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# One to one
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/one-to-one/
- Published: 2024-11-05T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-08T19:06:30.000Z
- Description: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field…” 🌾
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Presence, TRUE NATURE, Relationships, Quick insight, Poetry, MECHANICS, Identity, Music

D’you know, if ‘1:1’ wasn’t so easy to type—just three keys, two of which are the same—I’d have set up a keyboard shortcut for it by now, because I type it a LOT!

And I’m a little shamefaced to admit, that the other day (can’t remember when, or why; such is often the nature of insight - they’re just ordinary, everyday miracles, aren’t they? ✨) I realised what it meant.

## **1:1**

So innocuous. It looks really obvious, and unambiguous, doesn’t it?

It looks like it’s saying: This is not ONE to MANY (i.e. group-work), it’s YOU and ME.

It’s **1:1**.

But no - it’s not that at all!!

Because YOU + ME = 2, not one, FFS.

🤦🏻‍♂️

When we arrange to meet, the magic happens when we drop the idea of separation (a left-brain creation) and fall into that space of insight.

It’s Rumi’s field:

> *“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field.* 
> *I’ll meet you there.* 
> *When the soul lies down in that grass,* 
> *The world is too full to talk about.* 
> *Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’* 
> *Doesn’t make any sense.”*

It’s presence. (i.e. no distraction by the mind)

It’s experiencing the basic energy of connection; of life itself, ‘heart to heart’, where there is no you and there is no me, there’s just ***this*** (and all the wonder, potential, creativity and insight waiting to spill forth from that place).

It’s oneness meeting itself, oneness.

It’s **1:1**.

Can’t believe it’s taken six years for that to land for me, ha ha!

🥴

Giles

p.s. *‘One to One’* is also the title of a 1986 [Howard Jones album](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy3K8tLhQpE&list=OLAK5uy%5FkAvwPsTjNB7d9d94AQ7nQspI1KOt2c96A&ref=gilespcroft.com)—of course!—that I’m revisiting in light of my new ‘discovery’! 😂

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