Becoming fully Human … (09/09/14)
Being fully human on this planet Earth requires being willing to take a full step away from individual heritage and personal comfort zones and then to notice — to truly and deeply and purely notice — our world and ALL the people in it … It does not mean noticing YOUR world; It means noticing THE world … It means being calmly conscious of the fact that you — and your friends, and your gender, and your race, and your religion, and your country — are NOT the center of the Universe … It is instead the recognition that our Earth is made up of highly diverse people with remarkably similar needs — remarkably similar fears, remarkably similar desires, remarkably similar responsibilities, and remarkably similar dreams … To be fully human on this planet Earth is the willingness to openly & humbly & intimately connect with ALL the people you encounter each day — indeed, with all fellow sentient beings all over the world; fully realizing the patent Truth that the choices you make each day affect them directly, just as the choices they make directly affect you … Being fully human is being fully awake … It is noticing that ALL the residents of the entire world are your Family, and then acting accordingly.
AMEN … Let it be so.
(inspired by Holly Sprink)
“Beneath the armor of skin … and bone … and mind,
most of our colors are amazingly the same.” ~ Aberjhani
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