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Brian Swimme On The Story Of The Universe
The universe story isn’t just about human beings, but also about trees, for example. You can’t fully understand trees if you understand only their hundred-year life cycle. You’ve got to go back to the very beginning of the universe. Now, that’s what I mean by cosmology as empowerment. When we realize that the world we live in today is a creation of an energy and power that is that deep and that old, it helps us get away from the idea that we’re the managers of the planet and know all about what’s going on here.
May 2001The Table
In a snap, the man folded the legs under the table and handed it to me. “It’s yours,” he said with such obvious satisfaction that I couldn’t tell him I didn’t want it.
April 2001April 2001
When we see ourselves as we truly are, we call it “enlightenment”; we call it “salvation.” The words don’t matter. What matters is that the broken heart is lifted; the light returns.
April 2001February 2001
I don’t believe that clothes make the man. Then why am I still a little proud that I own only one suit?
February 2001Staying Awake
A still birth, a recipe for orange duck, a young professional pianist
February 2001Sunbeams
February 2001Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
Sunbeams
January 2001We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.
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