It Is All One

I think I spent 30 years of my life, the first 30 trying to become something. I wanted to become good at things, I wanted to become good at tennis and school and grades. And everything I kinda viewed in that perspective I’m not okay the way I am, but if I got good at things… I realized that I had the game wrong, because the game was to find out what I already was. 

Now, in our culture we have been trained for individual differences to stand out, so you look at each person and the immediate hit is… brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer poorer… and we make all these dimensional distinctions, put them in categories and treat them that way. And get so we only see others as separate from ourselves in the ways in which they are separate. And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you not different from you. And experiencing the fact that that which is essence in you; which is essence in me is indeed, one. The understanding that there is no other…it is all one. I wasn’t born Richard Albert, I was just born as a human being and then I learn this whole business of who I am, whether I’m good or bad, achieving or not… all that’s learned along the way.

The old appeals of racial, sexual and religious shovanism to rabid nationalistic fervor… are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism… and recognizes: an organism at war with itself is doomed.