What binds us together, race to race, religion to religion, gender to gender? What can we definitively say about our humanity wherever we reside that we know another can say from their perspective?
We can say that we all cry when a child dies, or is wounded, we can admit that we all mourn when lovers are thwarted. We all grieve when innocence is destroyed by cruelty and hatred, or when a people are destroyed because of their genetics.
But is that enough? If you cut us open, black, white, red, every tribal culture, every religion, our blood would look the same, and so would our tears. When a child is killed in Syria, the mother of that child cries as much as one does from America who loses her own.
But that is not enough. Knowing that, we are still building walls against each other, we still deny each other the humanity we accord ourselves and our so-called "superior" way of life, because we all believe we have the answers, to the exclusion of others, no matter where we reside.
The problem is that the walls we've built between us are killing our world, putting our planet at risk, and our entire way of life.
We are the last generation who will live with this old code of hatred and its immense and unspeakable anger. The children that are now being born contain a different code and a different awareness, and those who do not see "differences" are there to assist them in the fullness of time.
The tidal wave of change that is now upon us does not distinguish between rich and poor, men or women, children or the infirm, or one way of life versus another.
Its impact is monumental, and in its wake all differences are being swept aside.
We can say that we all cry when a child dies, or is wounded, we can admit that we all mourn when lovers are thwarted. We all grieve when innocence is destroyed by cruelty and hatred, or when a people are destroyed because of their genetics.
But is that enough? If you cut us open, black, white, red, every tribal culture, every religion, our blood would look the same, and so would our tears. When a child is killed in Syria, the mother of that child cries as much as one does from America who loses her own.
But that is not enough. Knowing that, we are still building walls against each other, we still deny each other the humanity we accord ourselves and our so-called "superior" way of life, because we all believe we have the answers, to the exclusion of others, no matter where we reside.
The problem is that the walls we've built between us are killing our world, putting our planet at risk, and our entire way of life.
We are the last generation who will live with this old code of hatred and its immense and unspeakable anger. The children that are now being born contain a different code and a different awareness, and those who do not see "differences" are there to assist them in the fullness of time.
The tidal wave of change that is now upon us does not distinguish between rich and poor, men or women, children or the infirm, or one way of life versus another.
Its impact is monumental, and in its wake all differences are being swept aside.