Ultimately, we segregated and solipsistic, multi-racial and poly-ethnic human beings must transcend our divisions, come together and cooperate to survive. This would be a huge leap in social evolution and, I fear, will require some massive cataclysm for impetus, just as on an individual scale oftentimes something traumatic moves us toward enlightenment. The better way sees us waking up en mass to the wisdom of the sages--not the religionists--the genuine sages whose message is oftentimes mined from the distortions of religion. Religion may be the last and deepest divide of all and, if not breached, will squelch the last hope for world unity and peace and human survival. Can we separate the wheat from the chaff in time to save our own asses? For those who want a head start: the Beatitudes, the Eightfold Path, Advaita Vedanta, each along the lines of bhakti, karma and jnana yoga, respectively.
"I see only consciousness, and know everything to be but consciousness, as you know the picture on the cinema screen to be but light....There is only light and the light is all. Everything else is but a picture made of light. The picture is in the light and the light is in the picture. Life and death, self and not-self, abandon all these ideas. They are of no use to you." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I see only consciousness, and know everything to be but consciousness, as you know the picture on the cinema screen to be but light....There is only light and the light is all. Everything else is but a picture made of light. The picture is in the light and the light is in the picture. Life and death, self and not-self, abandon all these ideas. They are of no use to you." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
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