Sep 14, 2009

Scales of Humanity and History

Scales of Humanity and History

An ounce of insight outweighs a pound of erudition.
A Time of true heart outflanks an Age of oppression.
An experience of oneness routes a chaos of disintegration.

The surgings of natural love dispel alienation.
The rooted vision outshines the beacons of theory and sermon.
All right and vital spirit outlives forged rule, order and learning.

Copyright 2008 L.S. Heatherly

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The Roots of Humanity

Deeply rooted truths, realities, compassions, playings and labors of loves: these commonalities are the universal rootstock perrennially lying buried in all civilizations. They are the source of all Human Revolutions against oppression. Not to be aware of them is easy. These primordial roots and tubers of Earth's ecological, organic, family-community humanness, are covered over by the roadways of personal, expedient career and institutional selves. They lie underneath, national, commercial and ethnocentric selves-- underneath the intellect-egoself's materialistic, diverse empires of domination.

Not to join in the archaeological dig for the organic essences of humanity, not to yearn for the watering and cultivation of natural, whole self and whole, human being, is to accept the on-going sufferings and inequities of the bulk of humanity.

Human life (and being) is not a case of "to be or not to be." It is a case of what to be and why to be that whatness, and how to be that whatness of being, called human beings. It is a case of the becoming of and sustainment of humans beings --beyond the case of our mere human organisms remaining alive. It is beyond our brains and bodies' growth; and beyond the health and life-span of our brain-body organisms. The human condition, the experience of, the passage through, human beingness, is a case of what to love, how to love and why to love.

Copyright 2006 L. S. Heatherly

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