EIGHTH PRINCIPLE

Unity Is.

All Creation participates in the same profound reality, whose origin is found in God.

Although every being possesses a unique and unrepeatable identity, nothing exists completely separate from the rest.

We are all connected through Love, through Life, and through the Mystery that sustains us.

We are all One, and one with the One.

Unity does not erase diversity; it makes diversity possible.

Every being, every people, every culture, every experience, and every form of life contributes a unique expression to the wholeness of Creation.

To recognize Unity is to learn to contemplate God within Creation, Creation within every being, and every being as part of one universal family.

Brother/Sister: We are all One, and one with the One.

This does not mean that we are all identical.

It does not mean that differences disappear.

It means that our differences exist within a deeper Unity.

It is like a tree:

The roots are not the branches.
The branches are not the leaves.
The leaves are not the fruit.
And yet, everything belongs to the same tree.

Unity Is.

Because after God, Creation, the human being, Love, Service, the Path, and Presence… there naturally arises the understanding that nothing is truly separate.

“We are all right, and we are all wrong.”

Because perhaps Unity does not erase differences.

It embraces them within something greater.

We are all One, and one with the One.