# 7 – Vision of Unity

Notes from John Main’s Christian Meditation Lectures
Presented by The World Community for Christian Meditation
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Notes compiled By Mary Sargent

The Christian vision is a vision of unity.  Early Christians understood from Jesus that all people are united with Jesus.  It is not an abstract vision.  It is a conscious vision of unity and harmony.

As Christians, we are called to respond to what is.  It is a call of deep personal joy.  Each one of us is brought to fulfillment.  It is only in this divine cosmic union that we finally become ourselves.

The great task which is given to each of us is to grow up; to find ourselves beyond ourselves and in union with all.  We learn to see with our own eyes, hear with our own ears, and love with our own hearts.  Going beyond all dividedness, we transcend barriers that separate us from other and from God.

We are summons to a fundamental simplicity – to learn to be; to be in love; to be in trust; to be in total openness of heart to what is.  To be rooted in what is, we all need
to be humble.  We must renounce power and force, trusting in the power of Christ – the power of pure love.  The power to truly know ourselves, to love ourselves, to know others, to love others;  to be known and to be loved.  This power is to be found in our own hearts. The only condition is to seek it above all things- beyond all compromise, timidity and fear.

Will we be real?  Will we respond to what is, or stay asleep in a world of fear and illusion?  The call is to be the unique, loveable person God has created us to be; wholly real, completely free with liberty of spirit.