do we all really believe that humans are closer to angels than tree frogs? ( just as an example)They seem to do less harm and carry themselves with more dignity than most people seem capable of summoning.
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42; You missed the point of the Rumi poem.

We are spirits that are learning and growing through multiple forms. I know for a fact that I was a lizard, a Bear, and several other animals, and several lifetimes as a human being over the last 800 years or so.

In my previous life; I died as a U.S. soldier in WWI fighting the enemy in France.

Two Bears