2/24/2023

Constant Reassurance

 


Bastiat

 


Carl Sagan

 


aware


 

If I am aware of the nature and movement of my reactions, then naturally that awareness will result in freedom from the reactions.... If I am aware, simultaneously of the objective challenge, the subjective reactions, and the causes of those reactions, then it results in freedom. Then the momentum of reaction will not carry me over with it, but I will be ahead of the reactions; I will not be a victim of my reactions, but I will see them as I see the objective challenge. That for me is meditation. All-inclusive attention while moving in life.”

                                                                                                                ~ Vimala Thakar

2/17/2023

WE are

 


9 Signs


 

 Atacama Giant; a giant geoglyph on Cerro Unitas in Atacama Desert, Chile.

It is one largest prehistoric geoglyph figures in the world with length of 119m; likely created sometime between 1000-1400 CE by successive series of indigenous cultures including Inca.



1/30/2023

Rumi poem

  

The Guest House


This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture,

still, treat each guest honorably.

S/He may be clearing you out

for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing,and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.


~ Rumi

1/13/2023

Stardust

 The hydrogen in your body, present in every molecule of water, came from the Big Bang. There are no other appreciable sources of hydrogen in the universe. The carbon in your body was made by nuclear fusion in the interior of stars, as was the oxygen. Much of the iron in your body was made during supernovas of stars that occurred long ago and far away. The gold in your jewelry was likely made from neutron stars during collisions that may have been visible as short-duration gamma-ray bursts or gravitational wave events. Elements like phosphorus and copper are present in our bodies in only small amounts but are essential to the functioning of all known life. The featured periodic table is color coded to indicate humanity's best guess as to the nuclear origin of all known elements. The sites of nuclear creation of some elements, such as copper, are not really well known and are continuing topics of observational and computational research.