From the moment we come into this form, we are taught what things are called, what those names represent, and the meaning we should place on them. These names and meanings tend to separate us from each other: they de-unify us. We think of learning as knowing what these things are, and then we study to find out everything about them. In this world we have made, we need these symbols, these names, in order to convey information. And yet, we keep getting glimpses of true communication -- and, if you're like me, you want more! Watching birds fly in formation is but one way we witness a higher form of knowing. Rather than learning more about the illusion of names and notions, I'd rather work toward knowing the reality of a shared unity, by way of understanding the infinite Mind which flows through everything. The knowledge that the confusion we are faced with in daily life is not true creation, this is a key to the door of Truth, wherein peace is found.
“The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and diseases among the human family. It does this by giving names to diseases and by printing long descriptions which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A new name for an ailment affects people like a Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one hastens to get it.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 196:31-5
“This space you see as setting off all things from one another is the means by which the world’s perception is achieved. You see something where nothing is, and see as well nothing where there is unity; a space between all things, between all things and you. Thus do you think that you have given life in separation. By this split you think you are established as a unity which functions with an independent will.”
A Course in Miracles W-184.2:1-4
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