Our physical forms are always changing. Either growing or shrinking. All our cells are splitting and replicating and dying together in an continuous cycle. The present, our life right now is just a snapshot into a stage of a complex series of activities. Life itself should be thought of as a process, not a thing.
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“You can think of your life like this. The growing tip is the present moment—your lived experience of now—which gnaws into the future as it advances. The history of your life is the rest of the hypha, the blue lines that you’ve left in a tangled trail behind you. A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The “you” of five years ago was made from different stuff than the “you” of today. Nature is an event that never stops. As William Bateson, who coined the word genetics, observed, “We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.” When we see an organism, from a fungus to a pine tree, we catch a single moment in its continual development.”
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The Only Solution Is To Keep Going
Reference
Book: Entangled Life Author: Merlin Sheldrake Location: 909