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Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler

When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back

Rebecca Solnit
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"We are all leaves of one tree. We are all waves of one ocean"

∆ Thích Nhất Hạnh

∆ Thích Nhất Hạnh

we are so lightly here.
it is in love that we are made, and in love we disappear.

leonard cohen

In order to be born, you needed:

2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great-grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total sum of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment – How many struggles? How many battles? How many difficulties? How much sadness? How much happiness? How many love stories? How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment…

everything flows
everything flows

Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence.

| Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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