Unfold Your Wings and Watch Life Take Off

Part 3 - Your Healing

Your Healing From Separation

Divinity can be experienced in everyday life. This chapter has covered the healing of a number of undesirable tendencies. When these undesirable tendencies are evident in our lives we are separate. As we heal these tendencies we begin to merge.

By slowly merging the divine qualities of love, peace and joy prevail. Life takes on a new transcendent quality. We experience the pain of others as our own, because we feel the oneness of life. We perceive the exquisite sensitivity of nature. There is a newfound innocence, wonder and simplicity. In a strange way we remember this state from long ago. It is similar to how we experienced life in early childhood. This childlike state has returned but to a fully mature adult, who is acting responsibly to help heal a world community in need and pain. This everyday world of pain, trauma and stress is taken by most to be the real world, but to the healed person it seems more like a dream world.

I remember being in a supermarket recently. I was helping my mother with her shopping. I pushed the trolley around the supermarket. Other trolleys whizzed past pushed by frantic shoppers, their faces full of stress. Glitter and bright garish colours were everywhere. Insipid canned music was playing in the background. As I stood at the checkout watching these busy shoppers being processed, I felt that I was in a world that belonged to me, but that had no hold over me. It actually felt like a dream world.

This is the sense in which the healed person can feel he is in the world, but not of it. By healing our preoccupations with wealth, sex, violence and other obsessive tendencies, we cease to be caught in the drama of life. Yet this dramatic world, fuelled by materialism, lust and anger is our world. We are joined to it by our compassion. We are hurt when people behave insensitively or even violently, enslaving others or damaging the planet, for we are all One.

The healing of our separation is realised when we are able to escape from our world of pain, anger and grief to the still lake and unite with the beautiful radiant swan that lives within.

Envoi

The Wholeness of Life,
Everyday I long to merge with you.

The ocean wave is your heartbeat.
The wind in the trees is your music.
The frost on the grass is your jewellery.

I have great wealth of which others know little.
I have great joy of which others know less.
I have great peace, which others do not know.

To be fully merged is to be fully free,
And I am healed of my separation.