How long ago? The core of a star ceased combusting… And it changed in form, peeling layer by layer, ever outward in a dance of heat and light. If we gaze hard enough, and far enough, we can see it still, some 1,000 years and on.
When the core of you ceases in it’s rumbling, when your heart stops in it’s booming, pressing, flow, what in you will move outward, and for how many years will the power of your life be ever felt, seen from some far distance, through the waves of space and time?
Live today as though you are a still combusting stellar thing. Live today as though what you do, and think, and, see, and feel, continues. Impermanence is not the thought that nothing matters, but rather, the thought that we can each leave beauty in our wake.
Will we collapse upon our fear, and greed, and hatred, or explode outward in a rush of love, and bravery, and grace?
Have a glorious day, you shining beings.
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Simply stunning and inspirational.
Thank you for sharing this Thorn.
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Something I love about stellar activity of this nature is that the fact we’re having this conversation now is a testament to the existence of stars that were born and died long before our own sun was born and the earth came into existence. The elements of which we’re composed–carbon, iron, calcium, and so forth–are the products of stellar scatterings from billions of years ago, that have collected together just to form this earth and the things on it. In a sense, nothing is wasted, and even things that are in some way forgotten and long gone and maybe were never even known by sentient beings on this planet (there’s a real “tree-falling-in-the-woods” thought for you!) are having their lives again right now because we’re having ours…!