UNITIVE SEEING
Fr. Rohr oftentimes speaks of our human tendency to divide the field. We have a tendency to create divisions over just about everything, categorizing things as either right or wrong or some other similar classification. The ego needs to manufacture as many points of duality as possible in order to keep itself fed, to convince itself of its realness. This is why we always find ourselves on the right side of every division we create. This isn't surprising, since self-reflexive consciousness is itself a division. The self-reflexive mind sees itself as separate from its reality and categorizes that reality accordingly. Operating from that standpoint, it becomes clear that ordinary awareness creates division as an ontological need.
Once one begins to see reality from the spiritual perception of integration, the world of possessions, achievements, respect, status, and power has less and less draw. It's no longer regarded as a valid way of doing life. It's not surprising that cultures who adopt a wisdom tradition of contemplation are usually more communal in nature. Once a person sees God, nature, others, and the self as being effectively One, the normal ways of thinking fall away. Certainly, there will continue to be a need for groupings and differentiation, but such division will always proceed from an inner-connectivity that precedes and is more foundational than the resulting dichotomy. As such, differences are approached from a larger, unitive, and loving place, rather than as mechanisms of weighing and measuring. When we can say we and the Father are one, based on an experiential knowing of God's unconditional love, the sense of endangerment from God, others, and the larger world dissolves. Such an operative stance broadens a person's frame of reference beyond themselves, their opinions, and their need to be right.