When one realizes that one is the universe

When one realizes that one is the universe, complete and at one with All That Is, forever without end, no further suffering is possible.


From: “Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man” (2008), About the Author, p. 438


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The incredible beauty of all things shone forth in all their perfection, and where the world saw ugliness, there was only timeless beauty. 

This spiritual love suffused all perception, and all boundaries between here and there, or then and now, and separation disappeared. 

 During the years spent in inner silence, the strength of the Presence grew.

 Life was no longer personal; a personal will no longer existed. 

The personal 'I' had become an instrument of the Infinite Presence and went about and did as it was willed.

 People felt an extraordinary peace in the aura of that Presence. 

Seekers sought answers but as there was no longer any such individual as David, they were actually finessing answers from their own Self, which was not different from mine.

 From each person the same Self shone forth from their eyes.


The miraculous happened, beyond ordinary comprehension.

 Many chronic maladies from which the body had suffered for years disappeared; eyesight spontaneously normalized, and there was no longer a need for the lifetime bifocals.


Occasionally, an exquisitely blissful energy, an Infinite Love, would suddenly begin to radiate from the heart toward the scene of some calamity.

 Once, while driving on a highway, this exquisite energy began to beam out of the chest. As the car rounded a bend, there was an auto accident; the wheels of the overturned car were still spinning. The energy passed with great intensity into the occupants of the car and then stopped of its own accord. Another time, while I was walking on the streets of a strange city, the energy started to flow down the block ahead and arrived at the scene of an incipient gang fight. The combatants fell back and began to laugh, and again, the energy stopped.


Profound changes of perception came without warning in improbable circumstances. 

While dining alone at Rothman's on Long Island, the Presence suddenly intensified until every thing and every person, which had appeared as separate in ordinary perception, melted into a timeless universality and oneness.

 In the motionless Silence, it became obvious that there are no 'events' or 'things' and that nothing actually 'happens' because past, present, and future are merely artifacts of perception, as is the illusion of a separate 'I' being subject to birth and death. 

As the limited, false self dissolved into the universal Self of its true origin, there was an ineffable sense of having returned home to a state of absolute peace and relief from all suffering.

 It is only the illusion of individuality that is the origin of all suffering.

 ►When one realizes that one is the universe, complete and at one with All That Is, forever without end, then no further suffering is possible.◄


From: “Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man” (2008), About the Author, pp. 437–438