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Where We Belong
We’re made of atoms. Yet an atom is 95% empty space. Go figure. Does that mean we are mostly spiritual?
— Susie Cooper
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“So come my friends, be not afraid, we are so lightly here
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear…”
~Leonard Cohen ‘Boogie Street’
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“It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, ‘Women Who Run With The Wolves’
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“Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe,”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“Any live mind today is of the very same stuff as Plato’s & Euripides. It is this common mind that binds the whole world together; & all the world is mind.”
— Virginia Woolf
The mystery of where we come from, what we’re made of and where we’re going continues to mystify us. We don’t know and can only guess. As we penetrate more and more deeply into matter we find space, we find a spaciousness that we imagine is empty. We seem to be constructed out of that emptiness, out…
