simple and subtle

We typically think that experiences such as sadness, tiredness, or loneliness  are temporary feelings that qualify us as human beings, but we can go a step further. Even the experience of being human is a temporary state of pure being. At the deepest level, we are not human beings; we are pure being, temporarily clothed in human experience.

It is this recognition, the recognition of the divine in us that makes us truly humane. The qualities that are innate in being, such as peace, happiness, and love, inspire actions in our lives such as creativity, kindness and compassion.

- Rupert Spira, English artist, author, teacher, and practitioner of Sufism, Mystical Christianity, Kashmir Shaivism, and Advaita Vedanta