Oneness

8 Life
The same awareness that exists in you exists in me,
your parents, your relatives, your friends, your pets, and
every living thing in existence. Our apparently many forms
are really just a manifestation of the one formless
consciousness.
Look into the eyes of another being: can you not see
the same source of life staring back at you? Consciousness
is not dull and lifeless; it is living, it is aware, it is intelligent
and blissful. Consciousness is the spirit of life that is
expressing itself in the world of form—through my form,
your form, and through all forms.
Consciousness is the substance of creation. There is
the personal experience of consciousness that each being
has—this is what people often refer to as the soul—and
there is the omnipresent consciousness which is the total
field of consciousness itself—the spirit. The soul is just a
temporary manifestation of the spirit. It is consciousness
inhabiting form. It still has its roots in the total field of
consciousness, just as every tree has its roots in the total
field of the earth.
On the surface, it may appear that we exist
independently of the other souls around us, but this is just
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