I fill my senses with reality: wind blowing, waves crashing, plants and animals doing their thing. This place was about the same a million years ago, and a million years from now, when people are gone. Humans are just another chattering species, making noise like birds and dogs.**
Derek Sivers
We are not separate from the cosmos; we are its unfolding logic. Our atoms, expelled from volcanic eruptions of distant dying stars, have assembled into thought, love, and longing, What we call life is matter waking up. And just to be clear, life does not emerge from matter. Life manifests through it.**
AleXander McManus
Whilst we are here
we get to be something
beautiful–
Perhaps giving ourselves
in helping one another
live within our significant imperfections,
Each making some glorious chatter.
If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.^
*Derek Sivers’ Useful Not True;
**AleXander McManus’ Blue Moments;
^Mother Teresa, quoted in Ryan Holiday’s Right Thing, Right Now.
THIN|SILENCE 