Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Some random thoughts about our place in this world

All this talk about race...
white people arresting the black
black people resenting the whites
white, black, black, white, green, yellow, pink
aren't we all children of one DNA strand?
Is your X blacker than mine?
Is my Y somehow less colorful than yours?

All this talk about religion...
does your god love less
or hate more?

All this talk about politics...
since when is an elephant more noble than an ass?
When did we start letting donkeys and elephants think for us?
Oh what an ass we have become!

We fight phantasmal enemies wildly thrashing about in a stupefied panic beating away ghosts of religion and apparitions of nationalism until we are left mere shadows of humanity who have forgotten how to breath the fresh air of Life.

Have we not evolved past these insignificant separations that we choose to honor as truth? Color, race, religion, politics...all so finite in the light of the real truth which is that we are all mere specs of light in the infinite history of Being. We can choose to shine a brilliantly as we can for the smidgen that we exist or allow our lights to be squelched by pride and greed.

History will no more remember our petty quabbles for which we so willingly died and so expeditiously hated anymore than it remembers the senseless reasons why cavemen beat each other with blunt instruments...all that will be left will be the stains of our ignorance.

Let's remember the hundreds, thousands, millions...billions who have walked these hallowed moments before us...who have filled these scared halls of time with laughter, tears, joy and leave behind a legacy of light.

Live
Love
Think clearly
Honor each other