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Frenchgoddess · 26-30, F
No matter where you go, everyone’s connected. All the elements in your body were forged many many millions of years ago in the heart of a far away star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space.
After so, so many millions of years these elements came together to form new stars and new planets and on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart until eventually they formed shoes and ships and ceiling wax and cabbages and kings. They came together to make you, along with everyone else in the universe. We're all connected. It's the ultimate circle of life and death.
The universe exists as a unified field or whole, it took me a long time to finally understand this. I had to train my brain to operate on this higher level of seeing all the connections. It's both awe-inspiring and humbling when you start to fit all the pieces together.
Energy swirling as atoms, giving rise to molecules, forming galaxies, stars, planets, mountains, rivers and the bodies of all living beings... If this is so, why do we not “see” the world this way, experience our lives for the miracle it is?
Honestly, only cultural myths and beliefs stand in the way. The dualistic and compartmentalized thoughts we have been taught since childhood. These are stand-alone concepts that divide “All That Is” into separate parts to which we give names—Science here, Art & Religion over there, Entertainment here, Education there, Humans here, Nature “out” there. Work time, play time, school time, study time. Children segregated by age into boxes. Adults segregated by careers, nationalities, socio-economic status and everything else you could possibly imagine. These boxes divide everything. It's wrong. All of these things are intimately interrelated.
If you can open your mind to the UNITY that exists beyond the maze, your consciousness begins to transcend such categories of thought. One’s sense of individualized identity drops away.
Awareness then begins to awaken to the deeper reality and deeper identity that has been here all the time. An ever-present unified & creative mystery expressing itself as all of us—to which we have always belonged—but had been blind to, and just didn’t see…
We are not simply bystanders on a cosmic stage; we are shapers and creators living in a participatory universe.
We are one. One world, divided by land and water, divided by border guards and barbed wire, divided by race, divided by religion, divided by class, divided by political parties, divided by a system that with disregarding bloodthirstiness drives the axe between human camaraderie, by telling us that we should hate our neighbor, because they are different from us, without even knowing them, and for no other reason.
If we could just sit down with one another, we might realize our differences are not as insurmountable as they originally appeared. Then we might discover kinship within one another, and the unity I've been talking about.
It is only when “we” becomes “I" that we crumble.
If only we made others’ suffering our suffering. Others’ oppression our oppression. Others’ triumphs our triumphs. Others’ happiness our happiness.
If only we were as patient in getting to know others as we are hasty in judging them. If we dried the tears of the social leper with the flesh of our fingertips, gave every hungry mouth something to eat, and a place at the table.
The worst thing is being able to see all the problems but not being able to solve them. But I can picture it well. If we all stopped running, bent to our knees, and held out of our palms to the fallen, even if it meant we lose this ruthless race to superficial prosperity... our souls would surely flourish.
After so, so many millions of years these elements came together to form new stars and new planets and on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart until eventually they formed shoes and ships and ceiling wax and cabbages and kings. They came together to make you, along with everyone else in the universe. We're all connected. It's the ultimate circle of life and death.
The universe exists as a unified field or whole, it took me a long time to finally understand this. I had to train my brain to operate on this higher level of seeing all the connections. It's both awe-inspiring and humbling when you start to fit all the pieces together.
Energy swirling as atoms, giving rise to molecules, forming galaxies, stars, planets, mountains, rivers and the bodies of all living beings... If this is so, why do we not “see” the world this way, experience our lives for the miracle it is?
Honestly, only cultural myths and beliefs stand in the way. The dualistic and compartmentalized thoughts we have been taught since childhood. These are stand-alone concepts that divide “All That Is” into separate parts to which we give names—Science here, Art & Religion over there, Entertainment here, Education there, Humans here, Nature “out” there. Work time, play time, school time, study time. Children segregated by age into boxes. Adults segregated by careers, nationalities, socio-economic status and everything else you could possibly imagine. These boxes divide everything. It's wrong. All of these things are intimately interrelated.
If you can open your mind to the UNITY that exists beyond the maze, your consciousness begins to transcend such categories of thought. One’s sense of individualized identity drops away.
Awareness then begins to awaken to the deeper reality and deeper identity that has been here all the time. An ever-present unified & creative mystery expressing itself as all of us—to which we have always belonged—but had been blind to, and just didn’t see…
We are not simply bystanders on a cosmic stage; we are shapers and creators living in a participatory universe.
We are one. One world, divided by land and water, divided by border guards and barbed wire, divided by race, divided by religion, divided by class, divided by political parties, divided by a system that with disregarding bloodthirstiness drives the axe between human camaraderie, by telling us that we should hate our neighbor, because they are different from us, without even knowing them, and for no other reason.
If we could just sit down with one another, we might realize our differences are not as insurmountable as they originally appeared. Then we might discover kinship within one another, and the unity I've been talking about.
It is only when “we” becomes “I" that we crumble.
If only we made others’ suffering our suffering. Others’ oppression our oppression. Others’ triumphs our triumphs. Others’ happiness our happiness.
If only we were as patient in getting to know others as we are hasty in judging them. If we dried the tears of the social leper with the flesh of our fingertips, gave every hungry mouth something to eat, and a place at the table.
The worst thing is being able to see all the problems but not being able to solve them. But I can picture it well. If we all stopped running, bent to our knees, and held out of our palms to the fallen, even if it meant we lose this ruthless race to superficial prosperity... our souls would surely flourish.
LucyCan · 26-30, F
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