or take it away at will. I was giving my power, literally my self, away to the crowd.
I indulged in the popular illusion that one human being can have greater intrinsic value than another. The truth is that each of us is a
unique, necessary and incomparable aspect of spirit. Each life is a sacred part of the creative design and dynamic structure of life, of
God. Given that truth (the ultimate wholeness of life), the illusion of “relative rank in the hierarchy of prestige” is totally irrelevant;
it simply doesn’t exist.
Human beings (and rocks and trees for that matter) are not just touched by divinity; we don’t merely contain a divine spark within our otherwise
sinful selves. Each of us is the divine, experiencing and learning and doing whatever we’re doing each moment. It seems to me foolish to imagine
that one aspect of the divine is intrinsically better or worse, higher or lower, than another. The drugged-out prostitute, the movie star, the
potentate, and the archangel are all God itself exploring, creating, being and learning. There is nothing but “God.”
