Yes, in the realm of duality, they appear different. But in Oneness, they are not.
This was my morning contemplation.
Lately, I’ve been trying to forgive myself for creating my own suffering. When I look closely, I see how it happened:
I took something personally.
I tried to change something outside myself.
And I judged.
That’s what suffering is made of, resistance, projection, and fear.
I often listen deeply to others not because I’m trying to fix, figure out, or plan but because I genuinely care. I try to live surrendered, without an agenda, simply present. But it struck me: if we weren’t so often trying to figure things out would there really be much to talk about?
If we didn’t speak about the past, about other people, or about what we hope (or fear) the future might bring… what would we be left with?
Presence.
What is.
This moment.
But I wasn’t present. I was talking about the past. I was speaking about someone else. I wanted to know what the future held. I was in fear.
As human beings, we’re waking up to the truth that All is One… all is Spirit. But most of us aren’t fully living that truth yet. We’re still seeking. And in our seeking, we bounce back and forth between fear and love between contraction and expansion.
This contraction and expansion is like a birthing process. We are laboring to be born into Spirit.
The Soul is the part of us that appears as a unique form—it evolves, it remembers, it forgets, it seeks. It is the wave longing to remember it is the ocean. The Soul is what moves through time and transformation.
Spirit, however, is Causeless. Eternal. It has no beginning and no end.
When the Soul awakens to its true nature its oneness with Spirit it merges into Pure Awareness. It is no longer separate. It no longer reacts. It no longer plays out cause and effect. It becomes one with the Causeless.
Until that moment of awakening, we react to the world as though it is outside of us, as though something out there is causing what we feel inside. This illusion keeps the wheel of karma spinning.
The Soul’s journey is the path of remembering. As it evolves, it moves closer to Spirit. And when that remembering is complete, the Soul dissolves into Oneness. It becomes what it always was Spirit.
Awakening is not easy. We cling to our sense of separateness, mistaking it for our identity. We fear that if we let go of the false self, we will disappear.
But Spirit has no fear. It has no polarity. It is not good or bad, right or wrong. It simply is. It is Pure, Unconditional Love.
Oneness is our natural state.
Until we awaken, we experience life through the Soul. But when we truly wake up, there is no more experiencer there is only experience.