Cycles of Time

Think about how a tiny seed turns into a tree, drops more seeds, and then those seeds grow into new trees. The universe loves to do things in circles! The sun goes down but always comes back up. Winter turns into spring every single year. This tells us that ending something is just the start of something new. You do not have to be afraid of things changing because the world is always spinning forward into a new beginning. You are part of a giant never-ending dance that has been going on forever.

Ending something is just the start of something new. The water in your glass was once a cloud. Before that it was an ocean. Before that it was a river. Before that it was rain. Before that it was a cloud. The water does not end. The water changes costumes. You do not end. You change costumes. The universe has been running the same play with the same atoms for fourteen billion years. The cast keeps changing but the atoms are the original cast. You are wearing atoms that were once inside a dinosaur. You are wearing atoms that were once inside a star. Nothing is lost. Everything is recycled. The circle never breaks.

Conformal cyclic cosmology (Penrose): infinite iterations of expansion. Challenges the linear arrow of time. The eternal return shifts focus from terminal endpoint to continuous transformation. Matter is never lost, only rearranged in different costumes across time. Nothing is lost. Everything is recycled. The circle never breaks.

SOUND: A clock tick-tock or a rhythmic drumbeat: time keeping its own time.

SMELL: A decaying leaf in fall that will feed flowers in spring: death and birth sharing a scent.

TASTE: An orange with seeds inside that want to grow again: the future hiding in the present.

TOUCH: Tracing a circle on your palm over and over: infinity under your fingertip.

SIGHT: A flower blooming in time-lapse: proof that endings and beginnings are the same frame.

BODY: A deep breath in and out — noticing the air you exhale is what trees inhale: your body proving the cycle with every breath.

Music: Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin

Music: Digging in the Dirt by Peter Gabriel

Part of Creation — RELIGION — Education Revelation