All LIFE co-exists and flows together as ONE. Mother Earth is our shared home, an evolving self-regenerating landscape that connects, nurtures and sustains all of us, together. She recycles water and air, atoms and molecules. Sharing equally with ALL.
LIFE is meant to be lived like a dance, like music, like a creative and collaborative work of art that is ever evolving. That's what LIFE is.
Nature, our home (aka, Eden or Gaia) is a Living Community, more like a planetary cell or cosmic womb than a lonely rock spinning through space.
In Nature and our Universe, everything is shared, everything flows and keeps circulating. Atoms from the stars formed our planet and continue to be recycled endlessly.
The air we breathe, the water we drink, the molecules that circulate in your cells, these are all part of a greater story of Cosmic Creation (and Regeneration). A story that lives on *within* YOU.
Right now in your body (as well as the air that surrounds you) there are relics from the whole history of our Cosmos. Atoms that are billions of years old, that were once parts of stars and interstellar clouds, dinosaur bones, redwood forests, oceans and mountains are at this very moment moving within you.
Deep down YOU are Nature, YOU are the Universe, taking this temporary human form.
Many past cultures celebrated the mystery of life with creation stories and mystic teachings. They did not understand all the details (the science), but did recognize the creativity, interconnectedness, and sacredness of EVERYTHING.
What was true then is just as true now. It just requires that we look at our lives more deeply, go beyond the surface. Look beyond economics, politics, technology, wars and conflict to see with our imaginations (and hearts) the underlying connections that mainstream storytellers tend to ignore.
To see LIFE this way isn't hard, but it does require a shift in consciousness. To see unity where others see conflict, see deep creativity where others see destruction. See the potential for peace, balance and harmony where others see only chaos, conflicts and battles.
Your life, all of Earth history (and the whole Universe) can be experienced as a unified work of Cosmic Art. Constantly changing, evolving, moving and creating. It's here, all around us, and within us.
Move beyond the matrix of fears and beliefs that society's gatekeepers uses to hypnotize, confuse and confine us. Breathe deep. Look up at the stars. Listen to the birds. Watch the clouds that move through the sky. Drink water and eat food slowly, mindfully.
Turn off your television. Turn off your phone. Touch the miracle, present right HERE, right NOW in this very moment.
This is what in Zen they call our "original face," the ONE that created ALL of us, that existed far before "you" or "I" were ever born.
– Christopher Chase
