"The planet does not need more successful people"

[Voice for Peace]

31. I'm definitely not disputing that.

But people have known for a long time that there are
stars and moons and planets and it hasn't made them
humble. Maybe a few, but most don't pay enough
attention, or have enough time to think about it, or
care.

My perspective on humility is that humility follows
when we understand who and what we are. It is
not because we are insignificant, it is the opposite.

Maybe this doesn't seem to be in the realm of
science, for you, but for me it's the ultimate science,
the connection between the immortal and the mortal.

It is about the energy of life which animates everything,
including every moment of my day, & every breath.

Every person has the potential to know, thereby to be
humbled, & to be fulfilled. There is a bottomless
well of beauty & peace inside of every human being.
It is limitless, as far as I can tell.

The better I know this energy in myself, the more
I see it everywhere else as well. Not only in the stars.
But the very same, in people, and in everything else
too. It is literally an omnipresent beauty.

I don't know anything about the guy, Orr, I just
liked the quote. Much of my life has been spent
undoing all the wrong nonsense in my own head,
the programmed beliefs that weren't even my own,
all the well-meaning ideas of how to be a successful
person -- all downloaded for free, courtesy of the
world around me. The stuff that jams the CPU,
slows down the human operating system.