We are all ancient astronauts traveling through the cosmos. None of us are from this place we’re in—we are made of star stuff created in the crucible of the Big Bang. Our home, this Earth, is flying too, away from the fog of the Milky Way and hurtling toward the constellation Hercules at 45,000 mph. In just 100,000 light years we’ll zoom round-trip right back to where the journey began 4.5 billion years ago. Hold tight and ride the light.
Category: Philosophy
Walking
Through walking we wind our way toward the answers to life’s most difficult questions: Who am I? What is my purpose? Where am I now and where do I want to be? Walking is the physical representation of our journey through this life. This is what makes it spiritual. Through long walks we get to experience the journey of life in a compact form. There is a beginning and an end. There are challenges and the overcoming of challenges. We become lost and we find our way again. There is a final destination, but it is the journey itself that defines us. We must walk while we can.
Nothing and Everything
You are simultaneously nothing and everything, the Alpha and the Omega, a universe within the Universe like an infinite matryoshka doll forever opening to reveal smaller and smaller versions of the self until, finally, you commence to splitting atoms with great bursts of energy in a nuclear fission of massive and creative destruction. You are pure energy moving outward through the Universe. Your body itself is made up of star stuff left over from the Big Bang with 99 percent of its mass comprised of just six common elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The atoms that make up the very bones in your body, every striation of muscle tissue, every drop of blood, the billions of neurons in your brain, your beating heart—all of it was forged long ago in the crucible of the stars. Look up into the night sky. See where you came from, where you are going.
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