As I turned on my laptop this morning, the screen came up with a big blue box telling me all the things I could learn about Windows (as if I hadn’t been using Windows for a couple decades, now, and Windows 10 since the week it came out – sigh!). My first reaction was “really?” My next was to scan the screen to find a way to shut it down.
I did. I clicked on “skip for now” (oh dear, will have to deal with it again some day) and the big blue box went away to reveal my own beloved desktop wallpaper. Yay!
Then my eyes took in the words I’ve pasted onto that wallpaper: “I am living in a universe designed to heal the apparent separation…” It’s from the Course In Miracles, which I’ve been slowly but steadily “translating” into modern, easy-to-read-and-understand, American usage.
It woke me up – here Windows was offering me all kinds of ways to be interconnected – with my phone and other devices, with other computers, with the broad base of servers that make up “the Cloud” – and my first and only reaction was to shut it down… I wanted to remain separate!
And I thought about all the people, right now, fighting and protesting and in despair because of the deep separation among us called racism.
At that point, the insight came:
Humanity is committed to feeling separated, even though, every day, in every area of life, we’re being offered opportunities to overcome that illusion and feel the interconnectedness, the oneness.
For years I’ve been studying and teaching how this universe is one interconnected whole, of which we are all part. Its laws and processes are designed to help us experience – and benefit from – our interconnectedness. This earth is a special place where we get to bring into form what we imagine. Humanity’s fundamental longing is to overcome the sense of feeling separate from our Source, our Supply, and each other.
So the folks at Microsoft, seeking to heal the sense of separation and being focused on computers, imagine the healing as a complex interconnection of computers and other devices in one whole “Cloud” of easily accessed and utilized data bits.
Others, equally driven to undo this sense of separation, think that can only happen when we are all the SAME. Uniforms, fashions, skin color, school curricula – these are all expressions of that misguided understanding.
And yet, clearly, I, who have taught these principles for decades, now, still choose to live alone (and not put my data on the Cloud), demonstrating a need to maintain a sense of separation.
But “I live in a universe designed to heal the apparent separation.” Every moment is an opportunity to overcome this fundamental error in our thinking. We are not separate!
Every time the world erupts in racial violence – or any other sort. Every time we recognize ourselves judging another. Every time we realize that we have chosen away from resting in our oneness with the higher power, we are being moved one more step closer to experiencing the only Reality: our Oneness.
And that Reality is not homogeneous! That’s what we need to understand to overcome our fear. We get to be our individual selves – indeed we must be! – for the Oneness to function as a whole. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, our uniqueness is essential for the whole picture to be formed.
I doubt that I will soon take Windows up on their offer to integrate all the devices I use into one, complete, interactive network. But, today, I saw the “good” in what appears to be an awful mess “out there.” And that is...
We are all feeling drawn into the Oneness of our common humanity, the Oneness of our common home on this planet Earth, the Oneness that is our nature and our destiny.
Today, I accepted at a new level the Truth of our being. All that I see “out there” is showing me what’s going on “in here.” My own beliefs, choices, and actions, are constantly being reflected back to me – not to punish me or “teach” me a lesson, but so I can simply observe them and make a different choice.
Today, I choose to reach out, from my heart, and embrace all of “them”. All those “others” who do and say things I can’t imagine anyone doing or saying… (ah, but I must be able to! Because they are, and they reflect what’s inside me! Sigh!)… so here, now, once again I choose. I embrace them, and, in doing so, I feel the dissolving, the eradication of the possibility – in me, or in them – of such violent things being done or said. We are one – many facets of the same diamond, many pieces of the same puzzle, many colors of the same rainbow. We are one – in our humanity and in our divinity. And we are free – free to choose our individual ways of being and doing and relating in Love and Joy and Peace.
And so it is. And, realizing that this has become a prayer, I say AMEN.
I did. I clicked on “skip for now” (oh dear, will have to deal with it again some day) and the big blue box went away to reveal my own beloved desktop wallpaper. Yay!
Then my eyes took in the words I’ve pasted onto that wallpaper: “I am living in a universe designed to heal the apparent separation…” It’s from the Course In Miracles, which I’ve been slowly but steadily “translating” into modern, easy-to-read-and-understand, American usage.
It woke me up – here Windows was offering me all kinds of ways to be interconnected – with my phone and other devices, with other computers, with the broad base of servers that make up “the Cloud” – and my first and only reaction was to shut it down… I wanted to remain separate!
And I thought about all the people, right now, fighting and protesting and in despair because of the deep separation among us called racism.
At that point, the insight came:
Humanity is committed to feeling separated, even though, every day, in every area of life, we’re being offered opportunities to overcome that illusion and feel the interconnectedness, the oneness.
For years I’ve been studying and teaching how this universe is one interconnected whole, of which we are all part. Its laws and processes are designed to help us experience – and benefit from – our interconnectedness. This earth is a special place where we get to bring into form what we imagine. Humanity’s fundamental longing is to overcome the sense of feeling separate from our Source, our Supply, and each other.
So the folks at Microsoft, seeking to heal the sense of separation and being focused on computers, imagine the healing as a complex interconnection of computers and other devices in one whole “Cloud” of easily accessed and utilized data bits.
Others, equally driven to undo this sense of separation, think that can only happen when we are all the SAME. Uniforms, fashions, skin color, school curricula – these are all expressions of that misguided understanding.
And yet, clearly, I, who have taught these principles for decades, now, still choose to live alone (and not put my data on the Cloud), demonstrating a need to maintain a sense of separation.
But “I live in a universe designed to heal the apparent separation.” Every moment is an opportunity to overcome this fundamental error in our thinking. We are not separate!
Every time the world erupts in racial violence – or any other sort. Every time we recognize ourselves judging another. Every time we realize that we have chosen away from resting in our oneness with the higher power, we are being moved one more step closer to experiencing the only Reality: our Oneness.
And that Reality is not homogeneous! That’s what we need to understand to overcome our fear. We get to be our individual selves – indeed we must be! – for the Oneness to function as a whole. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, our uniqueness is essential for the whole picture to be formed.
I doubt that I will soon take Windows up on their offer to integrate all the devices I use into one, complete, interactive network. But, today, I saw the “good” in what appears to be an awful mess “out there.” And that is...
We are all feeling drawn into the Oneness of our common humanity, the Oneness of our common home on this planet Earth, the Oneness that is our nature and our destiny.
Today, I accepted at a new level the Truth of our being. All that I see “out there” is showing me what’s going on “in here.” My own beliefs, choices, and actions, are constantly being reflected back to me – not to punish me or “teach” me a lesson, but so I can simply observe them and make a different choice.
Today, I choose to reach out, from my heart, and embrace all of “them”. All those “others” who do and say things I can’t imagine anyone doing or saying… (ah, but I must be able to! Because they are, and they reflect what’s inside me! Sigh!)… so here, now, once again I choose. I embrace them, and, in doing so, I feel the dissolving, the eradication of the possibility – in me, or in them – of such violent things being done or said. We are one – many facets of the same diamond, many pieces of the same puzzle, many colors of the same rainbow. We are one – in our humanity and in our divinity. And we are free – free to choose our individual ways of being and doing and relating in Love and Joy and Peace.
And so it is. And, realizing that this has become a prayer, I say AMEN.
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