“You scientists have the stupendous story of the universe. It breaks outside all previous cosmologies. But as long as you persist in understanding it solely from a quantitative mode you fail to appreciate its significance. You fail to see its music. That’s what a spiritual tradition can provide. Tell the story, but tell it with a feel for its music.”—Thomas Berry
Sunday, March 14, 2010
STARDUST
Stardust! I am a stardust.
It is a fact that man comes from ape. But the real story does not started here. We must widen our horizon. The Darwinian story of evolution is just a small part of a far more longer and complicated story of evolution—a story that starts from that very first beam of light that appears in space and time (the primordial flaring forth).
Having seen evolution on this way, we can really say that all things are connected. All beings share a certain commonality—that we all have the same origin. We all came from stardust.
This reality should somehow make man realize his spot, his niche in the universe. We’re not in the position to say that we are the apex and the most important creatures—that we are the elite. We must learn to view reality using new lenses. Because we are all brothers and sisters, we, human beings, must live in communion with other beings—the non-humans. We must treat tem as subjects and not as mere objects. It is only through this act of love that we can again experience the ‘oneness’ that had happened in the primordial flaring forth.
This is the call of the new generation—a new spirituality. A life of communion with others—the unity of all the stardust.
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