Unity and trust come from knowing that we are not separate from the creative forces of the universe.
I would like to celebrate the unification of all living beings of this great universe, to the oneness that we all are, to unity. Knowing deeply that we are created from the same matter and energy that began the universe, the galaxy, and the planet is a step in understanding that we ARE creative energy. By allowing this flowing of creation to evolve the quality of our lives and the life of that which sustains us, the earth, we can dream into being the solutions for the challenges that appear around us at this time. We cannot do this alone, however. We already understand the power of a collective, the magnitude of multiple and millions of us joined together. I believe in our abilities as humans to lift the ego’s and dualities of the places that we are at this time as humanity, bringing us to a oneness with the source of divine energy and so living our daily lives with peace, joy, and equality.
There are many branches that lead us to the light of the open sky.
This will require a restructuring of the basics of our values. In the past, groups of people living together functioned under a set of common values that guided how those people communicated, used and shared resources, ate, developed relationships, and conducted spiritual rituals. Today, our values can be so vastly different from every one of our neighbors that we have become isolated in our communities and enveloped in ignorance, fear, or judgements about who they are and who we are. Who is right and who is wrong? Who is capable, worthy, rich, lucky, smart, and who is not? We see these values as the defining qualities that make us either good or bad, or somewhere in between. These limitations become the lens in which we view the world and everything in it, including the ideas that separate spiritual beliefs into religions. Separating ourselves from each other in this way leads millions of people down the road to depression and anger, isolation and judgement.
But really, we are born with the solution. We come into this world from the source of our spirits merged with the source of the spirit that created us. In our most intelligent and intuitive state, we chose the parents we needed for this journey of physical being. We are teachers, even as we first emerge. We come loaded with trust and purity, with energetic receptors and unconditional love. But we are also sponges, absorbing the words and energies of everything around us, capable of amplifying and mirroring our influences. As we grow into adults, those influences become our lenses as well, whether we follow the same limitations or abruptly turn away from them in protest.
We are beings of emotions and senses. We cannot help but feel. We take on, through sight and sound, through touch and taste and smell, the emotions of the world. We are not meant to be shut down, to be limited, to be programmed. We are the expression of the emotions that we connect with and empathize with if only we are allowed to. It is through these levels of expression that we process the emotions that rise and fall, and so turn emotions into revelations. Revelations in turn spark the next steps of our actions, which become offers to those around us, gifts that may be taken up and integrated into someone else’s expression. Good and bad become the same thing- moments that shape us with opportunities of expression and deeper understanding. We are all in different stages of this process. Unity does not mean that we will cease to feel the turbulence of living. It seeks to erase the lines of separation, and so cushioning each of us with a secure knowledge of belonging and worthiness in the light of divine love. With this understanding, compassion blossoms, and so too, the doors to unconditional love and the return to our inner child.
Something big is coming.
It’s still a secret, but arriving everywhere.
The atmosphere is charged with longing and searching.
The pilgrims and the mystery-lovers know.
They are gathering now
The sound of prayer drifts across the dawn.
It’s Muslim, Jew, Christian
All mingled
All religions
All this singing
One Song.
The differences are just illusion and vanity.
The sunlight looks a little different on this wall
Than it does on that.
And a lot different on this other one.
But it’s still one light.
We have borrowed these clothes
These time and place personalities
From a Light.
And when we praise,
We’re pouring them back in.
–Rumi
Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit
that was yours at birth and that can be yours again.
That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness
with the world around you, is still within you.
-Deepak Chopra
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