I Am You
The practical difference this discovery makes to your relationships is immense and cumulative. In fact, what it comes to is that you aren’t ‘related’ in any way to anyone: you are that one.
In contrast to the self-regarding and sentimental and very choosy love (so-called) much cultivated on Earth, this is the true love of Heaven, and it is love of all. Here, undiscriminating love is one’s very Nature.
When I really attend, when I’m honest with myself, I find it impossible to wash my hands of the wickedest or stupidest or most contemptible or saddest creature in the world.
It is not a case of, “There, but for the grace of God, go I” but of “There go I — into the prison cell, into the psychiatric ward, on to the scaffold, no less than happier places” — for the simply but truly devastating reason that Who I really, really am is what you and all others really, realy are.
From: Open to the Source, by Douglas Harding. Copyright 2005 by Richard Lang (Editor). Reprinted by permission. www.headless.org
