To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
In an evolutionary context, development has no end. That means we can always develop more, further, higher and deeper. In Traditional Enlightenment, it’s possible to become ‘fully enlightened’. In Buddhism, they call it ‘cessation’ or ‘the end of becoming’. Evolutionary Enlightenment is about infinite becoming for eternity.
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
