Wholesome Limericks about Unity

Consumed by the daily enterprise of worldly survival, it’s easy to think of all the things we encounter as friends or foes, subjects or objects, threats or opportunities. To combat this divisive illusion, I’ve composed a handful of limericks about unity to express the intrinsic interconnectedness of all things.

By recognizing this singular bond, we come to understand that we are helping ourselves when we help others. Kindness to oneself and kindness to others are one and the same. And so the need for competition, envy and intolerance melts away.

Not to say that we are all identical and homogenous. Nor should we be. It’s more like a house with a billion windows, where each window offers a different view of the single source of light shining from within.

     Good and Evil
     All things on earth must receive affirmation
     Evil and good are beyond separation
             Let them all run their course
         For we share the same source
     We’re all the result of a single creation

     Going for the One
     Straighten your mizzen and steady your oar
     Set sail for the hub of your centermost core
             Arrive at the middle
             Unravel the riddle
     Return to the One and debark on the shore

     To Bridge the Divide
     Our spirits go swimming like drops in the sea
     While our bodies are tied to point A or point B
             If I had my druthers
             I’d merge all the others
     And close up the gap that divides you from me

     Dreamtime
     By day we see creatures and objects distinct
     Admire the living and mourn the extinct
             But at night we resolve
             As the boundaries dissolve
     To be one with a world in which everything’s linked

     Sum of our Parts
     Picture a puzzle with eight billion pieces
     Sisters and brothers and nephews and nieces
             Separate, however
             Belonging together
     Connect them and see how the kindness increases

     Childhood’s End
     Detach from the source and in some sense your mother
     Later connect with your self in the other
             First there was leaving
             And then there was cleaving
     And now every soul is a sister or brother

     Convergent Evolution
     When envy and fear are decidedly done
     And subject and object are taken as one
             Free from the friction
             And self-contradiction
     Dissolve into everything under the sun

     Many Rivers, One Sea
     Follow the sages who bow to the lamb
     Or leaf through the verses of Omar Khayyam
             Transcend the banal
             As you merge with the All
     The timeless and boundless and single “I Am”

     Timeless Clarity
     Deep in the recess of non-dual thinking
     With vision so clear that there’s no need for blinking
             The time standing still
             Like a rock on a hill
     And the present expands while the future is shrinking

Further Reading

If you liked these limericks about unity, you’ll be sure to enjoy:

• Limericks about Metaphysics
• Limericks about the Bhagavad Gita
• Limericks about Existentialism
• What is a limerick?