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- We Are All One
So many times we find ourselves frustrated, amused and simply confused by other people’s actions. We don’t understand why people do certain things that they do and we desperately want to label what they do and call it “good” or “bad”.
From the beginning of the ages many saints and prophets alike wrote philosophies on the topic of noticing something in someone else that you lack in yourself.
The Bible relates by saying, “You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Buddha says, “Consider others as yourself.”
I believe everything in the universe is consciousness. Space and time in all planes of reality are only projections within universal consciousness.
If this is the case we can easily relate to the concept that what lives in another person also lives in you. The fact that you can notice jealousy in another person is only possible because you too can experience the emotion of jealousy. Otherwise you would not know what you are seeing. How would you notice something you cannot feel?
To make this more relevant to our everyday lives think of it this way. You notice someone dancing alone on the dance floor without a care in the world. You point the person out to your friends and have a private laugh about it. You only notice that person dancing and point it out because in you somewhere is a lack connected to this person’s “act of dancing.” Somewhere inside, you either feel like you lack the confidence to do something like that, you can’t dance, or you are too self conscious to be out on the dance floor alone.
Many times the hardest thing is to be Honest enough with ourselves and push our ego’s aside so we can identify the reasons we notice things in others.
Remember, everybody is a reflection of you, one way or another. So be kind to those around you for essentially you are being kind to yourself.
Martin
