We must all overcome the illusion of separateness. It is the primary task of religion to communicate not worthiness but union, to reconnect people to their original identity....God’s job description is to draw us back into primal and intimate relationship. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," November 13, 2020
As I read Rohr's quote above, I wondered...do I believe that? Do I believe "the illusion of separateness?" From my eyebrows up, yes...or, is it that I just don't question it?
I remember a class in philosophy back in my college days. As I recall, and my recollection is subject to question these many years later, but it's mine now: The concept being taught that day was that nothing is material...it, we, everything is whirling, whizzing altogether whajamacallits. It made not a lick of sense to me but I never forgot it.
Years later, when I began seeking spiritual answers, Golas's "Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" fell into my hands, and the first few pages backed that up. I intuitively knew that to be true and did not try to figure it out. Interestingly, it was in that first reading of the "Guide" that I learned "we must go beyond reason to love."
I doubt not that background gave me the key to opening so readily to the Sermon on the Mount. In my experience, spiritual truth comes to us almost in reverse of rational thought, and the Sermon in its entirety proves that point...in particular resist not evil.
I have ever been grateful for my intuitive nature which, I believe, eased me into going beyond reason deeper to the higher meaning of life. The Sermon has been...and is...my how-to manual.
Yes, I do believe in the "illusion of separateness," and no, I cannot reason it out.
Thank you.
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