Labels: The Root of Delusion

Whenever you label, characterize or attempt to define anything what you are really doing is deciding what something is. It is inevitable however that any definition you come up with will be in error because whenever you attempt to define anything you are effectively endeavoring to put something which is infinite into a finite box. In this you are deciding not to appreciate the fullness of what the thing of your observation is.

Labeling is what prevents you from seeing the universe around you as but an extension of yourself. You are instead pigeonholing, distorting and dismissing the universe around you as something unconnected to you even though the Reality is, It is You and You are It. When you say this thing over here is this (laundry list of qualities) and that thing over there is that (laundry list of qualities), and as you compare these lists of attributes against each other as well as to the qualities you ascribe to yourself, when these lists don’t exactly match up you learn to see this and that as not only different from each other but different and separate from yourself as well. The failure to recognize the likeness of this and that to yourself is what leads to the delusion of division where rather than having an understanding of diversity as evidence of the One Life’s infiniteness; you mistake diversity to be proof of life’s variance.

All is One. This is the understanding, as it becomes better comprehended and accepted by you, which serves to further your spiritual awakening, increase your spiritual enlightenment, develop your self realization and all other like phrases used to express the idea of seeing Reality as It (truly) Is.

“(The All) appears to us in manifold aspects, and according to the aspects under which it appears, we may give it different names.” – Clara Jessup Bloomfield-Moore. But a name should not be a label. No assumptions or preconception should accompany what a thing is called. To come to see things as they truly are you must make it a practice to view all things as if you never seen them before.