Tag: universe
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Transcending Worries: Embracing the Eternal in Art
Beneath the intricate lattice of shadows in this photograph lies for me a poignant metaphor for the human experience. The web-like structure, with its fractured patterns, reflects the endless maze of worries and problems we weave around ourselves. These concerns, which we so often mistake for the reality of life, are nothing but illusions—impermanent and…
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Morning Coffee Talk~48/365
Good Morning, So for those of us who think we are sitting at home or standing still, ponder this: Our planet is spinning around its axis at a speed of 1000 miles/ hour It is also rotating around the sun at a speed of 67,000 miles/ hour and our Milky Way is spinning around at…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 16/365
Good Morning, Time and time again, I dwell on the concept of ‘time’. It’s time for ‘time’ one more time, and how many times are enough times.Well just maybe one more time. Time passes slow when things are difficult, fast when they are joyful, time heals our wounds and time can be endless when we…
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The absence of stillness
We live in a universe where nothing is ever still. All is moving at different speeds from the slow to the mind boggling, inconceivably fast. Even in sleep, parts of us travel, they dream, they journey into worlds unknown. In the minutest of worlds, protons and neutrons are pulsing and living. To travel in mental…
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How indelible is the shadow we are leaving behind?
So many have walked, are walking and will walk this earth. How indelible of a shadow are we going to leave behind? Is our life going to be forgotten or will there be anything in the universe that would have been positively impacted by our lives and how we lived them?
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Day 19~ August 19th~ Boracay
We live on this planet in close proximity (relatively) and with great reliance on this huge wonderful burning star we call our sun. The center of our solar system, it rises every morning with no fail, completely reliable, warming us, providing us with light and energy, giving us life as it marries with our beautiful…
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Day Two Hundred Twenty Two, September 1, 2011
Most of us live in this world that we are born into with most of our attention focused on the events that directly touch our lives. What is close to us and what will influence us directly is what ends up hoarding most of our care and attention. It is only in rare moments that…
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Day Thirty Five, February 26, 2011
Lately, Lea, my daughter, seems to be stuck inside her contemplations of “what is beyond the beyond”. She asks, wonders, contemplates, reads, thinks, questions and is in awe of the biggest question that baffles us all. Today, our family day, we decided to make a little solar system. It was a fantastic process for us…
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Day Thirty, February 21, 2011
as above so below What a potent symbol, the circle! We live on a sphere, we receive daily warmth from a sphere, we have our nightly light from a sphere, we spin in our universe among other spinning spheres. And here on earth, you drop any liquid and it instantly forms itself into the most…