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Look up. There is so infinitely much more matter than you out there, hurling forth glowing plumes, imploding into vortexes, converging into gaseous balls, shattering into incandescent rain. It is endless and eternal and entropic and generative and holy in the most religion-irrelevant sense of the word.
Look down. There is the great grinding, shifting, melting foundry for all the
yawning canyons and toothed peaks and rift valleys. There is the alchemical trinity of moisture, mineral, and organic debris that has the power to birth new life, and which informs the composition of your bones, the structure of your extracellular matrix, the very viscosity of your blood.
Remembering where and what you are should not be to the end of feeling
like an insignificant speck. You are woven of this stuff, this starlight and magma, let it extend you and make you feel endless amongst it, swathed in the vastness of time, rich in your very elemental connectedness. Then scan what feels important to you as a creature...
It's not as if you can keep this stuff in mind all the time. But make a nook in your brain that remembers it, and you can step into it whenever you want to put things back in perspective. Going there can give you giant feelings zizzing through your body. It is also likely to make you feel less needy, and
maybe even a bit euphoric.
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Annie Raser-Rowland (The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More)