YEAR OF ZEN: SPRING: DAY 52

Q: Small things contain the whole. How can you appreciate and celebrate this?

A: This questions gestures at the heart of a core pillar of my personal philosophy: the recognition that we are literally made of “star stuff” (as Carl Sagan so helpfully put it). We are cosmic matter that has come together in this moment in space and time, and on a planet that is of us and sustains us. Everything is deeply, truly connected. The stuff that currently makes me has probably connected and interacted with the stuff that makes up everything else, both in the deep of space time and in the immediate spaces where time and breath are shared. What a miraculous and mysterious joy life is!