Insight

What makes human beings unique amongst most other life on earth is our ability to better our fellow man.  Language and invention are clear signs that this is our most specific trait.  When chased by a lion, invention gives the advantage in a single lifetime-what would take genes many generations to evolve.  If we look at humanity in this way, what makes man most fit-is his ability to make others more fit.  Conversely, the least fit man is he who is either unable or unwilling to help others.

Racism and other forms of prejudices stand as a cruel mockery of this truth.  To see one as inferior, is to see one that you cannot help rise up.  The egoist may find themselves a more fit person, but they do not condemn another as less fit.  The racist defaces himself as impotent when it comes to his fellow man for he must say to himself-’I am unable to better this human being’.  Perhaps there are many reasons for his belief, but this is the end result.  There is no one less fit to serve humanity than one who chooses not to.   

[The All,7]

One cannot kill an idea or a dream.  It can be stifled, the vessel can be done away with-but the idea and dream will resurface so long as it is meant to do so.  The truth does not turn away for any person or group of people.  As such, an immortality is granted to all thought-all feeling. 

The oppressed man may strive for freedom today, and not find it-but someone like him one day will.  An inventor can spend years on a machine that never bares fruit-but his brother or sister of the soul one day will.  Look not to life as an entirety, but as a collection of moments.  Just as one act of goodness does not a good person make, so should one failure not make ones life a travesty.  See each thought, each wish, and each attempt as unique.  These aspects of you when brought down to their individual self-contained states are shared throughout many, if not over today-then over time.  Take comfort that these will live on.

Each moment of each day is a scene that we divest ourselves in entirety too.  It guides our actions and thoughts.  Is it not also so with our dreams?  Shaped by a stage of unknown design.  Take comfort that the stage will live on.

Does it matter if the age, the sex, or the face of the person who reaches the finish line differs from your own-if the drive and the thought are the same?  Say that you share this piece of your soul with the world, and rejoice that this truth shall come to pass-and is immortal and right.

[Eternity,5]

Sin does not come from within, it comes from without.  Out of ignorance we can act as a conduit for sin.  No one person is responsible for the world around him or her.  We are born into the world from which sin persists like a virus.  Some of us are born more immune to the ravages of this disease than others.  Societies beliefs serve as an imperfect inoculation, constantly perfected as we evolve.  This does not disavow a sinner from their actions, it simple reminds us of our own role in the sin.  During punishment, we are not judging the sinner alone-we are also judging that part of humanity that we share-that part that allowed the sin to occur.  We should never forget that the sin is born from this world of ours-and as such we all share in the responsibility.

[The All,6]

There is no single apocalypse or creation.  Eternity is timeless as the Lord is timeless.  The end and the beginning are happening all the time thoughout our mode of comprehension.  The events leading towards the end are occuring simulataneously with the events leading us towards the beginning.  Time is only an attempt at understanding the world around us.

Sin, evil, crime, war, hate-pervade the world around us.  They wax and wan throughout the months and seasons, occasionally bubbling up into a greater movement upon the social consciousness.  So too however do we find love and peace.  We cannot point to a single moment in time and say clearly, here begun man-or here ends man.  Without relating one incidence of evil versus one incidence of good together, by treating them as seperate and unqiue incidences-it becomes possible to say that the world ends and begins a million times a day.

When we set off a firework, when does the fire work go off?  When we purchase and position the fire work?  When we lay down the fuse?  When we light the fuse?  When the firework lifts into the sky?  When the firework explodes?  Remove any single action in the chain and the firework would not go off, so why should one event be viewed as more important than the other?  In a murder trial to we seperate the death of the women from the gun that fire the bullet from the loading of the bullet and pulling the trigger?  Why then should the end of days be considered differently.  In an infinite universe there is no one single point for the end, for the end is always occuring around us.  The same is true with creation, with death comes birth and all the events that lead up to the birth.

The world of man is always being created and is always dying.  The end is occuring as much today as it will tomorrow-creation is occuring as much today as it did as far back in time as we can recall.

