"Something Greater Than Ourselves"

Yesterday, I heard someone speak this familiar phrase:

"I wanted to belong to something greater than myself". 

Frequently, this statement is made about joining the armed forces, a football team, a political campaign, a religious organization, etc.

Although selfishly self-focused, human beings also harbor an innate desire to want to belong to a group of like-minded individuals so that they can lend their efforts to the whole and experience the harmony and brotherhood of a group effort.

"All for One, and One for All".

Where does this powerful urge to "belong/join/incorporate" come from?

The answer becomes clear when we recognize that we, as human beings, are a single body, a single life wave. 

At our deepest core, we are individual Sparks from the same Divine Fire. Cells in a single body.

We have temporarily separated our consciousness from one another to play the game of "Me" and "I" here on Earth.

It is time for us to abandon this game of discord and reassemble as a harmonious  "We".

Deep within, we feel this need to reconnect with one another. But we feel it from an I-centered perspective.

We will have to recognize where this primal urge to "belong" originates from and then abandon the illusion of "Me" and "I" and joyfully return to the "We".

We will then truly experience what it means to belong to something greater than ourselves.

~ g