Life In Expansion

NASA/ESA/Hubble

I imagine the vast universe
in flow, color,
swirls of energy, 
calling, reminding me: 
life is everywhere,
teeming with possibility,
pulsing with joy,
expanding in love.

It is said, 
what is out, is in. 
Is this the sight of
my internal being—
in expansion,
in evolution,
in every cell, vibrating
within this experience called life.

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”

-Buddha

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

-Stephen Hawking

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

-Albert Einstein