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Oneness and the absolute
Oneness
Oneness is the recognition that beneath the surface of separate things runs a single, undivided life. What appears as a world of many - many selves, many objects, many moments - is the play of one reality wearing countless faces. To know oneness is to feel the seam dissolve between you and what you behold, until the watcher and the watched are seen as one movement.
Carried by 8 teachers · across 5 traditions · 5 quotes
Every great stream of wisdom returns to this gate. The Upanishads name it Brahman, the Tao calls it the uncarved root, the mystics call it God, the physicists glimpse it as an unbroken whole. Oneness is not a belief to be argued but a seeing to be lived - and once seen, it quietly reorders the heart, dissolving the loneliness that comes from imagining oneself apart.
In their words
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.Rumi
Tat tvam asi — That thou art.Chandogya Upanishad
You are the universe experiencing itself.Alan Watts
The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.David Bohm
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.Meister Eckhart