From Six Ways of Being to the Trinity of Humanity
In Being Human 6, I wrote about six ways of being that either help us become more human or slowly pull us apart.
Three ways remembered. Three ways forgotten.
At the time, I saw them as six. A mirror between Spirit and survival.
But the more I’ve sat with it
in the quiet of my own life,
watching where I love and where I fail
the more I’ve realized: what looked like six was really two faces of three.
The roots were always the same.
And they were not outside us, waiting to be found. They were already planted within.
This is what it means to awaken to the world inside:
To discover that the Trinity was never far off, never hidden in doctrine or ritual,
but written quietly into the fabric of our being.
II. Love, Forgiveness, Kindness
The Trinity written into every soul is simple, but it is everything:
- Love. To see another as whole. Presence without possession.
- Forgiveness. To release the past. Freedom without condition.
- Kindness. To give care freely. Grace without transaction.
These three are not achievements we earn but invitations already written into us.
They are what humanity looks like when Spirit is alive within us.
They are also the treasure that the compass of GPS keeps pointing us back toward:
Grace reminds us they are already gifts.
Presence grounds us in living them.
Spark is what ignites when they take root in the world.
III. With
But survival bends them inward. Fear makes us choose ourselves first.
- Love with boundaries becomes malice.
- Forgiveness with limits becomes apathy.
- Kindness with expectations becomes negligence.
With boundaries, with limits, with expectations —
the Trinity fractures.
And humanity forgets.
This forgetting always begins with a whisper of doubt.
Not doubt as honest questioning, but doubt as fear: “Did God really say…?”
Doubt that bends trust inward, that makes survival feel safer than surrender.
From that moment, faith fractures.
Love shrinks. Forgiveness cools. Kindness weighs its return.
The Human Trinity collapses into MAN.
And yet these are not chosen from evil.
They are the gravity of survival,
the reflexes we slip into when Spirit feels too costly to remember.
IV. Without
Christ does not erase choice.
He reminds us of the choice that saves humanity.
- Love without boundaries. He ate with outcasts and saw every person as whole.
- Forgiveness without limits. He stretched mercy even to His betrayers.
- Kindness without expectations. He healed and fed, asking nothing in return.
Without boundaries, without limits, without expectations —
the Trinity is remembered in full.
Christ absorbs malice, apathy, and negligence
and gives back only love, forgiveness, kindness.
Where we collapse into survival, He becomes life.
V. The Echo Across Faiths
The Trinity of Humanity is not only a Christian truth.
It is a rhythm that echoes across the world’s faiths.
- In Buddhism, compassion, release, and generosity form the practices of liberation.
- In Islam, God’s very names are mercy and compassion, and the faithful are called to forgiveness and charity.
- In Judaism, covenant commands love of neighbor, release of debt, and care for the stranger.
- In Indigenous traditions, kinship, communal healing, and reciprocity with the earth sustain the sacred web of life.
- In Hinduism, the Trimurti — creation, preservation, transformation — carries the same breath: to make space, to restore balance, to renew life.
And in this sense, Jesus Himself can be seen as a yogi.
Not a practitioner of postures, but one who lived yoga in its truest meaning — union.
His life was devotion (bhakti) without boundary, detachment (vairāgya) that forgave without limit, and selfless action (karma yoga) that gave kindness without expectation.
For Christians, He is the Christ.
For seekers, He can also be recognized as the yogi who embodied perfect union, reminding us that the Trinity of Humanity is already within.
Different words.
Different rituals.
But the same heartbeat:
Love, forgiveness, kindness.
And for me, Christ is the spiritual protagonist of that heartbeat —
the one who lives it without fracture,
the one who reminds me what humanity was always meant to be.
The Human Trinity is universal; Christ is my mirror of its fullness.
VI. The Return Within
The Human Trinity is not an idea to admire.
It is already inside you.
You know what it feels like to love without boundaries—
and you know how quickly fear can turn it into malice.You know what it means to forgive without limits—
and you know how easily pain can cool into apathy.You know what it is to offer kindness freely—
and you know how often disappointment tempts you into negligence.
To be human is not to never fall.
It is to return—again and again—
to the love, forgiveness, and kindness that were planted in you from the beginning.
Even doubt can be part of that return.
Not the doubt that bends inward in fear,
but the doubt that reaches outward in longing:
Thomas touching Christ’s wounds, Abraham asking how the promise could be.
Christ meets doubt not with punishment but with presence,
and turns it back into trust.
Christ is my reminder of this return.
In Him, I see what humanity looks like when Spirit is remembered in full.
Whether you name God as Father, Allah, Brahman, Great Spirit, or Mystery,
the truth remains:
Humanity is most human when we live love without boundaries, forgiveness without limits, and kindness without expectations.
Christ is my mirror of this truth.
Who is yours?
Because these three, once remembered inside, do not stay inside.
They reach outward.
They turn into seeing, provoking, acting, resonating, moving.
They become the spark that carries Spirit into the world.
And that is where the awakening continues.