Multitudes

I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you…

In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less, and the good or bad I say of myself I say of them…

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) -Excerpts from poem, Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman

“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you. –Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation)

We’re all stardust. We’re all connected.

Knowing this, don’t envy another’s success. For their success is your success.

Don’t judge anyone else. For their failures are your failures.

Don’t limit yourself. The possibilities are infinite.

For you contain multitudes.