I am separate from nothing. I am part of everything. You are too. Do you feel it?

[Phoenix]

[h=1] Carl Sagan said, "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."[/h]Paul Kingsnorth said, "Something I have come to understand slowly over my lifetime is that nature, earth, the world - whatever you call it - is not simply something I am on but something I am. It is not outside of me: it is me and I am it. There is no outside."

For me this was a wonderful realization, one which is still dawning. Anything I can do for another living being, anything I can do for the planet, I do for myself. As such I will practice compassion, for in so doing, I am being compassionate to myself.

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[Guitarist]

"The carbon in our apple pies."

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos