The third illusion, the illusion of Disunity may be used to experience your unity with everything.
If you are united with something for a long time, you will at some point cease to notice that there is a “you” at all. The idea of “you” as a separate entity will gradually disappear.
People who have been together for a very long time often experience this. They begin to lose their individual identity. This is one-derful – to a point. Yet the wonder of it disappears when the Unity is experienced without end, because Unity in the absence of Disunity is nothing. It is not experienced as ecstasy but as a void. In the absence of any separation, ever, Oneness is noneness.
That is why I have inspired it to be written: Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Drink, from a full cup but not from the same cup. The pillars that support a structure stand apart, and the strings of the lute are separate, though they quiver with the same music.
All of life is a process of experiencing Unity and separation, Unity and separation. This is the very rhythm of life. Indeed, this is the rhythm that creates Life Itself.
Life is a cycle, as is everything in it. The cycle is to and fro, to and fro. Together, apart. Together, apart.
Even when a thing is apart, it is always together, for it cannot truly separate, but only get larger. Therefore, even when a thing appears to be apart, it is still a part, which means it is not apart at all.
Your entire Universe was once unified beyond comprehension, compacted into a dot infinitesimally smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. It then exploded, yet it did no truly separate but merely became larger.
God cannot dismember Itself. We can appear to have come apart, but we have all simply become a part. Our intrinsic Unity is experienced once again when we re-member.
When you see others who appear separate from you, look at them deeply. Look into them. Do this for a long moment and you will capture their essence.
And then you’ll meet you, waiting there.
When you see things in your world – apart of nature, another aspect of life – that appears separate from you, just look at them deeply. Look into them. Do this for a long moment and you will capture their essence.
And then you’ll meet you, waiting there.
In that moment you will know Unity with all things. And as your sense of Oneness increases, suffering and sorrow will vanish from your life, for suffering is a response to separation, and sorrow is an announcement of its truth. Yet it is a false truth. It is something that only appears to be true. It is not ultimately true. True separation, from anyone or anything, is simply not possible. It is an illusion. It is a wonderful illusion, because it allows you to experience the ecstasy of Union, but it is an illusion nonetheless.
Using the illusion of Disunity as if it were a tool in the hands of a craftsman. Craft your experience of total unification with this tool, and use the tool again to re-create the experience over and over again.
When you see nothing, but you wherever you look, you peer through the eyes of God. And as your sense of Oneness increases, pain and disappointment will vanish from your life.
Always remember that.
As your sense of Oneness increases, pain and disappointment will vanish from your life.
