Unity is Experienced Through Connection

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Chris Attwood

Unity realized is bliss realized. Bliss arises from my connection with my Self.

Connection is fun, delightful, exciting, inspiring, and interesting. Separation is boring, depressing, and ultimately intolerable. It is through connection that I discover myself.

This doesn't mean I always want to be with people. Sometimes more people means more sense of separation. Connection is the connection to myself. The power of meditation is in allowing myself to dive within myself to connect with the unbounded, infinite, eternal, limitless magic of myself.

When that magic predominates my experience, then the connections with the apparent people in my world become magical. This is the magnetic attraction of Facebook. Through the simple sharing of what I'm doing right now, Facebook allows me to connect with the daily lives of hundreds or even thousands of other people.

In doing that I'm connecting with hundreds or thousands of expressions of myself, and what can be more fun than that?

The more deeply I connect with myself, the more joy I experience in life. As this realization more fully dawns, I discover that this is all life was ever about. No matter how much fun it may be to accomplish things, achieve things, or be recognized for things, none of it matters at all once those things have been achieved or accomplished or recognized.

The only thing that ever mattered was the experience of connection to the wholeness of my own nature. It is because my passions lead me to that connection that they draw me so irresistably. The things I love and care about are the path to connection with my Self.

The more I allow those things to guide my life, the more joy increases. The more fully aligned I become with my passions, the more I express the uniqueness of this particular expression of the wholeness that is my complete nature. That uniqueness then begins to fit perfectly with other apparent unique expressions of that same wholeness.

This fitting together is like the weaving of a tapestry. Each thread is essential to the beauty of the ultimate design. There is no thread which can be left out without taking away from the perfection of the whole.

This is life. The awareness of the necessity of every single part to complete the magnificence of the totality. With this recognition there is no experience of life which can bring anything but joy.