Religion is defined as a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.

• Life is precious, marvelous, exotic, wonderful, sad, scary, everything, and without it, nothing is.
• It is the most important thing in the universe, perhaps the rarest and most unique thing in the universe.
• Nothing exists without life to perceive it.
  • Does a tree make a sound if it falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it. Without the listener, it makes a       vibration; it takes life to turn it into a sound.
  • Sound is a sense of perceiving. Life is there to give the vibration a name and meaning.
• All life is interconnected, a web that expands from the smallest one-cell creature to the elephant in the forest, to the unknown in the universe.
  • H2O is the matrix in which life is given birth, in which it struggles and eventually dies.
    • We are mostly water
    • The water that is in you today could have been inside a lion a few years ago or a dinosaur.
  • All the creatures around you have similar DNA
  • Mitochondrial Eve
  • All life is transient, impermanent, temporary. We all die.
• We all suffer.
  • Life if a series of joys and sorrows. Arriving and departing.
  • We have common well-being and interdependence. We magnify each other's joys and sorrows.
  • If the bacteria in your gut,       which outnumber your human cells, are not healthy, you suffer or even       die.
  • There is more of what you call "other" inside of you than what you call yourself.
  • So why is your goal not to provide a good home for the bacteria inside of you?
  • Outside of yourself, the tree provides you with the oxygen you breathe in your common home. If you or your neighbor kills the trees, you both suffer.
  • My well-being depends on the well-being of all life on this planet and your well-being.
  • We either learn to cooperate with the other 7 billion people and trillions of creatures on the planet are we all suffer more or even die.
  • .Life's function can be observed. the function of life is to perpetuate life and more specifically, life seeks to perpetuate itself, more precisely, its evolved self. A creature as nearly like itself that can survive in the current environment. It perpetuates the species

  What is my religion?
• My religion is to nurture my wonderment, my joy in the life that surrounds me.
• My religion is to hold your hand and travel with you on this marvelous one-time journey called life
• My religion is to love life and to love those that treasure this journey with me
• I pray that I am present and attentive and able to leave my fears behind me.
• And that I see the beauty and sacred in you, namaste.