Faith and Humanity
Jul. 5th, 2011 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
Now there is the need to wall in and maintain. Now there is an endless sorting through the things of the world that could be mine. Now the attaining. Now the insuring. Now there is possessiveness and jealousy and envy, and the need to protect, and the right to bear arms. Now there is the secret want to get what others have, and the right to sue. This I-ing and My-ing can sicken the strongest soul.
This is the disease that sickens the world, and all human souls – that prevents us from accepting each other just as we are… prevents us from being a true community, even on a local level, let alone a global one. It is a great sadness.
We fight with each other and live with avarice and greed, instead of sharing and helping one another as is right. We believe in the superiority of our way, what we believe… and there is no room to consider the feelings, thoughts, beliefs or the heart of others. It is a weakness, not a strength as many believe.
This creates a line, a gulf between those that have, and those that have not… a wide trench of poverty of heart and soul, not physical but so deep that it separates us almost irrevocably from the sense of the divine that somewhere manages to cling to life within us as a race of beings. It is a source of great shame.
We justify our behaviour with pretentions of morality, of religious or spiritual truth, and economic necessity, caring little for what it speak to of our capacity to love… to actually achieve a moral, spiritual or economic condition.
It is a despair we will carry to our graves… because there are not sufficient individuals prepared to simply open themselves and thirst in the manner of the shore for the ocean, or the heart for all it loves.
The shore thirsts, but does not own the ocean that keeps it soft. So, too, the heart and all it loves.
Now there is the need to wall in and maintain. Now there is an endless sorting through the things of the world that could be mine. Now the attaining. Now the insuring. Now there is possessiveness and jealousy and envy, and the need to protect, and the right to bear arms. Now there is the secret want to get what others have, and the right to sue. This I-ing and My-ing can sicken the strongest soul.
This is the disease that sickens the world, and all human souls – that prevents us from accepting each other just as we are… prevents us from being a true community, even on a local level, let alone a global one. It is a great sadness.
We fight with each other and live with avarice and greed, instead of sharing and helping one another as is right. We believe in the superiority of our way, what we believe… and there is no room to consider the feelings, thoughts, beliefs or the heart of others. It is a weakness, not a strength as many believe.
This creates a line, a gulf between those that have, and those that have not… a wide trench of poverty of heart and soul, not physical but so deep that it separates us almost irrevocably from the sense of the divine that somewhere manages to cling to life within us as a race of beings. It is a source of great shame.
We justify our behaviour with pretentions of morality, of religious or spiritual truth, and economic necessity, caring little for what it speak to of our capacity to love… to actually achieve a moral, spiritual or economic condition.
It is a despair we will carry to our graves… because there are not sufficient individuals prepared to simply open themselves and thirst in the manner of the shore for the ocean, or the heart for all it loves.
