You are everything

This week, I was contemplating the principle of empathy for my book. I found myself on the mountain again and looked down at everything in front of me, I felt my own insignificance once more. Insignificance, in the sense of how many souls I share this planet with. It is hard not to have these glimpses, once you realize how minute you as a living being are in the vast universe. I got a sense of all the living things stretched out in front of me. People, plants, insects, and animals, all have their own struggles, joy, suffering, and sadness.

The world moves slowly from a distance, and one needs that perspective from time to time to understand that the world around you, does not revolve around you alone, but rather you and everything around you complete the whole. Everything is in flow constantly and everything is connected in some way.

We get wrapped up in the fast-paced world we live in every day and become oblivious to the above. Our mind keeps us occupied most of the day and we are trapped within our own world. We miss the world as a whole. Yesterday I saw smoke from a fire raging nearby, and the smoke looked peaceful as it rises, and I imagined the source of the smoke and the chaos and destruction in its wake. Are our lives every day not like this as well?

The picture accompanying this post holds many possible scenarios. It holds people struggling to earn a living. Maybe someone is being rushed to hospital with an emergency. Someone is dying and a new life is being brought into this life, and yet I stand here observing it all, unknowingly.

Standing there in this state of mind, it came to me … Is this not a feeling of empathy and appreciation entering my being? The understanding that I know what is happening and feeling it all as if I am right there in every moment, a connectedness to all around me.

Battles are being fought, alliances established, life being created, and death every second of every day internally. This is true for all living beings just as it is for the universe.

The wonders around you and within you are boundless. Once you grasp this, you will know that you are everything.

You are everything

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