You -- The One and Only

"There is no other, only you at war."

-- Alice Walker

Where is the seat of your identity? Is it in your body? Do you think, consciously or subconsciously, this body is who I am?

Or maybe you've narrowed your identity down even further. Maybe you're really smart, and so you believe that you are your brain. Sort of like a post modern Descartes -- you think therefore you am.

Or maybe your identity has to do with your beauty or your profession or your family or your possessions or your disease.

No matter. Anytime you have created a limited identity for yourself, you have also created the other. The other is whatever you aren't. The other is whatever is outside of your body, or not in your realm of thought, or in someway different from you as you define yourself.

The thing is, all definitions of the self are pure fiction, all demarcations between you and other are as unreal as lines on a map. The Universe is one body, one being. A simple, single song -- a true uni-verse. The Earth is one planet, though most of the time we identify with just one small portion of it -- my neighborhood, town, state, or nation. And you see how well limited identification works -- we are always at war with other limited territories.

Today is a great day to begin letting go of the concept of other. It ain't easy. The evidence of your senses, the conditioning of your mind, and the mores of your culture will conspire to keep you stuck in the self versus other dichotomy. But you have stronger ally on your side -- Truth, yeh, the BIG ONE, the one with the capital "T."

No other. Unity. You, the One and only. Welcome to Reality.