Wow - these are all wonderful posts and they ring true for me as well.
It's amazing what I find the longer I stay sober and journey deeper into recovery. The fears have lessened or disappeared, the lightbulb moments of clarity keep coming. They all enhance my belief in the connectedness of this universe.
In a pamphlet I like to read called "9 Essays - Buddhism and the 12 Step Model of Recovery", the author speaks of alcoholics no longer thinking of the self as "an isolated body in space, bumping into other isolates...but a point along the continuum of interconnectedness."