Sometimes the Dalai Lama sounds like Buckminster Fuller
By Ari | Sep 24, 09 09:20 AM
One of the most powerful visions I have experienced was the first photograph of the earth from outer space. The image of blue planet floating in deep space, glowing like the full mood on a clear night, brought home powerfully to me the recognition that we are indeed all members of a single family sharing one little home. I was flooded with the feeling of how ridiculous are the various disagreements and squabbles within the human family. I saw how futile it is to cling so tenaciously to the differences that divide us. From this perspective one feels the fragility, the vulnerability of our planet and its limited occupation of a small orbit sandwiched between Venus and Mars in the vast infinity of space. If we do not look after this home, what else are we charged to do on this earth?- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
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