Unique Sameness

MAP

How can we be different if we are the same?

It depends on the experience you choose and the level at which you look at it.

Take your blood for example.  You all have blood and yet no two bloods are alike.

Close, but not alike. 

You are uniquely you, yet you are uniquely the same.

Have you ever thought of how unique sameness is?

Contemplate that for awhile.



In a way, your desire to be different is a rebellion of sorts.  If you could even call it a rebellion.

You came from sameness, wholeness, but you are here on purpose to be an expression of the whole.

You came here to be a part that you couldn’t experience as the whole.

But you never really left the whole while you were being an expression.



Take your cultures or religions as an example.

You can totally identify yourself as a Christian person or a Jew or a Hindu but you are you at the same time.

Your prayers, even using the same words and same body positions as everyone else, are not the same.

Do you consider yourself to be apart from everyone else in those moments or are you a part of a larger body.

Observe this the next time you can to see the whole and the part at that same time.

Observe the sameness and difference that is occurring at the same time.



Do you see fights break out in the middle of community prayer because one appeared to be praying differently than another.

I think not.

I suspect it does happen.  After church.  Or the catty remarks through whispers of the “in crowd”.

But that happens afterwards, not during.

Besides, were those passing judgement really in prayer at the time or engaged in something else?

Themselves, perhaps?



When you look around you, you will see a lot more sameness, a lot more attempts to come together, a lot more basic drives causing us to be with one another.

Families, clans, communities, cultures, religions, brotherhoods, nations.

You do not demand everyone to be exactly alike within each grouping.

You celebrate the differences each other brings.

Only when you encounter some one, some thing, some group to be outside of yourself do you make those differences be something bad.



You would do well to see the sameness at the next larger whole, to see a level of sameness you have not accepted but acknowledged before.

Give yourself the larger space in which to celebrate those differences within each other that you do on smaller levels.

Those too are the same.