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November 2009 
What if we saw the universe as a living thing?
Posted on Apr 20th, 2009
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Naumadd
Naumadd
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 20, 2009:
If each of us saw the universe as a living thing, we would see it and ourselves genuinely for the first time. The simplest path to that point of view is to see and accept the truth - "universe" and "I" are not two - they are the same. They are one. They, in fact, are not "they". Universe is you and YOU are universe self-aware and asking the question.
The living, conscious universe ... is you and, of course, every living consciousness. The question seems to be seeking a universal life and consciousness somehow separate from you, from me, from Earth. If universe is "all that exists", YOU are necessarily the life and consciousness you seek. We humans see the lives and consciousnesses on the planet as "many" but they are all irrevocably tied to one another as "universe". Where is this "many" but in our own minds? Where is "separation", "division", "isolation" but in our own misunderstanding?
Universe - you - ought to ask instead - why do I not already extend "me" to all that is - everywhere, everywhen? Why do I not already embrace all that is "me"? Why do I look to be apart from from that which is inseparable, from that without which I could not and cannot exist? Why do I not already see myself - universe - as "living", as "conscious"?
Why You-niverse, do you divide yourself from yourself? What is it you do not see? What is it you do not understand? What is you will not see or will not understand?
What is it you wait for, what do you need to be genuinely whole?
The living, conscious universe ... is you and, of course, every living consciousness. The question seems to be seeking a universal life and consciousness somehow separate from you, from me, from Earth. If universe is "all that exists", YOU are necessarily the life and consciousness you seek. We humans see the lives and consciousnesses on the planet as "many" but they are all irrevocably tied to one another as "universe". Where is this "many" but in our own minds? Where is "separation", "division", "isolation" but in our own misunderstanding?
Universe - you - ought to ask instead - why do I not already extend "me" to all that is - everywhere, everywhen? Why do I not already embrace all that is "me"? Why do I look to be apart from from that which is inseparable, from that without which I could not and cannot exist? Why do I not already see myself - universe - as "living", as "conscious"?
Why You-niverse, do you divide yourself from yourself? What is it you do not see? What is it you do not understand? What is you will not see or will not understand?
What is it you wait for, what do you need to be genuinely whole?
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From beginning to end, your response to the question is as genuine as “”If each of us saw the universe as a living thing, we would see it and ourselves genuinely for the first time.”
I know I am one to praise both content and skill of your writing, but never let it be doubted I am sincere in that admiration.
Respectfully~