I woke up early at 3:00 a.m. I don't know why, just that I did. I couldn't fall back asleep. I lay there in the silence that only the earliest, or very latest, hours can bring.
In the silence is a connectedness, if we allow it. We feel a sense of peace and oneness and a unity with everyone and everything as love and energy flow through us. The magic is when we give our self to the silence. There's a ripple effect, like dropping a stone into a pond and watching the ever-widening circles.
The more we relax and open our heart to our feelings and quiet the mind, the more we feel the love and peace and oneness. It expands until we're filled with it, surrounded by it, and we become the love and peace and energy of oneness. It's awesome, and the feeling stays the whole day ---I love when that happens.
Hours later, I still sense the interconnectedness. It may seem odd, but I feel the ultimate Truth is, we are all one with the world and everything and everyone in it. There really is no distinction.
With Love and Oneness, the buck stops here ...
How could it be any other way? ;-) I once heard a speaker say, "Why do we say we were born 'into' the world? The truth is we are born 'out of' the world, like a seedling, we sprout from the Earth" (or the cosmos?) You are rare and fortunate to have had this experience of "Unity and Oneness" more than once. Most people who have it at all are lucky to have it once. Next time I wake up at 3 a.m., I'm going to try lying still and silent with a quiet mind and open heart--instead of running off to the bathroom!