shining like the sun

it is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race...now i realize that we all are. and if only everybody could realize this. but it cannot be explained. there is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun...if only they could all see themselves as they really are. if only we could see each other that way all the time.

thomas merton, conjectures of a guilty bystander