will receive back what you put out, and strive to put out LOVE, service to others, and yet, still stand strong for your principles.  Limit judgment to only yourself.

The trip is what you make it, the destination is only the returning to that from which you came.  Enjoy the physical world, for there is too much of it for it not to be of vast importance.  After all, it is but the portrait of the Spirit.  It is the Face Of God.