Meditation: "Always One-ness"

This morning I recalled a wise truth that a friend once told me: “There is never two-ness, only one-ness”. As I remember the context, I think she was offering that as a remedy for any problem I might be faced with – any apparent obstacle in my path or threat to my well-being. All I have to do, she was saying, is quietly remind myself that, in reality, there’s no problem “over there” confronting me “over here”. There never is. In every seemingly discordant situation, there is always only one-ness: the infinite and harmonious Universe doing its ceaseless dance. The trouble is, this one-ness is often very hard to see and accept. For some reason, I am exceedingly attracted to the belief in two-ness, and I can easily spend whole days lost in the nightmare that I am one, separate, frail, and vulnerable entity in a terrifyingly threatening world. When I am in this strange dream-state, it’s no wonder that I seem to be surrounded by threatening forces. However, I am hopeful that today – a mild, sunny spring day –will be different. Today I hope to hold carefully in thought the truth my friend told me, that there is never two-ness, but always one-ness. Everything I see or hear or experience in any way is in me, and I am in them (to paraphrase Jesus). There are no problems, obstacles, or threats – just a smooth and graceful and perfect dance.