Colossians 1:20 · World English Bible
and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
Separation is the great illusion, the belief that you are a fragment cut off from the whole. All suffering grows from it.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
Separation is the great illusion, the belief that you are a fragment cut off from the whole. All suffering grows from it. It is undone not by thinking your way to unity but by a kind of dying, the surrender of the small separate self the cross has always stood for.
When that false center gives way, the division falls apart. Earth and heaven, the self you defended and the God you longed for, are one undivided whole. Peace is not something added. It is what remains when the sense of separateness dies and the wholeness that was always there is recognized.
Ego v. Being lens
What are you still holding apart from yourself, and what would it cost to let it back in?
Yield and you are whole. What refuses to bend breaks, and what lets go of its own importance finds nothing left to defend.
Suffering grows from clinging to a separate self. When that grasping relaxes, the division it was protecting turns out never to have existed.
Die before you die, the Sufis say, meaning let the small defended self go now, and find yourself part of everything you thought you were apart from.
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Ego v. Being