Today in a speech in Michigan I heard President Obama say what may be the must honest and true words spoken by a plotician - ever - "I am my brothers keeper...I am my sisters keeper." The president was talking about values, yet there's a much deeper aspect to these words - we are the keepers of our brothers and sisters because not only is there welfare our own, but their very existence is our own as well. There is no point where another leaves off and we begin - it's an optical delussion of time and space. I am and therefore you exist and you are and so I am. There is no greater truth than this. We are our brothers keepers and we are our sisters keeper - it's the interest of the Self that makes it so. John Donne decalred that no man's an island and further in the poem tells as not to ask for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee. On a very deep level the President gets this and on a deeper level as well we all do. The bell tolls - and we all must answer.
Peace,
Eric
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