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When people ask me questions about living in unity, the questions are most often framed as:
"How do I live in unity when . . . " and they go on to describe some challenging situation or circumstance.
The real question is: How do I live in unity when I feel shut down, contracted, resentful, angry, etc.
The only thing that ever causes me to step out of unity and into separation is the thought, "This should be different than the way it is."
Contraction or all the feelings and experiences most people call "bad" is a natural and inevitable part of life. It is these things that make life interesting, that open me up to the deeper parts of my own nature. It is these things that require me to find the reserves of energy, power, intelligence and love that I never knew I had.
To live in unity in the midst of feeling crappy, of feeling resentful, of feeling angry, of feeling like everything valuable has been taken away, is to relax into the experience that is coming up.
Love is what creates unity out of differences.
Love just means welcoming, loving, accepting what is appearing now.
It is the simple act of opening to this moment, without trying to make it be something other than it is.
In love, there is peace.
When there appears to be another whose behavior, words, or presence seem to create the feeling of contraction ("If they would just change, or get out of my life, then I'd be fine."), this is the chance to love the apparent other, and myself, at the same time.
"I love you AND I love me."
To love another is to stand in their shoes, see life from their perspective, understand and have compassion for what they seem to be experiencing. To know them as you know yourself.
AND connects their experience to your own.
To love yourself is to honor your needs, your desires, and your feelings at the same time you love the other.
This is life in unity.
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