In this session, Shams-Tabriz and the Archangels discussed about the topic of awareness and paying attention.

It is a human tendency to categorize each other. We place labels on people and tell ourselves that is who they are. Once we create a label we look for evidence to continually prove that the label is correct. That comes from another tendency-- the need to be right.

If you step back from your labels and reflect, you will find that your opinion of another is just an image. Images are usually not true. Each human being is a bundle of potentiality. We will only find this potential when we move beyond labels and learn to be present with people.

I died from minerality and became vegetable;
And from vegetativeness I died and became animal.
I died from animality and became man.
Then why fear disappearance through death?
Next time I shall die
Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels;
After that, soaring higher than angels -
What you cannot imagine,
I shall be that.

- Rumi

Our home is the playground of the gods, a bountiful meadow of unlimited adventure. Earth is an extraordinary place where the concentrated will of creative impulse seeks conscious, manifest expression, where guided evolution hosts ever-expanding possibilities for creative experience.

Earth and humankind are elaborate experiments ‘gone right’.