Peace and the illusion of separation – 21 insights

Peace and the illusion of separation. 21 insights to open the way to happiness and interbeing.

1. Peace has no opposite. The opposite of war is surrender.
2. Throughout creation, separation is only made possible through the fact of unity.
3. Separation is the opposite of connectedness. Unity has no opposite.
4. To stand alone is to begin to allow the undamaged unity that includes all that can be perceived, just through the act of perception.
5. Often, when we believe we have separated from another, the story of togetherness is just beginning to deepen.
6. Nothing in creation exists independently of anything else.
7. Just as pleasure has no meaning without pain, the individual “I” has no context without the collective “I”.
8. Peace cannot be won, achieved, made or created. It is Peace itself that wins, achieves, creates and makes all that we are.
9. Peace has as many vibrations, notes, chords, expressions and flavours as creation itself.
10. When peace meets peace, there is an empowerment and expansion.
11. Inner peace is not the end-point. There is always this awesome, overpowering, all-powerful peace that erases the line between inner and outer in movements of pure grace.
12. Even though we know that we never exist in isolation, not in our bodies, our emotions, our hearts, our minds, even in our very consciousness. Yet still, we act as if we are separate. Why?
13. In living we often hear words of love. In death, we say “rest in peace”.
14. Peace is the backdrop to all creation and love flows through all divisions of the one into the manifold. Peace and love dance together in an orchestra of creative unity.
15. Do not believe you can separate from your enemies. Emotion, especially when it is replaced, will tie you together for lifetimes.
16. To reject the “other” is to affirm the “other”. Only when you allow the other deeply into the gut of all you are will you reunite with the peace which is always here.
17. If needed, humanity will destroy itself in order to expose the ever present peace that it never lost.
18. Love seduces, heals and invites the other home to the ever-present unity of peace.
19. Between the man and the woman there is war. The war is a complication the great love that is blending the two as one, without negating anything.
20. In any moment of eternity, the eyes of peace can open to see through the illusion of separation.
21. At the heart of the atom there is pure peace. Awareness is in effect of matter. Love is an effect of awareness. Peace is an effect of love. This is the way home to the space we never left.

You can take part in a free, online event on Sunday, 15th March 2015 with Georgi & Bart where we will share an inquiry into peace and nonduality with Grace Bubeck. Click for details.