May 10, 2014

I never really got the meek shall inherit the earth shit from the bible. I didn't get the moral. Why should they get the earth? But I don't think I understood meek properly. To be meek is to look at the greater good. Mother Teresa was meek. Not because she was weak or didn't have strong beliefs and ideals but that, no matter what they were, they were geared towards the greater good.  Gandhi too even. To be meek is to have a selflessness that is so rare in our world that the word we use for it is misconstrued and what we actually use the word selfless for has nothing at all to do with being truly giving. And it's not even a literal inherit but all the world is ours. Give up yourself and gain everything. I mean it's what god preaches all the time but he was off in that he only wants you to give yourself to him but really it's when you give yourself to the people, the world, our society, humanity, species, existence.