Nonduality

“It’s a Buddhist concept. Nonduality. It’s about oneness, about how things that seem to be separate are really connected to one another. There are no separations…This is not just a piece of wood. This is also the clouds that brought the rain that watered the tree, and the birds that nested in it and the squirrels that fed on its nuts. It is also the food my grandparents fed me that made me strong enough to cut the tree, and it’s the steel in the axe I used. And it’s how you know your fox, which allowed you to carve him yesterday. And it’s the story you will tell your children when you give this to them. All these things are separate but also one, inseparable. Do you see?”

― Sara Pennypacker, Pax