“Life is like carrying a precious message from the little child you were to the old person you will become. You have to make sure that the message is not lost somewhere along the way.”
What makes us human?
Is there a reason that we have been given our forms of intelligence, of self-awareness, of consciousness?
If our endless greed and power-mania is destroying millions of our fellow human beings and the very planet we live on, are we sane? Does the exponential wealth of the few justify the extreme poverty and misery of the many?
If, in our behaviour, we are far more cruel, rapacious and destructive than any other living creatures, are we superior or inferior?
Are we angels or demons – or both??
Every human was born divine – innocent, loving, happy, peaceful.
We grew ..and the cloak of ego soon veiled our original divinity, no matter that it never ceased to shine deep within us.
Driven by the torments of fear and desire, we lost our basic humanity and ran amok on planet Earth.
Fooled by the mirages of sense-objects, we left the Garden to pursue imaginary happiness in the fiery desert of this world.
Can we return to the cool shade of sat-chit-ananda in the oasis of the Self, our source?
Can we re-discover the gift we were born with and thus see the magic and the sacred all around us once more?
Can we attain the kingdom of heaven and make this world the paradise it was always meant to be?
Can we, at last, evolve into our true humanity, our peaceful bliss, our simple dignity, our divine legacy?
Can we give this question at least a small fraction of our attention every day?
Humanity, what do you want to be when you grow up?
What do you want to feel when you are old?
innocence
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