Its true-life tale of unity in the face of cultural apartheid and political expediency remains as relevant as ever in these divided times, but it is Asante's talent for making the personal political – and vice versa – that is the real story here.
There was here and there a little knot, and a few stragglers a few yards higher up; but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity, and unity, and life of that one busy highway".
"When the love of unity dwells in a family, there will also be vibrant life.
Whereas modernist cultural responses to the ephemeral character of modern life cling to ideas of unity, postmodernism accepts difference and irreducible conflict in human affairs, and plurality in ways of being and knowing.
How could he have spent his life cultivating unity of body and mind, oneness with all beings and the ability to apprehend reality directly, unmediated by thoughts or concepts or what Zen considered the arch delusion of "the self" — only to be haunted by the feeling that he lacked the most basic unity of all?
Also, "I have not that well-considered attitude towards life which gave a kind of unity to G.B.S.'s worst inconsistencies about art".
Simple awareness, empty of everything, just being, present, gives life vitality, peace, and sense of unity.
Skin reflectance was found to be moderately heritable (h = 0.29 ± 0.07) but strongly positively correlated (rG = 0.956; 0.90 0.98) with the smolt life history, and strongly negatively correlated (rG = −0.92; −0.97 to −0.85) with the mature life history, almost to the point of unity.
If we take time to go within and use tools, we come to a place that is beyond dread and diagnosis, an inner place that we reach by going down our "well" (of experiences, thoughts, emotions) to the rivers where flow images, insights, and a sense of unity with all life.
The principal symptom of this malady is the loss of "the perception [Anschauung] of the true totality, of oneness and life in one unity" (GTU 264/66).
