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man can be the worst butcher in all the world. Without awareness, he is more dangerous than any animal. Animals don't create mass slaughter, they only kill when they are hungry. Man kills without hunger.
First you have to realize reverence for yourself; then you will appreciate life in others. Talking to a friend, you see something beautiful in her eyes. That beauty is the beauty of Inside Dweller. Your eyes become windows for your Inner Dweller; it sees the outside and the light inside. That person sees through your window what is inside you, in your body. In this way, two souls communicate, seeing each other inside and outside, with reverence for life.
Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel-Prize winning poet, was walking in the woods with a politician. He saw a flower blooming along the path and he was moved. The politician saw his moist eyes and wanted to know what was wrong. After awhile Tagore said, "The beauty of the flower. These tears came from joy, not from sorrow. I saw the small seed pulsating, blossoming, unfolding, opening, bringing forth beauty, color, gentleness and fragrance. What is this? It is life. I saw life. I felt life in a flower, and I felt that life in me. I got in touch with my gentleness, with my color and beauty. All this I saw in a flash of the moment in that flower. The flower and I were not two. Subject and object became one. There was a moment of experience when all duality ended. There was only the experience of life pulsating, feeling, moving. In that joy the tears came."
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