Weekly Message Dec 24

"One merges into another, groups melt into ecological groups until the time when what we know of life meets and enters what we think of non-life:  barnacle and rock, rock and earth, earth and tree, tree and rain and air......And it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is the most prized and used and desired reactions of our species, is really the understanding and attempt to say that man is related to the whole thing, related inextricably to all of reality, known and unknowable.  This is a simple thing to say, but the profound feeling of it made JESUS, a St. Augustine, a St. Francis, a Charles Darwin and an Einstein.  Each of them in his own tempo and with his own voice discovered and reaffirmed with astonishment the knowledge that all things are one thing and that one thing is all things-plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and spinning planets and the expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time."

John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts    Sea of Cortez

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