When I perform a wedding ceremony, the image I invoke is of a triangle
formed by the two partners and this third force, which is the shared
love that unites and surrounds them both. In the yoga of relationship,
two people come together to find that shared love but continue to dance
as two. In that union, both people are separate and yet not separate.
Their relationship feeds both their unique individuality and their unity
of consciousness.
Love can open the way to surrendering into oneness. It gets
extraordinarily beautiful when there’s no more “me” and “you,” and it
becomes just “us.” Taken to a deeper level, when compassion is fully
developed, you are not looking at others as “them.” You’re listening and
experiencing and letting that intuitive part of you merge with the
other person, and you’re feeling their pain or joy or hope or fear in
yourself. Then it’s no longer “us” and “them”; it’s just “us.” Practice
this in your relationships with others.
- Ram Dass
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