Kinship with All Life

It's pretty elementary writing but I stayed with it until the end and I loved something at the end, when discussing the author's view of a common housefly. He realized that as he identified the fly as either intelligent or unintelligent, good or bad, friendly or unfriendly, co-operative or uncooperative – that was precisely how the fly behaved. For he was nothing more or less than the state of the author's own consciousness about him that made manifest in his outward experience. The author came to see him as a fellow expression of the Mind of the Universe, realizing that all living things are individual instruments through which the Mind of the Universe thinks, speaks and acts. “We are all interrelated in a common accord, a common purpose and a common good. We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.” A good lesson for me, and something interesting to ponder.