by Jane Tawel
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What Small Part of Oneness Am I?
By Jane Tawel
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The ray of light is from the Sun,
it is of the Sun,
but it is not the Sun.
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The cloud is in the Sky,
it is of the Sky,
but it is not the Sky.
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I am in Space,
I am of the Space,
but I am not Space.
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I am in Life’s Ocean,
I am not the Ocean,
but I am a small wave.
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I am in God,
I am of God,
but I am not God.
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If I accept the wonderous mystery
of being blind to what lies beyond,
I will be the Light.
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If I let go of my anxious need
to control the weather of my life,
I will be content with being now —
Floating, not digging in and dissipating.
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If I release all my desires
To contain and to enlarge myself,
My Heart will open the cage of my mind
and I will be as One;
Spacious with All.
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If I, with thanks, set learning aside,
And experience God
In the Unknowingness and Love
Of the God of All Creation and All
I will no longer play God —
I will be Christ.
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“Each day, I am looking at my small self as dead
And yet I AM — more alive than ever.
The anxious, painful, over-thinking self is slowly decaying.
I realize the tiny me is no longer only who I AM.
But instead, Suffering becomes Love and Joy
in the small self that is not myself
But a resurrected Savior of Goodness and Peace”**
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Choose the name you wish to be crucified with –
Be it Krishna, Buddha, or as was chosen for me —
The Christ.
Die to all that is in you that does not save.
Die to all that is within you that does not heal.
Die to all that is in you that does not forgive.
Die to all that is in you that is not at peace.
Live to all that is Love.
Live to only that which is Love.
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Let the clouds disperse
and release into the vast mystery
of The Sky.
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Let the ray of Light dissipate
as it touches the Earth
warming others
and new things will grow.
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Let the wave resolve back into the Ocean
and come and go
We know not from where or where to
But always at one with the Ocean,
Alive forever in the One.
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Live, and move and have your being
in God.
And be your True Spacious Self
Be the Light of “just as I AM”*
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What small part am I
in the ever-moving parts
of this planet’s short life?
In Light of Eternity,
What is Yesterday? Tomorrow? Today?
I am, at heart,
as God — beyond understanding.
But God is even beyond words.
Let me not try to understand
myself or others;
Just as I can never theologize about God.
Let my peace pass my understanding, O God.
You know all my innermost parts.
Create in me a new heart, O God.***
Hold me in the palm of Your Fatherly Hand.
Cradle me in the Womb of Your Motherly Love.
Let me Be no longer a small part,
But Be at One with All Beings;
Be at One with all Beingness;
and Be at One with You.
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© Jane Tawel, 2025
**My paraphrase of Galatians 2:20
***Psalm 51:10
*”Just As I Am, without One Plea” by Charlotte Elliot
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