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"Never separate the life you live from the words
you speak."
- Senator Paul Wellstone
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in
the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the
little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot
"There comes a point in people's
lives when worldly goals lose their significance
and life loses its
perceived
value. When this happens, it seems as though
life in any meaningful sense has come to an end. In
fact, however, this apparent endpoint can be a turning point toward a new
beginning. It is a
paradox that we sometimes need to lose our
way in order truly to find it, or, as
Jesus says in the Gospels, that to
save one's life is to
lose it and to lose one's life for his sake
is to save it."- Michael Washburn, the paradox
of finding one's way by losing it
"Godly people find life; evil people find
death." - Proverbs 11:19
"By maintaining a constant internal
environment removed from chemical and
thermal equilibrium all living creatures create a distinction between
themselves and the outside environment.
All modern definitions of
life draw on this concept, which is called homeostasis.
Because
homeostasis entails a localized arrest or reversal of entropy,
it demands
an energy source, for example the sun,
through which entropy is in effect exported to the outside
environment.
By definition,
then, life creates a dualism, an inside and an
outside,
and what's more requires an irreversible taking from the
environment.
Speaking in terms
of thermodynamics, life exists only at an (entropic)
cost to the environment.
Life,
then, not only requires but actually is a
separating off
of a temporarily self-maintaining part of the universe.
Contrary to our fundamental cultural
assumptions, though,
this separation
is neither permanent nor absolute, but admits to degrees.
We are all
permeable to our environment as we
routinely exchange materials with the outside.
We are semi-permanent
patterns of flux with an existence independent of the
specific material substances that compose us, just as an ocean wave only
temporarily comprises a certain collection of water molecules. The molecules
simply bob up and down as the wave moves forward onto new ones.
Similarly, even though the matter of the
universe cycles through each of us at
varying rates and in a unique way, we share this matter and, in our
relationships, co-determine each other's
ever-mutating patterns of flux." -
Charles
Eisenstein
Life is defined as:
plants and
animals.
actual
environment or
reality; nature.
continuing for a lifetime;
lifelong.
characteristic state or mode of
living.
animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.
using a living model as a subject for an
artist.
animation and energy in action or
expression.
an
individual; a
living being, usually a
human being.
the
period between birth and the present time.
the
living or actual
form,
individual,
thing, or state.
the characteristic
state or condition of a living
organism.
an account of the series of events
making up an individual's
life.
the physical, mental, and
spiritual experiences
that constitute existence.
the
system of animal nature;
animals in general, or considered
collectively.
the period during which some
thing is functional (as between birth and
death).
the course of
existence of an
individual; the actions and
events that occur in living.
that which
imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which
enjoyment or success depends.
a certain
way or manner of
living with regard to conditions,
circumstances, character, conduct, trade or profession.
the
union of the
soul and body; also, the
duration of their union;
sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of
the soul.
enjoyment in the
right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in
the favor of
God; heavenly felicity.
the potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of any thing that is conceived of as resembling a
natural organism in
structure or functions; as,
the life of a state, a
machine, or a
book.
the potential
principle, or
force, by which the
organs of animals and
plants are started and continued in the performance of
their several and cooperative functions; the vital
force, whether regarded as
physical or spiritual.
the property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from
dead organisms and
inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as
metabolism, growth, reproduction, and
response to stimuli or adaptation to the
environment
originating from
within the organism.
the state of being which begins with generation, birth, or
germination, and ends with
death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an
animal or plant in which
all or any of its organs are capable of performing
all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal
and vegetable organisms.
"Why even I myself often think I know little or
nothing of my real life
..."- Walt Whitman
being
"When we begin to view life as other than a zero-sum game where my gain is
your loss, then the struggle against the world loses motivation and instead of
trying to control life,
we let it in." - Charles Eisenstein
An
individual.
Lifetime; mortal existence.
The totality of all
things that exist.
The state or quality of having
existence.
All the qualities constituting
one that exists; the essence.
To exist
actually, or on the earth of
fact; to have existence. To exist in
actuality; have life or reality.
Some thing, such as an object, an idea, or a
symbol, that exists, is
thought to exist, or
is represented as existing.
That which
exists in any
form, whether it be
material or spiritual,
actual or ideal;
living existence,
as distinguished from an object
without life; as, a human being;
spiritual beings.
beTo take place; to
happen .
To
exist in a certain manner or
relation.
To signify; to
represent or symbolize; to
answer to.
to beUsage: The verb to be, except in
a few rare case, like that of Shakespeare's ``To be, or not to be'', is used
simply as a copula, to connect a subject with its predicate; as,
man is mortal; the soul is immortal. The verb to
exist is never properly used as a mere copula, but
points to things that
stand forth, or have a
substantive being.
See
Separation from Nature
See
Ralph Waldo Emerson
See
Rachel Carson
See
Chris McKay
See
Empathy
See
What is Life? No one knows.
SeeThe myth of Life or learning to live
See
Natural Law or the Law of God
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