Jason, If I stomp on your foot, it is you who will feel the pain not I, nor, will your poor toes pain be distributed amongst 7 billion others, just you. When we can grow meats without the animal we'll stop slaughtering animals for example. Sometimes compassion must be bracketed by what we are capable of doing at the time. Mayhap, in some future day, somebody will use their time machine to travel back to 1347 with a cure for the black plague, but that day is not today. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 8:31 pm Subject: Lovely Einstein Quote
"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive." (Albert Einstein, 1954) I didn't know until today he also believed the egoist self was a delusion. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
