Parts
of the Whole
“Only
that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”
Ram
Dass
We
live every day with the illusion of separateness—as though we are
an island disconnected from all else. As if the crows I hear gabbing
with one another are not part of me, and do not speak to me. We live
as though all that is happening in the world, that which is far away,
and out of sight except on the evening news, has nothing to do with
us.
We
can test the error of this hypothesis by going to any coastline and
sitting for a time by the sea. With the waves lapping and splashing,
with the tempo of the tides, we feel our bodies tune in, calm down,
join in the ebb and flow. We come to ground, our brainwaves entrain.
Anyone can experience this, and know at once that they are connected
in very fundamental ways with the sea and its rhythms. But when it
comes to most of nature, or to war and upheaval, we feel separate. We
are not.
This
is not a judgment. It is a simple fact that we humans must grasp if
we are to evolve to a more spiritual level of consciousness. We are
all connected in ways we cannot experience with our five senses.
Those connections are as real as steel cables, as real as hand-cuffs.
We must begin to feel them within and all around us, not to punish
ourselves, but to correct our mistaken notion of separateness. We are
all parts of one continuous whole. I am part of you, and you are
part of me no matter where on this planet you exist.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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