Oneness and practical mysticsm
Our spiritual teaching is essentially a mystical one. While we are seeking to express our lives joyously, freely, abundantly and meaningfully, our ability to do so is fundamentally based on our understanding of the creative process and our Oneness with this Universal Power and Presence.
I have come to the realization that the only thing that stands in the way of our lived-internal-experience of Oneness (not just intellectual belief in the idea) is the conversation we are having in our minds about whatever is going on. This conversation is the veil, the illusion of separation that keeps us from BEING in the moment, and therefore BEING One with whatever we are doing or whomever we are with.
The constant chatter of reporting, analyzing, critiquing, self-deprecation, and projections that come from our fears, lies and false beliefs, is the ONLY thing that stands between us and our experience of the Divine as us and as our lives.
The contemplative life is a life lived in the felt-authentic-experience of oneness with the Source. We start out with an intellectual agreement with this idea, and then through spiritual practices of mediation, movement, ritual, activism, art, listening, and many others, we begin to move from this as an idea into an internal subjective experience. Each of these practices has one primary purpose - to focus us on our oneness by stilling the mind chatter - to move and live in the gap between the words (or thoughts) where Being lies, in the stillness, simply waiting for our awareness of it.
Oneness is the Reality of all life. We all share Life. We are all, already ONE - with Life, with the Holy, with each other, with everything. This is our true nature, which both the ancient mystics and the newest sciences have told us.
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