“I am he, as you are he, as you are me, and we are all together.”

“As remarkable as this may be, stunning results from a new study show that cells from other individuals are also found in the brain. *** We all consider our bodies to be our own unique being, so the notion that we may harbor cells from other people in our bodies seems strange. Even stranger is the thought that, although we certainly consider our actions and decisions as originating in the activity of our own individual brains, cells from other individuals are living and functioning in that complex structure.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-discover-childrens-cells-living-in-mothers-brain/

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“Everything in the universe is connected…”

“Outside and inside, substance and phenomena: these pairs are neither dualistic nor opposed, but form one unseparated whole. Change, any change, influences all actions, all relationships among all existences; the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of one person influences every other person; our movements and those of others are interdependent. Everything in the universe is connected, everything is osmosis. You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.” ~ Taisen Deshimaru Roshi, “The Zen Way to the Martial Arts”

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