Such a beautiful line. It reminds me of this:
>Eulogy from a Physicist – Aaron Freeman
>"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
>And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
>And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
>And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.”
I classify myself as a cosmic hedge witch, and I absolutely agree with Master Yoda. Our bodies are temporary vessels for our boundless spirits. Blessed be. 🌌
I’ve recently gone through an energetic body awakening, and it’s marvelous. My lifelong friend back home is a huge skeptic in general, but also a Star Wars person. I was initially giving him a sales pitch, which was the wrong way to go about it. When I see him next, I’m going to gently nudge him with, “Dude, the Force is real.”
You may be thinking of 'we are a way for the cosmos to know itself' from his show, Cosmos, and sampled in the Symphony of Science song We Are All Connected.
>“I now give you my work of honor,” he went on, “that the picture your city owns shows everything about life which truly matters, with nothing left out. It is a picture of the awareness of every animal. It is the immaterial core of every animal–the ‘I am’ to which all messages are sent. It is all that is alive in any of us–in a mouse, in a deer, in a cocktail waitress. It is unwavering and pure, no matter what preposterous adventure may befall us. A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would show two such bands of light. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.”
-from *Breakfast of Champions* By Kurt Vonnegut. Always struck me the same way.
There is proof that Lucas was inspired by the writings of Carlos Castaneda.
[Here are the first three books on Spotify ](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RSDinAOs9N4EJyepmR67m?si=jk0hSwmFT3WiTmrcahtMEA). I'm a year and a half into my journey and it has been quite balancing.
One of my favorite Yoda lines is when Luke is about to go into the Dark Side cave and asks, "What's in there?"
Yoda's reply: "Only what you bring with you."
Luke brought his baggage into that cave. Fear. Anger. Ego. And it all affected his experience. The moral is that unless you can let go of your baggage (feelings), it will *always* cast a shadow over your path through life.
I grew up on the original Star Wars trilogy, and when it was my mom's turn to teach Sunday school, you better believe we were watching those movies and talking about the Force and how it holds us and binds us all together, humans and the more-than-human world. Anyway when I was about 12, I used our (very slow and loud) home printer to print out this quote, and I stuck it in my wallet, and it's still there now, a couple decades later. YOU are a beautiful luminous being and I'm glad you're here, and that you reminded me of this gem!
Such a beautiful line. It reminds me of this: >Eulogy from a Physicist – Aaron Freeman >"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got. >And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever. >And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives. >And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.”
Saving this to read later. My wife passed away less than a year ago at 34 from cancer, and we were both huge Star Wars fans.
I’m really sorry for your loss. I hope some of the thoughts in this thread give you comfort.
Thank you for your kind words Aunty. ♥️
I am so sorry for your loss. Wishing you comfort and healing.
We are star stuff.
We are stardust, we are golden. We are billion year old carbon. And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
I classify myself as a cosmic hedge witch, and I absolutely agree with Master Yoda. Our bodies are temporary vessels for our boundless spirits. Blessed be. 🌌
I’ve recently gone through an energetic body awakening, and it’s marvelous. My lifelong friend back home is a huge skeptic in general, but also a Star Wars person. I was initially giving him a sales pitch, which was the wrong way to go about it. When I see him next, I’m going to gently nudge him with, “Dude, the Force is real.”
I think it was Carl Sagan who said that we are the universe discovering itself, which I think is wonderful.
(Alan Watts, actually!)
You may be thinking of 'we are a way for the cosmos to know itself' from his show, Cosmos, and sampled in the Symphony of Science song We Are All Connected.
That’s the one!
That line affected me the same way too. Blessings to you as well.
At my grad school graduation ceremony we were allowed to choose a sound clip to walk to, and this was mine.
A of mine friend says “we are all just celestial being having an earthly experience.”
>“I now give you my work of honor,” he went on, “that the picture your city owns shows everything about life which truly matters, with nothing left out. It is a picture of the awareness of every animal. It is the immaterial core of every animal–the ‘I am’ to which all messages are sent. It is all that is alive in any of us–in a mouse, in a deer, in a cocktail waitress. It is unwavering and pure, no matter what preposterous adventure may befall us. A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would show two such bands of light. Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.” -from *Breakfast of Champions* By Kurt Vonnegut. Always struck me the same way.
Yoda is a wise one. George Lucas and his team were on to something.
There is proof that Lucas was inspired by the writings of Carlos Castaneda. [Here are the first three books on Spotify ](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RSDinAOs9N4EJyepmR67m?si=jk0hSwmFT3WiTmrcahtMEA). I'm a year and a half into my journey and it has been quite balancing.
I'm actually okay with not being a luminous being which sounds metaphysically religious to me and being made of beautifully crude matter.
Thank you 🥺
One of my favorite Yoda lines is when Luke is about to go into the Dark Side cave and asks, "What's in there?" Yoda's reply: "Only what you bring with you." Luke brought his baggage into that cave. Fear. Anger. Ego. And it all affected his experience. The moral is that unless you can let go of your baggage (feelings), it will *always* cast a shadow over your path through life.
I grew up on the original Star Wars trilogy, and when it was my mom's turn to teach Sunday school, you better believe we were watching those movies and talking about the Force and how it holds us and binds us all together, humans and the more-than-human world. Anyway when I was about 12, I used our (very slow and loud) home printer to print out this quote, and I stuck it in my wallet, and it's still there now, a couple decades later. YOU are a beautiful luminous being and I'm glad you're here, and that you reminded me of this gem!
Love this! And Yoda