“Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again… “
(Source: The New York Times)
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“Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end… The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.”
— Joseph Campbell (via commondense)
Edith Piaf mid-performance at New York’s Versailles nightclub, 1952. Photo by Allan Grant for Life magazine.
Email I Received Today: Regarding the Air We Share With Others
1) Each breath you take shares about 5 air molecules with Hitler’s last breath. The equation to verify that yourself (assuming Hitler’s last breath has evenly mixed with the rest of the atmosphere by now) is:
Number of shared molecules = volume of lungs / volume of atmosphere * molecules inhaled per breath
Those three numbers are (roughly): 1 liter, 5 * 10^21 liters, and 3 * 10^22 molecules
If that bothers you, feel free to replace “Hitler” with “Gandhi” or “Jesus.” If it doesn’t bother you, replace “breath” with “glass of water” and “Hitler” with “dinosaur pee.”
