Universal Consciousness

Here are some beautiful writings I read a couple of days ago on Universal Consciousness or the Universal Truth.

Love that one who
when you shall cease to be
will not Himself cease to be
That you may become one
who will never cease to be
- By the Persian poet, Abu Said Ibn Abi al-Khair.

I also liked what the same poet has to say about seeking the Essence of understanding...

If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding,
then you are a mine of understanding in the making.
If you live to reach the Essence one day,
then your life itself is an expression of the Essence.
Know that in the final analysis
you are that which you search for.

The Upanishad too talks beautifully of Madhu-Vidya, or the knowledge of the interconnectedness of things...

Madhu-Vidyā is an insight into the nature of things, which reveals that there are no such things as subjects or objects. The fact of experience itself is a repudiation of the phenomenal notion that subjects are cut off from objects, as if the one has no connection with the other. If there has been a gulf of difference, unbridgeable, between the experiencing consciousness and the object outside, there would be no such thing as experience at all. The great revelation of the sage Dadhyaṅṅ Ātharvaṇa is that the Adhyātma (everything that is inside) and the Adhibhūta (everything that is outside in the world) are linked together by the Adhidaiva (everything that is transcendent), and a transcendent Divine Presence connects the phenomenal subject and the phenomenal object, through an invisible force, so that we have a universe of interrelated particulars, one entering the other, one merging into the other, one coalescing with the other like the waves in the ocean, and not the universe we see with our eyes, as a house divided against itself.

As all the spokes
are held together in the hub of a wheel
Just so in this soul
all things, all Gods,
all worlds, all breathing things
all selves
are held together
- From the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad