Oneness & Joy
FROM CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ONENESS & JOY
ONENESS
Oneness wisdom seems to have a way of pointing at something out there to show that it is really in here. There is One Indwelling Presence in everything, and anyone on the path of this awareness must live in the paradox of looking at otherness, and seeing sameness; this path is the practice of rising above the illusion of separation. Albert Einstein said that we experience life as separate, and our task is to free ourselves from this “self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.”
The concept of Oneness conjures up the idea of advanced enlightenment or something understood only by Saints, Sages, Mystics and wise beings who do not seem to live in the world with you and me. But the very thing they teach says that it is all of us, not just some of us, and that we could see it if we looked for it. We are all created out of and live in the same stuff, so we are all in this experience together.
Those who dwell on the Spirit on the inside must also dwell on the Spirit on the outside, making the outer-most and the inner-most One. The Path of Oneness can be walked in a cave, but it is what is outside of the cave where the real work lies. The path is the taking of all that we see, everything out there, all that we love or hate, everything that we agree or disagree with, all the forms of good and bad and taking it inside.
From the Poem:
This Day is Like a Ruby
“The dawn has kissed the twilight,
Sweetened lips have touched once more.
Birthing this new horizon,
More glorious than ever before.”