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"In Greek, the word for sibling is adelphos, which literally means 'from the same womb.' We have all been birthed into existence by the same formless womb, and therefore, we are all siblings... When you realize your Source, you have no choice but to see everyone as a close relative. Each time you interact with another person, you experience both yourself and that person being loved into existence by the Source. It's not a belief or an emotion, but a direct sensory experience that's always there. So it's easy and natural to care for others." —Shinzen Young

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) "Boy and a Crow" (1884) Oil on canvas Realism Located in the Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland

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I’ll dare to tell you that I don’t think so much about old age. I never believed that age was a criterion. I didn’t feel particularly young fifty years ago (when I was twenty, I really liked the company of older people), and I don’t feel old today. My age changes and has always changed from hour to hour. In moments of tiredness I have ten centuries; in moments of work, forty years; in the garden, with the dog, I have the impression of being four years old.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

art: Frank Howell

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For Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” by Margaret C. Cook (1913)

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Marco Vaccaro - Spirito Santo, 2024 - Oil on canvas and gold leaf

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Source

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liu qi, “xizhi (geese),” 2023, ink and color on

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Charlotte Zolotow - 1958

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Blue Bird Fresco, Akrotiri, island of Thera (now Santorini), Greece, Late Cycladic I period, 1700 BC.

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Zdenko Basic (detail)

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Abbott Handerson Thayer - Boy and Angel, 1918.

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Townsend Bradley Martin, byAbbott Handerson Thayer 1919

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Pompeii