“If it’s true that we are all from the center of a star, every atom in each of us from the center of a star, then we’re all the same thing. Even a coke machine or a cigarette butt in the street in Buffalo, is made out of atoms that came from a star… they have all recycled thousands of times, as have you and I. And therefore, its only me out there, so what is there to be afraid of? What is there that needs solace seeking? Nothing. There is nothing to be afraid of because it’s all us. The trouble is we have been separated by being born and given a name and an identity and being individuated. We have been separated from the oneness and that’s what religion exploits… that people have this yearning to be part of the overall one again. So they exploit that. They call it ‘God’ and they say he has rules… and I think that’s cruel. I think you can do it absent religion.”

George Carlin (1937-2008)

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#stars

#cosmos

#universe

#george carlin

#comedy

#wisdom

#sadness

#carl sagan

#religion

#atheism

#science
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