I like airports…
In airports you can see all kinds of different people. I like to get there early and sit and watch the stream of faces from places all over the world pass by. Airports are one of my favorite places to do a Sufi exercise I once learned: In observing your fellow humans say to yourself: “I am looking at the faces of God”.
Changes one’s perspective… On this little planet we live on, everyone is your neighbor. The space between the particles that make up your body is that very same space that permeates everything and everyone else. While you are separate, you are also one with everything – the beautiful core paradox of life…
Today, I am leaving London for a tour all over Europe to visit the local offices of my client. There will be plenty of airports along the path and I am already looking forward to seeing “God” in hir many faces.
Being in London for the last few weeks has been interesting in many ways. It was sad to be here and witness human beings blowing each other up – especially when knowing that this happens all day long all over the world. It is amazing that today there are still people who think that “God” can be separated. That we can have different ones each more omnipotent and omniscient than the other, that “God” can be separate depending on where on this lovely planet one gets to grow up.
It was curious to me that only a few days prior to the bombs exploding in London, a friend of mine send me a link to a speech that was made in 1953 declaring a world government (the Ellsworth declaration). It was saddening to read and infuriating at the same time considering that more than 50 years have past since, and that we still don’t seem to be any further in making this one planet with one population.
Until we all consider ourselves one species, humans, and until we look at our home as this planet rather than arbitrarily determined nations, we will continue to suffer from separation and all the terror it brings with it.
It starts with each and every one of us. I, for my part, look forward to sitting in the airport and doing my Sufi exercise today and over the next couple of weeks while traveling all over Europe. It might be a small thing, but it’s definitely a start…
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