who was known to the Greeks as " Ἔρος, ὃς κάλλιστος ἐν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι, λυσιμελής, πάντων δὲ θεῶν πάντων τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων δάμναται ἐν στήθεσσι νόον καὶ ἐπίφρονα βουλήν" = "Love, fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them."
This is Love creating the Universe.
This is Love, the Greatest Existing Power.
(translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White in Hesiod. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. )
… God of Gods said:
“Will not, if you do well, you be accepted
and,
if not you do well, at the door wrongdoing lies, and
for you, its craving, but you can rule over it.”
- Torah, Genesis 4:7 (oral tradition, c. 3,500 years ago) ...
so understanding ...
“If you open yourself to the Dao
[the ineffable way of the universe and the energy, Chi/Qi, within it],
the Dao and you will become one.
If you open yourself to Virtue, then you can become virtuous.
If you open yourself to loss, then you will become lost.”
– Tao Te Ching, Chapter 23, trans. J. H. McDonald (1600 BC) ...
for Man himself is the maker of his own destiny and must choose his own path to achieve enlightenment [release from the cycle of rebirth] – Buddhism (400 - 500 BC) ...
which is attainable through walking in life loving others as one’s own self, so becoming a "man of light", a "peacemaker"
- Instruction of Yeshua as given in the Book of Matthew, Chapter 5 of, the New Testament (Judaism, pre-Christianity, circa 30 AD) ...
and finding when we ...
“put ourselves in the place of the man with whom we are angry;
we are often unwilling to bear what we would have been willing to inflict”
– Seneca (30-65 AD) ...
and in searching for answers, finding ...
" ... to assume the existence of an unperceivable being … does not facilitate understanding the orderliness we find in the perceivable world."
– Albert Einstein, answering the question "What is God?", July 15, 1953 ...
so seeing along all paths however walked, that ...
“Nonviolence […] has meant that we are no longer afraid and cowed […]
that we do not want to instill fear in others or into the society of which we are a part
[… but] seeks to share in the self-liberation of all the people.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (bites from Nobel Peace Prize speech, 1964) ...
for ...
“[…] ultimately, we are connected. Totally connected.
And not only with people, but with the life.
We’re totally connected with life.
And everything relates to everything else. […]
I know we’re all connected.
I know our differences don’t matter that much.
But again, it’s knowing it with the brain and not the heart.”
– Frank White, on the Overview Effect (1987) ...
because ...
“when [humans] have learned to live as real human beings without disturbing others, [we] can live peacefully without any fear in [our] hearts.”
- Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera, First Buddhist Chief High Priest of Malaysia (1963-2006) ...
and ...
“with love, honor, and respect for every living thing in the universe, separation ceases,
and we all become One Being singing the One Song”
– Prince, One Song monologue (late 1999) ...
and now once more we are knowing the ancient unchanging Truth heard many different ways throughout the time of humans:
“Our lives are not our own.
From womb to tomb we are bound to other… past and present and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
– Cloud Atlas, movie (2012).
ONE
ONEGodSHeIt
God, however you may wish to call It/Her/Him,
IS LOVE
IN WHICH WE ARE ALL ONE,
IN PEACE WITH SELF AND WORLD,
IF WE EACH CHOSE TO CONDUCT OUR SELF.
I have not learnt that which is not.
There are many, many guidances of the Knowledge to conduct your Self as a connected, Beloved life within our world that are not listed above. There are Guidances from scientists like Hawking, Michio Kaku, Ted Nelson to guidances within books, movies, TV series, to corporations, non-profits, communities, cultures, individuals, animals, weather, and plants, among others, in our world repeating endlessly.
Through these Guidances, Knowledge is connected and intertwingled*.
Guidances are also found within many religions, which are constructed using Knowledge as perceived by those who constructed them. Some of these religious guidances are clear,
others are not so clear.
In most religions, it is known the world cannot not survive as a
singular singularity for it lives in plural singularity**
as do we, the people of the world.
For most religions, it is understood there is not one singular "correct" religious guidance that supersedes all others for all people.
For most religions, it is understood the individual finds the guidance of their own choice, and guidance is simply assistance to understand Knowledge of LOVE.
This choice creates Love.
LOVE creates choice.
Thus, if you quiet your Self, listen to the space between sounds, you will hear to see how to conduct your Self. Then, when you are conducting your Self, you will see to know and know to do.
You will have Guidance.
Peace in Purple.
* "EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED. In an important sense there are no "subjects" at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross-connections among the myriad topics of this world simply cannot be divided up neatly." -Ted Nelson, Computer LIB/Dream Machines (1974/1987).
** many (plural) singular lives dependent and interdependent upon each other for life. - LyssiSue, The Ladder/The Rungs (2018)
Often people say there is a mystery to life.
Life is only as mysterious as we make it for its complexity is its simplicity.
In the human quest to avoid death for fear of death, we have sought to control the world around us. The means of control have changed, but the ancient old fear driving the need for control has not changed. We are no closer to resolving our fear than we are to living eternally. We birth. We love. We kill. We cry. We laugh. We struggle. We succeed. We die. Every living thing on this planet exists in this pattern. Not just us, the humans. Despite this, we still to not see in the world around us, nor the repeated message which is ...
ALL IS CONNECTED.
We humans fight so hard to avoid seeing oneness is life,
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