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All Living Things: One Interdependent Organism

23 Feb

Carl Sagan: Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality

23 Feb

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light?years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.–

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Interdependent and Interconnected

6 Feb
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TAO…

6 Feb
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Eastern Worldview

6 Feb

Body Functions & Life Process

5 Feb

Body Functions & Life Process and all of these processes are interrelated and affect each other.

All living organisms have certain characteristics that distinguish them from non-living forms. The basic processes of life include organization, metabolism, responsiveness, movements, and reproduction. In humans, who represent the most complex form of life, there are additional requirements such as growth, differentiation, respiration, digestion, and excretion. All of these processes are interrelated. No part of the body, from the smallest cell to a complete body system, works in isolation. All function together, in fine-tuned balance, for the well-being of the individual and to maintain life. Health depends on the body’s maintaining or restoring homeostasis, a state of relative constancy, of its internal environment. However, the ten life processes described above are not enough to ensure the survival of the individual. In addition to these processes, life also depends on certain physical factors from the environment. These include water, oxygen, nutrients, heat, energy, and pressure. Disease represents a disruption of the balance in these processes.

U. S. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute.

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Humans can Awaken

27 Jan
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Spirituality

25 Jan
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The Grace that lives within All

25 Jan
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The Mystic Said…

25 Jan