[Eternity,4]   

The knowing of a thing and understanding serve unique purposes.  Knowing a thing is how you relate its existence to the universe around you.  Understanding a thing is how you relate its existence to the universe within your self.  You can know a pitcher quite readily from past experience.  Understanding the pitcher, even as simple as it may seem is built from more complex experiences-though the knowledge does not change.  The pitcher could be art, a decoration for the homestead.  The pitcher may be used to hold flowers within.  The pitcher may be used to pour tea.  Knowing the pitcher is an absolute, understanding the pitcher is infinite.  Therefore we should not seperate ourselves based on understanding.  What one man understands life to be compared to another mans is irrelevant.  What matters is that we know life is.

[The All,5]

It is a need within all of us to know a thing.  There is no right or wrong in knowing a thing, for the knowledge is as much a sense as that of touch, scent, sight or hearing.  If you could not use your senses to find an object before your eyes, does the object exist to you?  If you were incable of knowing a thing, through any of these senses or of the mind-would it exist?  Or would it be as an invisible creation always beyond your grasp?  You couldn’t recall seeing it before, for you do not know it.  You cannot say this reminds me of that.  It would forever be beyond the realms of your possible universe and may as well exist in another dimension.  So we know things and all knowledge is equal in the knowing.  Knowledge that has come before serves this purpose as much as knowledge that will come tomorrow.   

[The All,4]

Our understanding of the divine grows with time, though our knowledge that the divine exists has always been present.  In such a way we are all sinners when future generations understand the sins we only know to have commited today.  In similar suit we cannot hold the past as responsible for wrongs they have commited before understanding them.  Understanding a thing and knowing a thing are distinct.  It is similar to a sapling and a tree.  The sapling and the tree both know the sunlight.  As time passes the tree grows larger, but a tree alone gains no more sunlight than the sapling does.  For each branch, each limb must share in that light.  Such is the way of advancing our own understanding.

[The All,3]

It is because when we are of the mind that we must watch ourselves to not accept evil, sin, and criminality into our lives.  There is a great difference between being aware of sin and accepting it into our consciousness.  Many people fall off the path because they adapt to the world around them.  They give sin power by treating it as unmoveable rock, something to build their world around rather than without.  Rather than being that which should not be, the sin and evil because that which is.

We need to live in the world that truly is.  The world is not just people and actions.  The world is not simply cities and highways.  If someone were to point to a rock and remark, ‘what a lovely tree.’  Would that make it true?  Why then should we let people point to sin and grant it a similar status?  Believe in the world that should be as clear as any thing else standing before you.  Live in that world.  Like an artist, the conception comes before the painting. 

[Eternity,3]

While of the body-we share the world with the people around us.  No one has total power over another, no matter how much they may wish to believe so.  People can influence us and we can guide one another.  We guide others even without any overt action.  A good man can turn those he walks with into better men.  Good deeds go far beyond the immediate gain.  We have an impact on each other and can save our brothers and sisters soul. 

This is not possible when of the mind.  In the ever after the world we shape is ours alone.  There will be no preachers informing us of transgressions.  There will be no lawyers arguing the nuances of law and order.  What we believe, what we truly believe will come true.  Salvation therefore is of the earth, not of the heavens.  In the ever after if one needs saving, they must learn to save themselves.  What could take one year on earth influenced by others to overcome personal sin-can take eons in the after life for one sinner to realize the wrong without anothers guidance.  It is not merely acknowledging the wrong of an action, it is believing in the wrongness of it.  A criminal can admit what he does is wrong, but until he believes,that wrongness will be a part of his core identity.

[Eternity,2]

Imagine an afterlife where everything you believed in came real.  You believe in love-it is there.  You believe in a home-it is there.  You believe in peace and justice, and it to is there.  Now pretend to be a thief.  You believe your actions to be permissible and justified-that to is there.  Pretend to be a murderer, who has spent a life time building a belief system which permits the action contrary to most laws and faiths.  Murder to would be there.  Heaven and hell are merely labels.  When given all the power to create the world that we wish, it is not God who damns us-it is ourselves.

[Eternity,1]