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Tag: Cosmos

When You Trust The Cosmos, The Tao Helps You Out

Through awareness of one’s mind and behaviour Taoism seeks to harmoniously unite individuals with the universe, to not fight against but learn how to flow with it. By following the Tao one puts faith in the operations of the cosmos…

Reading time: 8 mins

Cosmos, flow, Tao, Taoism

If The Earth Is Alive, Shouldn’t It Follow A lifecycle Like Everything Else That’s Living?

Although the accumulation of unintelligent matter formed our planet, it’s coalescing and position in the universe serendipitously spawned the living ecosystem we walk upon; but, if the earth is living, should it not also follow a life cycle like every other living thing?

Reading time: 7 mins

Cosmos, earth, lifecycle, Nature, planet

The Sweet Irony of Life; We All Live to Die

As we are consummated our DNA signs a contract, ‘In order for this being to have life, they must inevitably be sacrificed in death’.

Reading time: 4 mins

Amorfati, Cosmos, Death, Mementomori

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