OUR GREATEST NEED
Never has there been a greater need to recognize the simple but undeniable truth that we are all human.
Fight it though we may, there is no denying that our existence is inextricably and intricately connected.
At its most obvious level, our DNA unites us. However, our unity does not end there for there is a sameness that connects us.
A sameness seen in so many ways.
We all think, act and feel.
All of us awaken, only to sleep. All of us eat, only to hunger. All of us breathe until the moment we leave the Earth... for all of us live, only to one-day die.
This is true for every single human upon the planet, without exception.
Moreover, our commonality extends beyond a shared pattern of existence.
Every one of us at some level partakes in some experience of family, for every one of us is born from both mother and father.
Most importantly, we all have an innate need and capacity to love and be loved.
Thinking, acting, feeling – sleeping, eating breathing – the reality of family and the need for love are indivisible by diversity and it is upon this essential unity that we form “hu•man•u•ni•ty” - our basic and undeniable connection as one shared humanity.
Moreover, the sameness that we share provides a foundation of understanding.
Because we share the same beginnings, because we share the same essential needs, we can and should identify and understand those needs in others, and from that basic and shared understanding, cooperation should develop.
A cooperation constructed from the fundamental truth that if we help others we are also helping ourselves; for if we are all connected and share the same basic needs as one humanity, shouldn’t the commonality of those needs be the impetus for mutual support in their attainment?
One would think so, logic would infer so, but reality paints a different picture.
Why?
Because the underlying unity that connects us has yet to be accepted as truth.
Without the acceptance of that truth, our same basic needs become the needs of isolated individual groups and therefore foster the appearance of separateness.
Conversely, by focusing on those things we hold in common, we is recognized as the truth behind the reflected me seen in the illusory waters of separateness. An adjustment requiring a shift in perspective from the concentric view of the self, to the panorama that encompasses all of humankind.
© 2019 Seth Adamson
Fight it though we may, there is no denying that our existence is inextricably and intricately connected.
At its most obvious level, our DNA unites us. However, our unity does not end there for there is a sameness that connects us.
A sameness seen in so many ways.
We all think, act and feel.
All of us awaken, only to sleep. All of us eat, only to hunger. All of us breathe until the moment we leave the Earth... for all of us live, only to one-day die.
This is true for every single human upon the planet, without exception.
Moreover, our commonality extends beyond a shared pattern of existence.
Every one of us at some level partakes in some experience of family, for every one of us is born from both mother and father.
Most importantly, we all have an innate need and capacity to love and be loved.
Thinking, acting, feeling – sleeping, eating breathing – the reality of family and the need for love are indivisible by diversity and it is upon this essential unity that we form “hu•man•u•ni•ty” - our basic and undeniable connection as one shared humanity.
Moreover, the sameness that we share provides a foundation of understanding.
Because we share the same beginnings, because we share the same essential needs, we can and should identify and understand those needs in others, and from that basic and shared understanding, cooperation should develop.
A cooperation constructed from the fundamental truth that if we help others we are also helping ourselves; for if we are all connected and share the same basic needs as one humanity, shouldn’t the commonality of those needs be the impetus for mutual support in their attainment?
One would think so, logic would infer so, but reality paints a different picture.
Why?
Because the underlying unity that connects us has yet to be accepted as truth.
Without the acceptance of that truth, our same basic needs become the needs of isolated individual groups and therefore foster the appearance of separateness.
Conversely, by focusing on those things we hold in common, we is recognized as the truth behind the reflected me seen in the illusory waters of separateness. An adjustment requiring a shift in perspective from the concentric view of the self, to the panorama that encompasses all of humankind.
© 2019 Seth Adamson