behind mirrors

Look into
the eyes
of every person
you see…
you see yourself
you might feel shy
or like it’s
strange to look
into this random
person’s eyes…
your only fear
is the mirror
that confronts you
and the truth
that hides behind
all the eyes -
it’s you
that you will
always find

Love your neighbor as your self

Christianity: “In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you.” - Matthew 7:12

Islam: “None of you truly believes, until he desires for his brother what he desires for himself.” - Prophet, Muhammad

Hinduism: “Do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.” - Mahabharata 5:1517

Buddhism: “Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” - Udana-Vargas 5.18

Judaism: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah. All the rest is commentary.” - Talmud, Shabbat 21a

Divinity in All

When I look at you
I look at God
when I hear the birds
it’s the voice of divinity

aren’t the trees
holy too?
of course it’s true
even the seas

this word has come
to tell you these things
to reflect to you these
dreams

oneness

No lines divide us
we are all in
one image
how can you divide
one family
the Earth is our home
and all who live there
are one body
one soul

in the dreaming
we slip into
the universal room
everyone is there
all the people
out there
are in us
within us

One: The Movie

I found a great documentary last night — One: The Movie — and it happens to be on youtube, so you can watch below. Or you can get the actual DVD here, and show all your friends and family.

[from wikipedia] ONE filmmakers asked 20 questions of religious and spiritual teachers as well as artists, authors, atheists and people on the street. [The film] covers a broad range of spiritual and philosophical themes such as the source of fear, enlightenment, spirit, the meaning of life, compassion, life after death, diversity, the nature of God and Heaven, and religion (including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, Taoism, New Age, New Thought Spirituality, Hare Krishna, Native American Spirituality, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Christian Fundamentalism). ONE also explores contemporary themes of war, conflict, terrorism, peace, global change, social responsibility, and environmental concerns.

The 20 Questions asked of participants:

1. Why is there poverty and suffering in the world?
2. What is the relationship between science and religion?
3. Why are so many people depressed?
4. What are we all so afraid of?
5. When is war justifiable?
6. How would God want us to respond to aggression and terrorism?
7. How does one obtain true peace?
8. What does it mean to live in the present moment?
9. What is our greatest distraction?
10. Is current religion serving its purpose?
11. What happens to you after you die?
12. Describe heaven and how to get there.
13. What is the meaning of life?
14. Describe God.
15. What is the greatest quality humans possess?
16. What is it that prevents people from living to their full potential?
17. Non-verbally, by motion or gesture only, act out what you believe to be the current condition of the world.
18. What is your one wish for the world?
19. What is wisdom and how do we gain it?
20. Are we all One?

Cloudy

This was written as a song, but I like it as a poem, so here are the lyrics…

“Cloudy” by j elijah

each day that you come down
from your cloud
and you see what’s going on
around you
you integrate
the people that you see
you don’t separate
what you see
that you’re one with them
you know this to be
a basic reality

you come down from your cloud
and you see
a crowd around you
bowing down before you
what do you expect to think
except that you
are so wonderful, so wonderful
but aren’t the ones that you see
on their knees
wonderful
wonderful
wonderful as well

in between hypotheses
I see somewhere sneaking
around there
a dream about which
we must be so aware
and that is the one that brings
us together
the one so, so light as a feather
it floats here and there
through all the thousands
of lights there
so bright there
I can’t believe
this is what they see

can you believe anything
when you know what’s
really in there
how can you believe anything
when you know
the truth about what’s
been going on for centuries
can you believe
can you be released
from the chains of
of anything that keeps
you from being
who you are
you feel is real in yourself
but you don’t hurt anyone else, no
just don’t hurt anyone else, no

in between your dreams
there’s another reality
it’s the one that you don’t see
it’s the one in your friends
and your enemies, I said
that you don’t see
is your friends
and your enemies

Alan Watts says we are in chaos!

Now reading a wonderful book — Myth & Religion by Alan Watts. In the opening quote, he says that the current Western religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) do not help people realize that we are all God, and we are all one God, connected to everything that exists. What an overlook! This book is good stuff.

“Western civilization is in a state of chaos. It has lost effective knowledge of man’s true nature and destiny. Neither philosophy nor religion as they are known today do much to give man the consciousness that the deepest center or ‘ground’ of his being is to be found in that eternal reality which is in the West called God.”
- Alan Watts

we are all one

God is all things, all people, as one.

Love is all things, all people, as one.

The earth and all life on it, even the atmosphere and outer space; we are all one.

Love and care for all of this.

It is you as you are it.