A profound realization about how we are all one - every emotion we feel toward others is actually a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
Everything is Connected
Let me prove to you that everything is connected - that you exist in everything, and everything exists in you.
I remember the day I first realized this. I was younger and didn't want to go to school (which happened most days, honestly). Instead of going to class, I decided to take a walk in nature while my parents thought I was at school.
I vividly remember how I looked at the flowers and plants that day. There was one moment when I saw how all the flowers and plants were moving, shifting their faces toward the sun. In that moment, something incredible happened in my body - I recognized myself inside the flowers. I saw myself in them.
This realization changed everything: Every single time you felt love in your life toward someone or something else - whether a pet, a person, or a place - it was you loving yourself. And every time you felt resentment, it was you feeling resentment toward yourself.
Have you ever gotten mad while driving? People who get angry about other drivers' behavior usually do so because they recognize that same behavior in themselves. Every hate is self-hatred. Every love is self-love.
The Physics of Connection
When you examine a rock under a microscope, you see that most of it is empty space. But what isn't empty is constantly moving - electrons, molecules, everything in constant motion. Yet the rock appears unchanged.
The same is true for us and our entire universe. Everything is constantly moving, but nothing is really changing. Energy just shifts to different forms of energy. Materials compost into different materials.
We are one - like a rock together, even though we're constantly moving. We're all part of something infinitely bigger and infinitely smaller. This isn't mystical thinking - this is physics.
Everything is connected, not just because your movement causes another movement, but because you are one with your friend, one with the tree in front of you, one with the sand, even with the oil. Same molecules, same electrons, and even the stuff we can't measure, see, or feel - everything is connected, everything is one. Just different faces, different appearances, but all one.
The Revolutionary Question
If we base our foundation on this realization, we can ask: How can I resent something if that something is me? How can I hate something if what I hate is me? How can I be angry if everything is me?
Love as Recognition
If you want a mirror for your emotions, feel what you feel toward others. It's easier to love a dog than a cat because dogs seem more similar to us. But when you have a cat, you can fall in love with them too. Some people even love snakes - dangerous creatures very different from us.
The fact that people can love flies, insects, or the most different creatures says they recognize themselves in them. This love they feel is just a reflection of their love for themselves.
Why do you love your baby? Because they look just like you. It's easy to find yourself in any baby because all babies are so similar to us.
The Beautiful Opportunity
Now every unpleasant emotion becomes exciting for me - it's a chance to explore. Every time I think something unpleasant is outside myself, I remember it's actually inside myself. This is an amazing opportunity.
Every unpleasant emotion is an amazing opportunity to explore myself further, to heal, to love, to let go, to release tension, to connect.
That's the real shift - connecting to yourself through experiences you have with others."