“For me there was a pivotal moment after
experiencing the war and massacre in Lebanon in 1982. This was a time when hope
for humanity seemed almost extinguished. And in the middle of the bombed out
ruins of a refugee camp, an old Palestinian man offered me coffee in the midst
of the rubble. I saw in his being the indomitable nature of the human spirit
shining through. I saw the light that shines in the darkness. I saw the part of
us that can never be extinguished. I’ve encountered this light in kindred
spirits, amplified in spiritual masters, and in the lives of those beloved
beings who have been raped, abused and tortured and yet who choose to forgive
and show us all the path to transformative healing.
Whether you believe in God or not, I think
it would be impossible to sustain your activism without making contact with
that light. Einstein realized that we had to discover whether or not it is a
hostile universe. The mystic earns the privilege of experiencing love at the
core of the universe. It is my wish that every activist would come to
experience this reality also.” James O’Dea
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| Hemad Nazari, National Geographic http://photography.nationalgeographic.com |
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