| We’re all one but try sleeping with a porcupine. We’re all one but try using an umbrella in 50-mph winds. We’re all one but my aura is my first line of self-defense. E pluribus unum – "Out of many, one" a form of colonization but i think they reversed it* because out of The One come the many . . . I Me My He Him His She Her Hers Them We Us Anima Animus “I am what I am” “I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are” “I am because we are” “I'm in you, you're in me” Tat Tvam Asi – "I am that too" or “Thou art that” “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together” “We are stardust We are golden And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden” We’re like 75% water so the garden needs us, and we’re made of air and breathing, and that spark of unseen, and “Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth, and everything on this planet is made up of the same things.” The dice get rolled birthing many combos all from two dice yet only one hand rolling. What is the sound of one hand rolling dice? What is the sound of one hand holding another and another and another . . . . . Why would you label yourself a pro noun — a professional object or thing — when you can be a verb actively doing something, reaching out with helping hands. NOTES: * “The phrase is similar to a Latin translation of a variation of Heraclitus's tenth fragment, "The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one.” See here. & quotes, in order:
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