Hi, Eric. That was a very thoughtful post, and I totally agree with you that we are just silly if we think we can or should be be certain of anything! What I don't know is: everything. All I can do is experience what it is to be here, and I want to do so with great joy. Out of that great joy (inside of that great joy), I've found a few tools that work pretty well in living a life I love, and the sense that we are connected, that we are one, is one of the most profoundly effective tools for that. I don't believe we are One like, "it's The Truth" and everyone who doesn't see it my way is wrong. In fact, saying "I believe" doesn't really resonate for me at all. It doesn't feel like a belief, and it doesn't feel like wishful thinking. It doesn't feel like fear (like, "if we're all separate computers, we are alone and lonely and screwed"), and it doesn't feel like religion.
To me right now, the sense that we are all in this together, that we are connected and we are part of oneness, feels like a gift: a place to stand that has my heart overflowing with love, peace, and freedom. A perspective from which my life is a fun fountain. That feels like really something, you know? It's something to be freely shared, and that's why I share it.
We are connected and we are one -- it's not The Truth, and I won't try to convince you of it. And since we are one, I want all of us to feel good on purpose, so I want to put Oneness in my front window and make it available for anyone who passes by and wants to, to try it on and kick up their heels at how delightful it feels.
Does that make sense?  |