100 Answers … Question #28 (05/11/13)
100 ANSWERS for 99 QUESTIONS …
Question #28: Has your greatest fear ever come true?
an Answer: Yes … Every night I go to bed and my greatest fear is that I will wake the next morning and humanity will still be suffering from the violent imprint of its tribal past; that we still be clouded by the delusions of nationalism, racism & species-ism; that we will still be justifying the destruction of our enemies, the punishment of our criminals, and the condemnation of those who do not believe as we do.
And yet, then I remember that all these forms of ignorance are nothing more than reverberations of weakness and anxiety,
… and I remember that LOVE always conquers fear,
… and I remember that we are indeed (in-deed!) waking up as a species,
… and then I remember that I can DO SOMETHING every day to pull us just a little bit further from the precipice of extinction upon which we still sway & teeter.
Maybe today’s LOVE will only bring us an inch farther towards our ultimate salvation, and yet I remember that every inch counts.
And then I smile as I rise from bed … and my fear is gone again.
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