We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff.
– Carl Sagan
It’s so easy to get caught up in thoughts of things that are not actually real – who I wish I was, who I want to be, all the work it’s going to take to get there.
We forget something vital when we are lost in all the thought-work of wanting to be the best version of ourselves, tangled up in all the analyzing and planning we do in hopes of getting there.
We are made of stars.
We’re not just part of the cosmos, we are the cosmos.
We are the cosmos. This is real. This is who we really are, who we already and always are. There’s no better version of that.