ONENESS

Oneness

The Opportunity

 We’re sitting at a table in Ashland, Oregon all laughing hysterically. Two of us are from India, one from Japan, three from America. While our friends from overseas have thick accents, English is not their native language, now we understand each other completely. We have joined as a little group who met just 5 days earlier, yet now we can tell each other “I love you” and mean it. Not in a romantic way. Just Love. Seeing each other’s divinity, and our own. What a gift. A blessing. We all want everyone to experience this Oneness, this connection. Regardless of race, color, background, language, history, we can all feel it – and we never want to not feel it, having tasted it. Could our small group share our experience with two more, then two more, so that eventually this gift of Connection expands exponentially so that, suddenly, we wake up, all separate individuals, elevated in our power, because we are One with our Source and each other and everywhere we look, as we walk through the world, we see evidence of this. We discuss, Why not? It need not be so hard, distant, a mere dream. We have touched it here now. We all can experience it. It is just a laugh and table full of friends away…

How do we do this?

The Practice

Here are 3 practices if you’ve ever yearned to feel Oneness or had a moment when you glimpsed it and want it to be part of your everyday experience: with a coyote on a mountaintop, so to speak, or the person sitting beside you. You can feel Divine all the time.

1.  ALONE. Soshiro, a member of this little group at the table, tells us over dinner how every time before meeting a client he would take a deep breath and imagine that he is the only person on the planet. Completely alone. He feels that loneliness. Then walks in to greet his client. He is so happy to see her, for now there is another one, and it is just the two of them, on this planet. He wants to do and be everything for her, and make her happy, as he is so happy that he has someone he can be with on this planet. He pours everything into that moment and connection.

He shares with us that he has done this 30,000 times with clients. Yet his countenance suggests to me the youthful vigor of a schoolboy. So, rather than this practice being exhausting or draining, I believe it has helped him tap his Divinity deeper. Energizing.

2.  ASK. The powerful question from Neale Donald Walsch’s book The Essential Path: “Is there any part of what I am now seeing ‘over there’ that I have seen ‘over here’ – in myself?”

When sitting at a table, I see Soshiro’s awareness. Do I have that “here” too? Dave’s humor. Me, too? Sherri’s tender heart – do I have that in me as well? Taran’s passion – is it mine also, or some form of it? Manoj’s compassion – does it exist in me, somewhere, too?

And the so-called “bad” things that I might have judged. Do these qualities live in me, too, even if dormant? Have I known them in my experience?

When I feel this, I feel One with You. You, the “other” person across the table. You, Divine. A part of me, too. Yes.

3.  AWAKEN. When Soshiro and his friend from Japan drive me to my B&B our final night in Ashland, I stand barefoot in the grass, my luggage at the front door, having kicked my shoes off to feel more free.

We hug, then stand apart from each other. I feel the cool, damp grass beneath my feet – grasses where a doe and fawn had stood near me a few days before. I feel them here again now, if only for an instant. The sounds of a waterfall behind me, I tune into them instantly, too. The air behind me, feel it as part of me. My breath. I still can “be” with Soshiro, fully, while feeling all of these elements that also comprise the One. All together now. And feeling myself fully here, too; my core, All of Me.

It is not so hard, really. Expanding our experience of Oneness.

And when we do, we never feel alone again. We know better. We always have this Infinite Source to tap into. It is in Us. All Around Us.

When each of us starts to do this, we begin to “Awaken the Species.” What a gift. What a treasure. What a legacy.

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Jillian (Robinson) Weaver loves sharing stories of the heart – for the joy of it. An Emmy-winning television producer, author-photographer and coach, she hopes these words help kindle the light in your life to burn brighter and is grateful to be with you on this journey.