Not humanity is the measure of things

One should really first try to realize fully, by meditating deeply on the true nature of reality, that not humanity, mankind, human beings, the human manifestation of life, is the measure of things in space and time, but overall all-encompassing existence, which quite oblivious to our exertions, advances over time on and on in its own one right direction. The objective of the Middle Way devoid of extremes, propounded by the Buddha as the correct existential attitude, must then obviously be the abandonment of all fixed views and to reconnect and reconcile us with this existence as a whole as it truly is. The Buddha's Middle Way in its dynamic Eightfold Path form is then an ongoing reflexion at the level of our personal lives of overall existence becoming over time. And as the Eightfold Path leads us towards better, it follows, inductively if you will, that existence as a whole becomes over time towards better. Holy deeds are therefore only those which are in agreement with overall existence and take us forward at the fundamental level of existence. (from http://www.euronet.nl/~advaya/qanda.htm)