Refusing To Separate My Consciousness From Yours
Truly it is one of the unforeseen pleasures of the 1st-Person life to gaze unabashed into the faces of one’s friends, without feeling or thinking anything in particular, and just see them for what they always were - things for looking at and never for looking out of. This isn’t an unloving state, reducing you to a cardboard cut-out. Quite the reverse; it is a most loving refusal to separate my Consciousness from yours, and it removes the last barrier between us. Liberated from the superstition of plural spirits, we are at last really one. This is the perfect love which casts out fear - the fear inseparable from living in a haunted world. (The Science of the First Person, Douglas Harding)
Douglas Harding is one of my single most favorite free-form mystics. His simple ideas and experiments for looking at what we really are, are always a joy to me. The above is a wonderful description of the simple truth of what it is like to let ourselves actually be ourselves. Looking at that world this way is pure joy and takes the opposite of effort to realize. As Ramana Maharshi often came back to, “Be still, and be as you are.”
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