“We are all made of stardust. As brothers of wild beasts and cousins of the flowers in the fields, we all carry the history of the cosmos. Just by breathing, we are linked to all the other beings that have lived on the planet. For example, still today we are breathing in millions of atomic nuclei from the fire that burned Joan of Arc in 1431, and some of the molecules from Julius Caesar’s dying breath. When a living organism dies and decays, its atoms are released back into the environment, and eventually become integrated into other organisms. Our bodies contain about a billion atoms that once belonged to the tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment.” #enlightenment #stardust #atomsofmysoul #atoms #organisms #atomicnuclei #cosmos #trees #treeoflife #buddha (at Catalina Foothills, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMZ0OXDrLtrOqCVp_SYPatkxzePIapUC3GH5Ko0/?igshid=a3gt0r570ktj