A Journey Back to Humility – Part 1 : Deference to what IS … ( 09 / 07 / 14 )
A Journey Back to Humility – Part 1 : Deference to what IS … ( 09 / 07 / 14 )
The first stage of knowing real Peace is awakening to the simple reality of our innate & irrevocable Oneness ... The first stage of awakening to the reality of our innate & irrevocable Oneness is setting aside our beliefs & convictions & " knowledge " -- even if just for an instant – in order to open our minds in Humility ; in order to consider a Universe far grander , a life far more scintillating , and an awareness thereof far more priceless than anything we have heretofore imagined .
And the first step into that necessary humbleness is the choice to see -- to truly SEE -- that we are anything but alone in our Universe , and that we are very far indeed from becoming the stewards thereof ; that all our conflicts & concerns & worries & wars -- all our debates & dramas & amassings & arguments -- don ' t really mean that much ; that they are certainly not worth fighting over -- and most definitely not worth killing over , much less even hurling mild insult .
Yes , the very first step on the Way to Peace , my Friends , is realizing the uncomfortable Truth that -- despite all our sensible doubts & reasonable enmities & understandable frustrations -- our lives , and indeed everything within them , are not at all about ourselves .
Indeed , the only realization worth having is the one that has us remembering the very simple Truth that our lives are about nothing more or less than how we can harmonize ourselves with all beings both near and far .
" Look again at that image of our Earth ; look again and see it for what it is in the grander scheme of things : a pale blue dot . That ' s here ... That ' s home ... That ' s us . On it everyone you love , everyone you know , everyone you ever heard of , every human being who ever was , lived out their lives . The aggregate of our joy and our suffering , thousands of confident religions , ideologies , and economic doctrines , every hunter and forager , every hero and every coward , every creator and every destroyer of every civilization , every king and every peasant , every young couple in love , every mother and father , hopeful child , inventor and explorer , every teacher of morals and every corrupt politician , ... every saint and every sinner in the history of our species lived here -- on this mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam ." ~ inspired by Carl Sagan
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