We Are A Blend Of Dust And

Human Intelligence Is A Reflection Of The Intelligence That Produces Everything. In Knowing, We Are Simply Extending The Intelligence That Comes To And Constitutes Us. We Mimic The Mind Of God, So To Speak. Or Better, We Continue And Extend It.

Modernity Sees Humanity As Having Ascended From What Is Inferior To It - Life Begins In Slime And Ends In Intelligence - Whereas Traditional Cultures See It As Descended From Its Superiors. As The Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins Put The Matter: We Are The Only People Who Assume That We Have Ascended From Apes. Everybody Else Take It For Granted That They Are Descended From Gods.

...primal People See The Objects Of This World Not (or Not Only) As Solid But As Open Windows To Their Divine Source.

The Self Is Too Small An Object For Perpetual Enthusiasm.

We Become Compassionate Not From Altruism Which Denies The Self For The Sake Of The Other, But From The Insight That Sees And Feels One Is The Other.