Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

And then there was this fantastic humility. The
love, compassion, and humility are all synonymous. I
am trying to break it down to make you understand, to
an extent, what was going on. The humility was there
not to change anything. Everything was right just the
way it was. Planets were exploding, new planets were
being born. Suns were evaporating, new suns were
being born. From the suns the planets came, and then
life began on the planets. All this was taking place
instantaneously, at the same time and yet nothing was
taking place at all.
Therefore the humility is that everything was
alright. There was nothing I had to change. There was
nothing I had to correct. The people dying of cancer
were in their right place where nobody dies, and there
is no cancer. Wars, man's inhumanity to man was all
part of it. There cannot be a creation if there is not an
opposite to good. In order to have a creation there has
to be opposites. There has to be the bad guy and the
good guy. I was able to understand all these things.
The next thing I remember is my teacher was
shaking me. I was the only one left in the class,
everybody had gone, the bell rang, and I had not even
started the mathematics test. Of course I got a great
big zero.
But those feelings and the understanding never left
me. From that time on my whole life changed. I was