Religion, the one human institution which was supposedly created to bring you closer to God, have too often used superiority as their chief tool. "Our religion is superior to the other religion", many institutions have declared, thus doing more to separate human beings on the path to God than to unite them. States and nations, races and genders, political parties and economic systems have all sought to use their supposed superiority to attract attention, respect, agreement, adherence, power, or simply members. What they have produced by using this tool has been anything but superior.
Is the tulip superior to the rose? Are the mountains more majestic than the sea? Which snowflake is the most magnificent? Is it possible that they are all magnificent and that, celebrating their magnificence together they create an awesome display? Then they melt into each other, and into the oneness. Yet they never go away. They never disappear. They never cease to be. Simply they change form. And not just once, but several times: from solid to liquid, from liquid to vapor, from the seen to the unseen to rise again, and then again to return in new display of breathtaking beauty and wonder. This is life, nourishing life.
This is You!
