From Duality to Unity

"God Writes Straight with Crooked Lines."

Could a universe without a system be imagined? A God without a system?

Write a model for the universe. Try to understand it with your own mind, from your own time frame; the countless variables, parameters, and their interactions. The complexity and uncertainty between input and output… You are sure you understand. Uncertainty exists only where you fail to comprehend.

Now place it into the model; the inputs you’ve chosen to reach the outputs you imagine. From human design to divine design… Step by step… It’s only been 500 years of this modern step. The more certain you are of your inputs, the more surprised you might be by the outputs. Perhaps another 500 years of steps are needed. Another 500 years filled with coincidences and chaos. This is the exploratory step of your time… Otherwise, could a God without a system be imagined?

The best method you know, at best, is induction. For this, you break things apart. For the result you cannot see at the beginning, you divide that result into inputs and try to reach that result with those inputs. Because you are human, you never lose that child within you. The child who wants to take apart an electronic device and put it back together to make it work again… The problem isn’t that you don’t lose that child; the problem is that you approach everything as if it’s a technical issue. To you, everything that seems technically perfect appears to work flawlessly. Yet, things that are not technically perfect can also work flawlessly. The more rigidly you approach matters, the more you focus on the parts alone, the more you overlook the invisible connection between those parts. Then, with the parts you’ve reassembled without knowing that connection, you think you’ve reached the whole. And yet, you remain far from the actual system. We plan our lives as if walking on a straight path, but in reality, we move forward by stumbling and falling; similarly, you break the whole into parts as if it exists in a linear system, and you consider the whole to be merely the sum of its parts.

But the whole is something more than the sum of its parts.

What we find chaotic may contain magnificent patterns.

Movement is random yet interconnected within the whole. Input and output, cause and effect, action and reaction. However, the reactions caused by the results can be greater or smaller than the effects caused by the causes.

The system is interconnected but whole through the flow of random movements.

A slippery ground and a shifting balance…

Still, what is being done is not wrong; it’s just incomplete. Because of the duality within us, we feel the need to see the parts; but we also try to return to the whole. The connections that we neglect between the parts are the missing piece of reaching the whole. Yet even the awareness of this connection comes from the awareness of this incompleteness. Duality is at work.

If we hadn’t divided the whole into parts, we wouldn’t have been able to understand it. Nor would we have realized that the whole we divided at the beginning is different from the whole we reached.

"Every act of creation begins with destruction."

No matter how we look at it, this existence points to incompleteness.

H: "Is mathematics perfect?"

G: "No."

You must be surprised!

As you are surprised like this, the distance between knowing and living begins to frighten you. Doors open from your own circle to the outside; to infinity, to boundlessness… Yet, everything remains still at time.

There is only one path; the only path your mind will eventually reach. Knowledge without love is barren, abandoned land that cannot sustain us. The door to love, however, is possible through loving with knowledge; loving knowledge and loving with knowledge. With the knowledge gained in the search for truth… From duality to unity and harmony…

(From Duality to Unity)