Philosophical Vanity

Any philosophy, theology, or ideology that presumes humans to be more significant than other living creatures is biased and useless.

If we cannot see ourselves as a part of the continuous spectrum of life then we only deprive ourselves of any significance at all.

So, if we have souls, then so must germs. If we have eternal life, then so must an insect. And if it is possible at all to know the source of our being, then it must be possible for all beings to equally know that source!

That does not mean that our individual relationships with (i.e. understanding of) our source must be the same. It only means that our ability to have a relationship with (or and understanding of) our source must be derived from the same principles. It is a mistake to take any intellectual understanding of our existence as devine or imperical at all. True understanding must have such a nature as to exist independently of all thought or intellect.