Unity

A few FB comments added together

We need much less unity than most believe. Most disguise their efforts to protect themselves by tell others (whether that be friends, family, or others in society) how they ought to do things by claiming they are looking for this unity (for country, god, family, business or any number of reasons).

The only unity we need is a very basic common decency that is prioritized above everything else. When we think we need more or demand more unity we inevitably lose the basic common decency in the process.

To elaborate further, unity is an unmistakable fact, which we generally cannot see.  We are each hopelessly inseparable parts of the Greatest Whole and lots of smaller wholes (like marriages, families, friends, community groups including churches, workplaces, etc).

We have a part of us that knows of this unity that people variously call our true self, indwelling spirit, deepest self, soul, part of the Holy Spirit, Christ within, etc.

This unity and the fact we have a part of us that can experience it and thus know it, is the essence of what all great religions where founded. As such the religions teach how to find, experience and live from (collectively integrate) this part of us that can experience and thus know this Unity and a little of the Greatest Whole or Entirety.

However, over time religions end up getting contorted and used by those with power for their own purposes, most commonly without poor intent. This happens in religious groups and something very similar happens, sometimes with slightly different language and concepts in most other groups, whether that be families, workplaces, etc. As mentioned previously this is often done under the guise of unity, but it has the effect of suppressing the part of us that can experience and know actual Unity, which is the floor and basis of everything else.

The most unity that can be demanded without suppressing this part of ourselves is common decency, and ends up being enough if our goal really is what the great religions were founded upon, rather than our own safety and prosperity. Common decency demanded for everyone allows each to find this place within them that knows Unity and act from it, and surprisingly gives no other path.