The spiritual teachers I've learned from generally all emphasize the importance of realizing our oneness...oneness with all and everything.
I was pondering oneness this morning, and I thought of my contention that whenever a disagreement arises, God's hand is in it when all parties come out the winner. Which led to the thought that if all sides win, there is no winner, there is only one. It follows then that when one person wins and the other loses, ego is the winner and all sides lose. If all sides lose, there is no loser, there is only one.
Spiritually, this makes sense. To the reasoning mind, not so much.
Clearly, to me at any rate, the reason we want to stay with the spiritual is it is peaceful. Peace usually lives where there is no rat-race competition (which is often only in our own mind). There is very little peace in the ego-powered reasoning mind for it is run by the fear that if you don't lose, I'm a loser.
Finding our own personal definition of oneness is important...probably because the idea doesn't come naturally. But it's like Willy Sutton's answer when asked why he robbed banks..."That's where the money is." We need find Oneness because that's where peace is.
Thank you.
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