There’s an expression in AA a friend tells me: “No better, no worse.”
With such a vision, we put no one on a pedestal. In fact, there are no pedestals.
Just all of us equally human, doing our best.
The yogic sages tell us the universal or divine energy contracts to become each of us. This energy is alive in us as us, each of us contractions of this amazing and mysterious force.
Through the practices, we come to know and experience this force that dwells in each of us as us. We develop a relationship with it.
As we sense this, our perspective subtly, but significantly, shifts, and we begin to change how we see ourselves, and others, and how we live. Maybe with a little more love… a little more respect.
All of us, this infinite array of contractions at play, being us, doing our best for this world!
The Every Day Yogi 