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Spirit & Stardust
A speech by U.S. Representative and
presidential candidate Dennis J. Kucinich
Speaking at the Praxis Peace
Institute Conference
Dubrovnik, Croatia - Sunday, June 9, 2002
As one studies the images of the Eagle
Nebula, brought back by the Hubble Telescope from that place in deep
space where stars are born, one can imagine the interplay of cosmic
forces across space and time, of matter and spirit dancing to the music
of the spheres, atop an infinite sea of numbers.
Spirit merges with matter to sanctify
the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability
of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of
our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our
self. The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the
stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: One with the universe.
Whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth,
kinetic, elemental. We, the earth, air, water and fire - source of nearly
fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling.
We begin as a perfect union of matter
and spirit. We receive the blessings of the Eternal from sky and earth.
In our outstretched hands we can feel the energy of the universe. We
receive the blessings of the Eternal from water, which nourishes and
sanctifies life. We receive the blessings of the Eternal from the primal
fire, the pulsating heart of creation. We experience the wonder of life
multidimensional and transcendent. We extend our hands upwards and we
are showered with abundance. We ask and we receive. A universe of plenty
flows to us, through us. It is in us. We become filled with endless
possibilities.
We need to remember where we came from;
to know that we are one. To understand that we are of an undivided whole:
race, color, nationality, creed, gender are beams of light, refracted
through one great prism. We begin as perfect and journey through life
to become more perfect in the singularity of "I" and in the
multiplicity of "we"; a more perfect union of matter and spirit.
- - This is human striving. This is where, in Shelley's words, "
. . . hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates."
This is what Browning spoke of: Our 'reach exceeding [our] grasp'. This
is a search for heaven within, a quest for our eternal home.
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“Citizens across the United
States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department
of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society,
to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic
through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development,
for economic and political justice and for violence control.”
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