I realized that from a certain angle, unity, literally seems to be almost opposite the real meaning. It is used to mean 'all together' but you would expect unity means 'all one'. If it was used in this literal sense it would create a feeling not of all being together, and mingling with eachother but of being alone. 'One' does not give the feeling of variety of cultures, feelings, histories, minds etc that is contained it the word 'Unity'. One thing that we like about the word unity is not the feeling of being one and all agreeing on the same thing, but being different and still being together. We like the feeling of working together and learning about eachother.
Here again, as I have said it a previous entry ('Active' February 2007), it shows how humans naturally are happier when they are active; they like the unity in which we learn and work together, not the one in which we just know everything about eachother and all just do everything the exact same way. We like an active Unity. You can also see from this that humans like variety and change. We can not just be all the same and manufactured out of the same factory.
One of the most beautiful things in our dreams of Unity is when we look at all the different things it contains- the animals, poeple, mountains, rivers etc all together. Not a crowd of uniformed living creatures all just standing or doing the same thing, as one. In fact that is one thing we don't like, usually. No one likes infinite repetition of anything, no matter how beautiful it is. We find beauty is new things. Not that we can't find beauty in old things, but the beauty in old things is again a change, from what we have lately been seeing.
A beautiful song of Unity is "It is One" and yet in it we get the feeling and all the different things that we consist of in Unity.
