"The [human] species will never learn to co-exist if given total freedom."

[flofrog]

But we as humans continue to pillage this planet and the life here for our selfish reasons. So as we awaken, and polarize to STO, I agree with Agua that we must heal ourselves. Because if we don't, we will be unconsciously operating from triggers, and/or operating from a brainwashed position derived from societal propaganda, and not operating from clarity.

If we desire this world to be a more beautiful place, we must be that ourselves. As Gandhi said: Be the change you want to see in the world. Accepting and loving the way things are is not the same as joining in with everything just for the experience. At some point in evolution one makes conscious choices.

You kind of answer your own question. If humans are not beautiful, then they affect reality in such a way that beauty becomes rarer and rarer. If humans act in a way that is beautiful, reality becomes beautiful. This is more a commentary on those that are in 'control', than it is a reflection of those that labor under the illusions they perpetuate...

Beauty is by it's very nature somewhat fragile, and is easily harmed by those that are so removed from the beauty in themselves that they feel they must capture beauty for themselves.

I wasn't talking about humans being beautiful, I was talking about humans having compassion and awareness. Because of technology and digital media, humans have every opportunity to be informed. If one is informed, for example, of the extent of starvation in the world, or the suffering of laboratory animals, one now has information that can open one's heart to others.

When I mentioned the world being a beautiful place, I meant a world where we all (humans, animals, plants, the planet, etc.) live in harmony. The glitch in this idea is, of course, humans. I don't mean to have a lack of compassion for humans—it is obviously difficult to be here, and the nature of this existence is what it is (though I do not purport to "know" anything).

Acceptance is the result of faith to me, they are intertwined. Acceptance of the dark and the light. There is no loss, only evolution. No-one will be left behind, however many cycles it takes. Let them sleep, help is available for those who call.

Though we are conversing within a particular subject in this thread, I rarely see references to all life deserving compassion. It's usually just humans. We live on a planet, a being, without whom we couldn't exist in physicality. This opportunity allows us to incarnate, evolve, serve, so it goes way beyond physical. And all the nonhuman life on the planet—what about them? I mean it all including hated species such as insects and rats and viruses. It's all at the mercy of humans. Members here have suggested that the lower life forms serve us by suffering. Perhaps this is true. But does that make it okay? Would anyone here want this to continue? To say all is well because of the dance of light and dark works pretty well when one takes into consideration only humans, who have choice.

We are all one does not mean just humans are all one. When there is war, it's not just humans who suffer. At least humans can attend each others' wounds from various biological and explosive weaponry. Has anyone thought about the wounded animals? The trees?

Jeesh, sometimes I'm a real downer.

lol, Diana, I don't think you are a downer today ! It is difficult today not to feel that every bird, cricket, pig, trees are not in fact part of us completely, we just feel that intuitively, and that inherent harmony with them, which is why any violent act happening seem so senseless and out of whack.