How strong the ego has become these many millennia. We’ve become so enchained by its presence that we have forgotten our true self. This is madness.
I draw your attention to a quote I found in today’s New York Times. The article entitled “Sizing Up Obama, in Real Life” takes the reader on the President’s visit to Edison, NJ, a hub of working class, middle class America. A quote from a local police lieutenant sums up the ignorance and ego-centric attitude living in all of us today.
“Maybe he’s not a true socialist, but his ideals and ideas are — this kumbaya thing where everyone gets the same health care and the same benefits. And most of the health care is going to go to immigrants. Well, the country wasn’t built that way.”
Wow, that kind of sums it up for us all. Are we that void of love, compassion and human kindness. Is it just all about me? Do you think Thomas Jefferson would agree with that man? Hmm!
Imagine walking down the street and passing a homeless person. As we pass a voice calls out, ‘I am God.’ We turn to see only the homeless person before us and wonder where that voice could have come from. We ask, ‘did you say something’ and the homeless person replies ‘yes, I said I am God.’ A chuckle stirs from behind our breath and we stand amazed at the audacity of this misfortuned being. No sooner do we begin to utter our disapproval at this heresy does this being begin to glow with a golden aura. At once we notice a transformation both in him and in our self. Our ignorance mind sees through the veil and becomes enlightened and our recognition of this absolute truth becomes evident.
Now this allegory seems simplistic I know, but there is truth behind these words. If we could just immerse ourselves in the void for just a dot of time we would sense the realness of Divine Oneness.
Among my favorite passages from “Letters” is one in Letter Fourteen “Sides of Oneness.” I bring it back to you now. Meditate on it a while. It holds a knowing that can help make you free.
© 2010 cosmicobserver
“Sometimes, when I wake up in the middle of the night, I feel very much alone, like there is no God, no spirit, no nothing! It’s just me lying there, totally alone in the universe. I try to reach out to God or some spiritual essence, and I get nothing in response. I have to ask you, because you seem like someone who might have an answer. Why do many of us feel so lost and alone, even after a lifetime of seeking? Why would God, if God even exists, leave us feeling this way, without any direct communication? If God exists, why don’t we know it, constantly? Why don’t we really know when we really need to?”