Unity as our Guide

Returning to the Wholeness of Being

When we recognise that each one of us is a unique expression of the same living essence, the “walls” between & within us begin to fade, and we experience the joyful unity of our shared Being.

Unity is not something we need to create. It is what remains when we stop resisting life and stop trying to make it other than it is. Beneath the noise of the thinking mind, everything—every person, tree, wave, and breath—is already part of one vast living whole. The same awareness that looks through your eyes looks through mine. When we sense this directly, even for a moment, the heart relaxes, and life begins to flow with ease.

As Eckhart Tolle reminds us, “You are not in the universe; you are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.” When we truly realise that, we move from fear into belonging, from striving into allowing. Unity reveals itself as the natural state of being—one that includes every thought, emotion, and form, yet is bound by none.

In The Secret Language of Manifesting by Denise Jarvie, unity is discovered through co-creation—remembering that we are participants in the unfolding of existence itself. This  card deck guide us to awaken the creative soul and recognise that manifestation is not about control, but about aligning with the movement of the whole.

In Soul’s Journey by Rassouli, unity takes the form of divine imagination—the dance between the seen and unseen. His luminous art and mantras remind us that life itself is a creative act, and when we surrender into its current, we are carried by a deeper intelligence that already knows the way.

Unity is not only mystical; it is profoundly human. The Anxious-Avoidant Trap by Annie Tanasugarn shows that healing in relationship begins when we see ourselves and our partners as two expressions of the same longing for connection. In understanding our patterns, we dissolve the illusion of “me versus you,” allowing love to flow more freely.

The same principle extends inward. In The Body-Based Obsessions Workbook by Molly Bradley Schiffer, we learn to meet the body’s fears with compassion, realising that even anxiety is part of the greater wholeness. Likewise, The Pain We Carry Workbook by Natalie Y. Gutierrez invites a collective healing—reclaiming ancestral wisdom and releasing inherited trauma, so that unity can be lived not only within us but between us.

And through Quietly Wild by Alix Klingenberg, we are called back to the earth. Her poems and rituals awaken the timeless truth that we belong to the turning of the seasons, each change a reflection of our own unfolding.

Unity, then, is not a philosophy but a living awareness. It reveals itself when we pause, breathe, and let the moment be enough. In that stillness, everything merges—the ordinary and the sacred, the personal and the universal—into one endless presence moving as life itself.

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Thanks to Jane Ewins for the  wisdom writing & editing with some help from ChatGPT.

Photo: Japanese Garden – Hobart Botanical Gardens. Jane Ewins.