The whole world is you. Yet you keep thinking there is something else.
- Hsueh-Feng
I know that truth is not the answer. Nor can it be. Truth is like an exercise machine - it just sits in the corner; useless until you get on and ride it. When anyone tells me “It's the truth”, I immediately discount everything that comes after that. If it's the truth, there's no need to tell me it is. If it isn't true, telling me it is won't make it any truer. Therefore the truth I want to share with you, the truth I know is true, is for information only (FYI). Yes, truth works. Yes, they're useful. Maybe even fundamental to inner satisfaction. Since you already know the truth, there is no reason for me to tell you. And you know the truth, because when you hear it, it fits. It feels right and it passes every test. Still, if you want to read them once and let them get dusty, that's all right with me.
Chapter One: What's All This?
Everyone you know is one and the same thing. Everything you see is one and same thing. Everything that has ever been, is now, or will ever be is one and same thing. There's only one thing that makes up everything we see, hear, think and feel. What we do with this knowledge or don't do is up to each of us.
That's it. End of story.
Still, some people seem to require a little more detail.
There is only one kind of thing that makes up us and everyone else. The test is to see is true is if this explanation of the world we know helps us in dealing with whatever happens to, through and around us.
Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world. But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.
- Kahlil Gibran
When we're in the zone; that is when we feel FULL of the energy that must always be available in endless supply, we know the truth of our connection to everything that is. It can appear that senses are heightened, we have confidence is whatever faces us and have endless certainty of right action.
When we're "small", feeling oppressed inside our own skin, everything and everyone feels strange to us. Hurtful, fearful. When I've chosen to be like this, I've felt a person's touch to be numbing. It's at this level where people claim to feel no connection at all. The one thing that IS, feels distant at best and more likely - a fable that can't be believed. At the worst, we decide there IS NO connection and we are a separate being. I felt a sense of separation today from People who are so sure they should attach negative emotions to the most innocuous activities; Data entry, Report Update, phone call reminder. Yet, and I know these same people have real feelings. I know ...not surprising... and YET.... they may sound upset over preceived injustice at work...but somewhere inside. They know The Universe. I saw their faces today. They looked at me from places I'd been, from thoughts I know, from beings I am. I wanted to show them my soul - to show them that they could feel about the important things. Like their own Lives, their connection to us, their true selves. All I needed to do was look and see them as they really are and listen and hear only the voice of God.
What if One could choose The Quiet Feeling of Acceptance and therefore Peace. Really. Actually just decide “I choose peace”.
The truth is just a thought away - release the pressure we imposed to keep ourselves so small - admit with love whatever comes in our hearts, our minds, our souls and poof - we "log in" to the Universal net.
This is an offer to the very next person you talk to, to focus entirely on them for a piece of time. Most especially, for someone that one would dare claim to "care about" instead of noting that same feeling of Love for the Entire World. If one is taking the awesome responsbility of believing that any certain person is special, then that person who authorizes him or herself to have that wondrous feeling of special love, that person has an awesome Opportunity and Responsibility to Accept that other one and therefore live in peace with that person as long as one can sustain it. That person could live quietly with that other person without definition or destination, giving space both physical and emotional, while pledging to be available. I acknowledge the apparent Work required to make any of this happen.
