Daily Question, April 10 What might it mean to live life from the knowledge that we are all from the same source? 36 Reflections Share Click here to cancel reply.Please log in or Create a Profile to post a comment. Notify me when someone replies to my comment via e-mail. Shalini2 months agoShaliniTo see others with compassion and grace and less judgement. 0 Reply Ose2 months agoOseThen you are my brother and my sister, no matter what. No basic feeling of separation. Peace and Love prevails then all over. Paradise now, so to speak! 1 Reply sparrow2 months agosparrowI do, mostly. The only time i need reminding is when I come up against conflict, and then conflict reminds me. 1 Reply Malag2 months agoMalagIt allows some humility to emerge in me. I spent a chunk of my life thinking I am different, better, smarter alternating with its bedfellow: the thought that I am not worthy. It took me a while to realise that we are all ultimately cut from the same cloth. So any differences are the accidents of birth, nurture and what life throws at us. Entitlement then goes out the window. If people didn’t feel so entitled (me included) the world would be a safer and more just place. 1 Reply Maeve2 months agoMaeveNot sure that it is life changing for me to contemplate this. Maybe at some point, when I am more enlightened… However, it is a reminder that we are all born as helpless babies, no matter our station in life, we all have human needs, and will all die. 2 Reply Mica2 months agoMicaThanks, Maeve, for your honest answer. 1 Reply Dusty Su2 months agoDusty SuWhen you hurt, I hurt. When you are happy, safe, recognized, so too am I. 2 Reply Kristi2 months agoKristiTo recognize that we are all human and we all have the same basic needs. We all should be treated equally and like we matter. The mental health of all would be much improved! 1 Reply Toni2 months agoToniTo love our neighbor as our self, not instead or or better than but with equal concern and respect. 3 Reply Don Jones2 months agoDon JonesIt means living a life based on seeing things as they really are. 2 Reply Jenn2 months agoJennIdeally we could all co-exist peacefully amongst each other and also see ourselves as whole and be there to support one and other more. Keeping this at the forefront of our perspective would allow us to be more accepting of each other’s differences because at the end of the day we are more similar than not. 2 Reply Cathie2 months agoCathieThough I believe this to be true, living that truth is sometimes difficult. I just read something that feels to fit if one believes that we are all from the same source… “I don’t have to agree with everything you say, but I should at least attempt to understand it – for the opposite of mutual understanding is quite simply war” – Ken Wilbur 4 Reply John Tamminga2 months agoJohn TammingaThis was a powerful contemplation for me. All are family, in the same boat together, hang in there for each other over the long haul in a “Good Shepard” way, connected thru helpful and not helpful ripples of words/deeds. Other meaning but these are the first ones to come to mind. 2 Reply Craig K2 months agoCraig KIt would remind us that all human beings are brothers and sisters. We are all the same. It might bring more unity and peace. Less division. Less looking at people perceived “not the same” as “other”. If we lived life from the knowledge that we are all from one source, we would see no one as a stranger- just a friend that we have not met yet! We could say “you are a part of me”. A fine ideal to strive for, I think. 6 Reply Linda2 months agoLindaWhile we may have all come from the same source we are not the same. We make choices throughout our lifetimes that take us down different paths. Some choose well, many do not. Many have no choice at all. 3 Reply Carol2 months agoCarolI’ve believe that Creation is One and is on going and hopefully, evolutionary but I always remind myself that though life has one source, we are not all born into the same circumstances. A couple of poems by Danusha Lameris come to mind: “Nothing Wants to Suffer” and “Small Kindnesses.” Google her. It’s worth your time. 5 Reply Malag2 months agoMalagThanks Carol these poems resonate. I love getting poetry recommendations of a calibre like this. 1 Reply Mica2 months agoMicaDifferent circumstances – Thank you, Carol – that’s always good to remember, isn’t it? I got this in an email today: Answer to Does being White simply mean you identify as White and most people see you as White? Is that all there is to it? by Lee Thé https://www.quora.com/Does-being-White-simply-mean-you-identify-as-White-and-most-people-see-you-as-White-Is-that-all-there-is-to-it/answer/Lee-Th%C3%A9?ch=99&share=3e04a363&srid=s2CW 1 Reply Ryan2 months agoRyanIt might mean, strengthening of the faith in the cosmic connectedness of all things. It might mean, that compassion & empathy to all things is expressed much more freely by all. 4 Reply SK2 months agoSKIt would mean a collective sigh of relief that there is hope for humanity. No more ‘Youinverse” life centered on limited knowledge and exaggerated egos. it would mean that at last we see God in every face we encounter. 8 Reply Javier Visionquest2 months agoJavier VisionquestPerhaps the term Youniverse is misinterpreted, SK. It’s meant to explain the shared, more general, impersonal, and collective characteristics of our experience; where the divisions between what we think of as the ego identity’s “I” and everything else in the context of time and space are virtually erased. We perceive the universe, as it were, is some vast space “out there”, where the Youinverse is a state of being. 2 Reply Javier Visionquest2 months agoJavier VisionquestYes, I’ve been on to the Youniverse’s “little secret” for decades and have lived every day accordingly despite the objective evidence of isolation within a physical form and cultural bias toward “rugged individuality” and self aggrandizement. I still suffer disagreements, breakdowns, and all imaginable quandaries but I’m confident that these minor and subjective differences are an important aspect to our live’s purpose. Apparently, the same basic energetic misunderstanding that c...Yes, I’ve been on to the Youniverse’s “little secret” for decades and have lived every day accordingly despite the objective evidence of isolation within a physical form and cultural bias toward “rugged individuality” and self aggrandizement. I still suffer disagreements, breakdowns, and all imaginable quandaries but I’m confident that these minor and subjective differences are an important aspect to our live’s purpose. Apparently, the same basic energetic misunderstanding that creates a perception of space through ego identification and duality would naturally separate us from the experience of simultaneous oneness and unity. Every possibility there ever was and could ever be would happen at once: Eternity Read More2 Reply Lioness2 months agoLionessNo hate or divisions, simply love and respect for each other no matter our differences. 4 Reply Patricia2 months agoPatriciaThere is no “us” and “them”…. 10 Reply 1 2 Next » My Private Gratitude Journal Write an entry in your private gratefulness journal Get Started This site is brought to you by A Network for Grateful Living, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are fully tax deductible in the U.S.A. DONATE https://gratefulness.org/content/uploads/2015/03/GX-Gold-Participant-L.png Community Engagement Guidelines Privacy Policy [email protected] Connect with us on Social Media: © 2000 - 2021, A Network for Grateful Living Website by Briteweb
