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To Become Human
Mostly what I gained from them was the sense of a clean, beautiful world, simpler in some ways but more advanced in other ways than ours, a world in which humanity and the earth had both come to a safe and relatively happy place. Perhaps most telling was the almost unconscious sense of pride both my visitors had, something they didn’t talk about but which I could feel in their presence. This was not pride in dominating their world but pride in being a loving and contributing part of a larger wholeness. They were proud at being human but they defined their humanity in terms of partnering with the rest of the natural world, not in trying to control it.
David Spangler (An Encounter with Beings from the Future)
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Continue practicing until you see yourself in the cruelest person on Earth, in the child starving, in the political prisoner. Practice until you recognise yourself in everyone in the supermarket, on the street corner, in a concentration camp, on a leaf, in a dewdrop. Meditate until you see yourself in a speck of dust in a distant galaxy. See and listen with the whole of your being.
If you are fully present, the rain of Dharma will water the deepest seeds in your consciousness, and tomorrow, while you are washing the dishes or looking at the blue sky, that seed will spring forth, and love and understanding will appear as a beautiful…
