I read and heard about yet another suicide bombing in the world today, by a suicide bomber who waited in line at a famous Falafel stand in Israel and then went boom. Today was the day that many children were off from school, and the falafel stand was in a crowded market place. Imagine if this type of insanity visited us here, a crowded mall where someone waits for an Auntie Anne's pretzel and then nothing more.
Reality can be like a cold shower...where we turn our heads to look what others are going through.
It is so chilling to acknowledge what state the world is in today. Although I am a firm believer in the utter paradigm shift of humanity towards spiritual growth and unity, I am also very well aware that the chaotic insanity we live in is also a necessary precurser to something better. I just don't know how long the precurser will last. What will make people understand that the overwhelming truths around eradicating racism, promotion of equality, regarding humanity as one, is a valid answer for today's overpowering ills? As a Bahai it is strange to feel this constant irony. If only man saw itself as one person, the hand, the arm, the leg all parts of differing unique cultures clustered together and connected through its heart. Yet somehow very few of the massess, heads of state and economic movers and shakers seek to acknowledge this reality and instead humanity and those in power continue to poison itself without noticing its slow demise. And the reason? Economic gain, material wealth, power, for a few. If humanity could for just a moment realize it was so connected, so interdependent, and realize the potential of working together as opposed to working apart, what would the new form of humanity look like? Abdul Baha expressed the transformation as the true nobility and illumination of man's potential:
"When love is realized and the ideal spiritual bonds unite the hearts of men, the whole human race will be uplifted, the world will continually grow more spiritual and radiant and the happiness and tranquillity of mankind be immeasurably increased. Warfare and strife will be uprooted, disagreement and dissension pass away and universal peace unite the nations and peoples of the world. All mankind will dwell together as one family, blend as the waves of one sea, shine as stars of one firmament and appear as fruits of the same tree. This is the happiness and felicity of humankind. This is the illumination of man, the glory eternal and life everlasting; this is the divine bestowal."
Lets do it...before many more innocent people are destroyed.
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