Inclusion

All the religions of the world got a few things right.  All the religions of the world got a few things wrong.  All the religions of the world were created by the human race.  The human race was created as part of the Universe.  The Universe includes the human race.  The human race through religion has tended to make itself separate from the Universe.

We tend to plod along imagining that our course is separate from the rest.  We imagine that we are special to other things or that our destiny is our own while the rest of the Universe merely tries to keep up or follow along.  We forget that all things have but a single origin.  All that is, is.  The origin of the tree, the stone, the river, the Sun and all the heavens is the same origin of the human race.  All things were created together to take shape in this Universe; to form and reform; to change.

We can not be separated from it.  We can not be excluded.  We are creatures of it born as part of it.  We are fully capable beings of the Universe.  Everyone and everything has a part.  We are actors and observers.  Our purpose is different from the tree or the stone, but our role is not any more, or less, significant.  While all things are connected we are also unique and travel a different path.

Feel this connection in your life.  We are a part of everything and each other.  In this way knowing yourself is knowing everything.