08-02-2011, 01:09 PM
(08-02-2011, 11:36 AM)Pickle Wrote: I can say everything is connected, but to say all is one and I can sit on my thumbs is actually apathy and stagnation.
Might I suggest that saying everything is connected but that it means 'sitting on your thumbs' shows that the experience of oneness eludes you..? When oneness is known and experienced there can be no thought of apathy, stagnation, and so on. In fact, such thoughts are only ego not experiencing oneness, and thus seeing separation as stagnant or needing a call to action.
Quote:I am not trying to change, but only to grow. I am happy with "what" I am and "where" I am (earth) but I have an instinctive drive to seek.
Bearing in mind the former ideas I suggest, is not the 'drive to seek' only the ego seeing that something needs to be sought in order to be 'ok', to be 'happy', to be 'one'..?
I hope my thoughts do not sound like an attempt to be mysterious. Ego is a part of us which sees everything as separate, and a part of us which is essential. But when all of our waking moments are filtered through our ego we are constantly bombarded with thoughts of what is needed, what we should or must do, not do, and so on.
When we retire into stillness, we may experience oneness, and in that oneness all is present. There is no need to 'be' something, to 'achieve' something, to 'ascend' from what we are into something different. May I suggest that in stillness we find that we are everything we always are and ever need to be. We find oneness and true realisation.