Love

To love humanity is both a great challenge and a great gift when practiced moment to moment in an overpopulated and industrialized world. Overwhelmed by the vastness of our species' numbers, we squirrel away our love and compassion for those 'special' human beings, whom we deem to be so. To open to all humanity from moment to moment is like jumping from a plane after learning to be defended by upbringing and by the traumas of growing up. To reject labeling and categorizing from moment to moment is extremely hard for me. However, when I achieve success in a given moment, I feel whole, liberated, at one with the Universe. Practice is the constant exercise or quest to achieve that love of humanity and all beings.