We live in a world that's spinning and hurtling not only through space but through time as well. Our planet has changed through time. It started off as a ball of gas, lifeless. Through time it changed and life forms began to flower.
Plants, animals, humans all flowered in a grand symphony. Only the symphony had its rehearsals, thousands, millions, billions of mutations--a grand trial and error system or a process of elimination, try, fail, try, fail, try, fail, try, succeed, every failure a step towards future success--for the thousands and millions of life forms.
We see that time is still having its effect on the planet with the advent of science and super technology, the result of accumulated knowledge through time. With the global warming affect or the threat of nuclear weapons alone, the planet is indeed being effected today by time.
The question is will it all lead to some future flowering of life on our planet, or will we be a mutation ourselves on some grander scheme than life on our planet? Are we already fated to be a mutation, or a flowering of life, or is that to be determined by human will? And if we want it to continue to be a flowering of life, what are we supposed to do? How do we fulfill our part?
I don’t know. I do know in the middle of all this spinning and hurtling through time toward some destiny we know not what, we humans are left unbalanced, confused, and afraid. In the face of this confusion and fear we reach for indulgences. Man’s traditional indulgences have been sex, violence, drugs, and alcohol. But there are other indulgences that consume us as well--eating, vanity, greed, success, failure, being superior or inferior, destructiveness, arrogance, frivolity and on and on.
We as individuals have to work to gain clarity and understanding, understanding about ourselves, the human race, and all the life around us. Through this clarity and understanding we will know what we are supposed to do and how to fulfill our part.
Throughout time there have been individuals--men and women--who were clear and knew what they were supposed to do and spent their life fulfilling their part, and they had an effect on the world.
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