Thoughts of Oneness

Truly I live in an illusion where I am separate from God by labels, and boundaries -- but most of all, guilt. The Christ has fully resolved any grievances between all of us and the divine Source, and in fact we are to be intimate with our "Abba", the great Daddy. Someday it will not feel strange to call the incredible life source "Daddy." Only my guilt and ignorance keeps me from fully embracing this concept -- yet I wish to very strongly! However, as I said in the last entry, I know all is well. There is no "goal" to set for myself, instead to just be a divine Child. So, here are some poems and thoughts on the beautiful oneness I seek. (This may be a bit long but I hope they speak to you.)

The more we talk, the more we think, the more we ideate, the more we separate ourselves from each other. Identify you, as you, as you, as you. And you’re a republican, and you’re a democrat, you’re a beatnik, you’re a hippie, you’re a… this, that, and the other thing; you’re a square or whatever. The more I identify you, you see, in these terms, the more I don’t feel that you are me. You really, physically, are me. All of you; each one, to everybody else, is like a dewdrop on a spider’s web in the early morning which contains in itself all the reflections of all the other dewdrops. And we really relate to each other like that. But in language, in communication, we all put ourselves apart as separate entities, see? And believe that. So the more we go on with this, the more we are divided up, the more we quarrel, the more we don’t understand how to cooperate. -Alan Watts

Separating the world into ideas, concepts, things, boxes -- is useful for certain activities we do. But I believe that we must never forget that the reality is oneness, all things are tied together into the One. 

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr

I cannot express my sadness at the current state of the American church. We have been taught to spit out bible verses and make every part of life as some kind of rule. I see that many of these people never truly live, never really trust the Spirit, never learn that people and life and living are infinitely more valuable than rules, as Jesus himself says more than once. (Mark 2:27, Mark 3:4)

Only the oneness of love

and the lover is eternal.

Surrender your heart into this union,

for all else in this world is momentary.

-Rumi

We can spend our lives playing "spiritual whack-a-mole" (as I call it) where we just keep running around tackling problems and trying to "fix" the world, or we can understand that our highest and best purpose is to surrender.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life

I was a bride married to amazement.

I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder

if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,

or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

― Mary Oliver

 

We are not a visitor in this world, we are part of it. The world, the trees, the wonderful fruit, the flowers... it was made for us, and us for it. All of the amazing things that there are, without us to observe it, what is it? We give things life as we observe them and appreciate them. How sad would it be if all of this beauty, the stars, the grass, was never observed? How sad would it be for a person to live a life and never truly see these things? Even a traditional Christian can remember God didn't just make us from nothing, we were made from the very soil. We are born from the earth and spirit. Not just material, not just spiritual, both, just as Jesus walked the earth. (In fact, material and spirit are simply concepts and part of the same One!)

I'm going to make this into two parts, now, since it is a bit long.