Somebody…I think I’ve seen it attributed to Mahatma Gandhi? … talked about it as different people climbing the same mountain from different directions. Some are headed northbound up the south slope, some are headed southbound up the north slope, and so on. Trails gradually converge, especially as you get close to the peak. Etc.
Thanks.
“Then why witness?”
Call it “Spiritual Relevant Stuff I Must Share” (SRSIMS)
The Devil took a big dump in God’s punch bowl. Adam & Eve said “eeeww”, Atlas shrugged, and here we are today!
AH3, I love your second redaction. I feel the truth of it deep in my heart. Thank you so much. It was beautiful and made me cry.
Anyone who practices the craft of writing knows that the writer always rewrites her first draft. She never goes with the first draft. Sometimes it takes many rewrites. Please always keep clarity in mind.
I invite you to compare your exquisite myth with a *hadîth qudsî:
Qâla Allâh kuntu kanzan makhfîyan wa-ahbabtu an u‘rifa fa-khalaqtu al-khalq*
Allah says: I was a hidden treasure and I wanted to be known, so I created the creation.
Note that in Sanskrit Allâh means ‘Mother’.
AH3, your wonderful myth was a hidden treasure, hidden like Sleeping Beauty behind a thicket of impenetrable diction. When you clarified your writing, the Beauty awoke and came forth into the open. Thank you, dear friend. I feel blessed to be able to call you my friend.
Thanks 
(Bolding mine) This becomes confusing then. If in the beginning God was all that was, and then God split into herself and something that was still really the same, how can such a split result in something completely separate? You seem to be saying that before the split there was nothing that was not God, and that after the split there was nothing that was not God, yet some kind of ‘separateness’ exists. How can something be ‘separate from God’ but not ‘other than God’?
If it is not true that they are one and the same, then it must be true that they are not one and the same.
Why were we born to suffer and die? What is the point of separating from God? What is improved by the torturous journey back to God? Is it simply to amuse her and relieve her boredom?
She’s having fun being you. Being you is probably more fun than you think 
Seriously, while life should be expected to contain struggle and strife, along with triumph and creativity and delights, if life as you know it, and as you observe others around you to be living it, seems to consist mostly of suffering, something is out of whack. Most likely a transitional phase of some sort, but still, your dislike for the situation can lead to you making changes (or participating in making changes) that propel the species to a better situation.
Well, yeah, I would agree that describes now. I think the Chinese were reputedly known for cursing people with “May you live in interesting times”. We live in interesting times. Put your seat belts on, expect disruption and disaster (alongside of seemingly miraculous new things showing up at breakneck speed) and rapid change, not all of it by any means good.
But that’s just only for now. Wasn’t always that way, won’t always be that way.