3.5 BILLION BEATS

3.5 BILLION BEATS

In the fourth century B. C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle identified the heart as the most important organ of the body.

The drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, probably from the 1490s, illustrates the typical Renaissance image of the heart.

The hearth works ceaselessly, beating 100,000 times a day, 40 million times a year—in total clocking up three billion heartbeats over an average lifetime.

Nature has a heart.

Every star, every birdsong, every blade of grass, every human emotion vibrates with a universal pulse of life energy. Our own human heartbeat mirrors this divine process. 

With every rhythmic beat, our heart pulse the love at our core into the world around us and in nature itself. That pulse connects human hearts around the globe, whether we recognize it or not. 

The universal heartbeat animates life on Earth and throughout the cosmos. That living pulse permeates every aspect of our lives. Our cells are made of the same stuff as the stars we gaze at in the night skies. The light of the sun is the light in our own eyes. We are all connected, in every possible way, with nature because we are made of the same material of the entire universe, we are one interdipendent organism : a divine creation that allows spirit, to experience itself in form. We are that form. 

As Joni Mitchell once wrote, “We are stardust, we are golden.” 

With our heart bit we are connect to the universe of nature, and we know it.

We became as One. As we are nature. What a miracle to be alive.

You couldn’t escape that immanent presence even if you tried. You can, however, live your life unconscious of it. Our life purpose, we humans on planet Earth at this transformational time, is to become fully aware of the sacred source energy within us and all around us. We have one Mother, Mother’s Nature. 

We are star seeds standing at the edge of the cosmos reaching into infinity.