we are all humans

“We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us and wealth classified us.”

                                                                            Pravinee Hurbungs

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He’s a human

She’s a human

Wouldn’t you like to be a human too?

It is amazing how often we dehumanize each other

How often we make each other ciphers, zeros,

And how often we rob people of their basic humanity

As we smother them with adjectives and invectives

We allow so many things to marginalize and minimize others

Color

Creed

Ideology

Status

Education

We can make anything an occasion for denigration

I’m in, you’re out

I’m good, you’re bad

I’m blessed, you’re curse

On and on it goes

But in the end there is only this

We are spiritual beings

All bound to the same Spiritual reality

All therefor bound to each other

We may wear different skins

Different clothes

We may use different words

And thing about things in different ways

We may be have’s and have not’s

There may be many things that push as apart

One from the other

But in that separation we deny our essential nature

Which is to be bound together

As the parts of a body

Which is to be connected, all to the same branch

The connecting tissue is spirit/spiritual

The connecting tissue is love

It is what is sacred that makes us human

Homo divinus  (Eckhart Tolle and others)

It what is sacred that draws us back together

Homo Novus  (Osho, Zorba the Buddha Discourses)

It is my intention

(we will see how it goes)

To remember my own humanity

And to remember yours