Existence Day

[aliciavikander]

you taught me the courage of stars before you left how light carries on endlessly, even after death with shortness of breath, you explained the infinite

- saturn, sleeping at last

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[chaosophia218]

[ratak-monodosico]

Dolly Setton - Human Body Ingredients, “The Cosmic Recipe for Earthlings”, 2013.

“The Nitrogen in our DNA, the Calcium in our Teeth, the Iron in our Blood, were made in the interiors of Collapsing Stars. We are made of Star Stuff.” - Carl Sagan

[lazyyogi]

A reminder of mindfulness from Thich Nhat Hanh

[existenceday]

The greatest art is to discover all the ways that you love your life.

Alex Grey

[islamicpsychology]

"It’s such a great gift to be a rock, as opposed to not existing at all. It’s a greater gift to be a flower. It’s a greater gift to be a tree. And It’s a greater gift to be an eagle. But what a gift, to be a human being; To be a conscious human being. Created on the doors of eternity…Literally created on the doors of eternity."

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (via diaryofapsychlover)

[existenceday]

New Pale Blue Dot video

[archatlas]

Bernhard Edmaier

Our beautiful fractal planet <3

[paleshoulders-deactivated201210]

[existenceday]

i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth day of life and love and wings;and of the gay great happening ilimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any - lifted from the no of all nothing - human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

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Happy Existence Day!

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Existence Day is Sunday, April 21 2013! What will you do to celebrate your being alive to witness the unfolding of the Magnificent Universe?

[existenceday]

Everything in your body, and everything you can see around you, is made up of tiny objects called atoms. Atoms come in different types called elements. Hydrogen, oxygen and carbon are three of the most important elements in your body.

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How did those elements get into our bodies? The only way they could have got there, to make up all the material on our Earth, is if some of those stars exploded a long time ago, spew- ing all the elements from their cores into space. Then, about four and a half billion years ago, in our part of our galaxy, the material in space began to collapse. This is how the Sun was formed, and the solar system around it, as well as the material that forms all life on earth.

So, most of the atoms that now make up your body were created inside stars! The atoms in your left hand might have come from a different star from those in your right hand. You are really a child of the stars.

- Lawrence Krauss

[kitten-little-blog]

Carl Sagan in Cosmos (episode 13, Who Speaks for Earth?)

[existenceday]

Full moon over Earth, via Chris Hadfield