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Seperation to Oneness to Compassion

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  In the Heart not the Mind, we begin to get that sense of Oneness or Unity. No matter how it happens, when it happens it becomes infectious! It may not be constant, but it does grow.  It erodes the hypnotic hold of duality and separation. The more we try to see from that perspective, the more it takes hold of the heart.  Rather than the habit of seeing things as separate, we get in to the habit of seeing things as interconnected, interdependent - as One Being manifesting in multifurous ways, composing a great purposeful symphony of life. Seeing the world with oneness is to see it from love, love is the enabling force of Oneness and it changes everything – it radically changes us - we don’t function from the vantage point of fear and self-centeredness anymore and our actions reflect this – the heretofore apparent chaos of life is suddenly transformed into a flowing dance of love, harmony, and beauty.  Everything has changed, yet nothing has changed... except our po...

WHY?

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  If the One Reality (God) is already a part of us, why is it so hard to realize that Unity? Consider how difficult it is for the mirror to see itself -- everything is reflected in it, and it, the soul, naturally sees whatever is reflected in its mirror and gets lost in those reflections. Thereby it forgets itself. This is the real hall of mirrors. It is VERY hard to break out of this hypnosis of consciousness!   Further, the reflections set up a perception of separation, a dichotomy between that which sees and that which is seen which obscures the true perception of oneness - this is the illusion independent existence.  In reality the mirror and its reflections are not separate, they just appear that way from the vantage point of the reflections which the mirror has adopted by not being able to see itself. Thinking it is a separate entity, for some reason, is also deeply intoxicating to the soul.  Breaking this hypnosis is hard but...