Tat Tvam Asi

From the uncarved block [Tao Te Ching] to the burning star [Cosmology/modern science], From the river’s mouth [Bhagavad Gita / Upanishads] to the raincloud’s jar [Ecology / Psalms], One breath moves through the lion and lamb [Bible – Isaiah] , The bee and the hive [Marcus Aurelius / Stoicism], the seed and the hand [Gospel of Thomas / Agriculture as universal metaphor]. Verse 2 Light in the lamp [Rumi], in the sun [Psalms 19], in the spark [Upanishads / physics imagery], Song of the meadow [Thoreau – Walden] and the deep sea’s dark [Ecology], The Body has many [1 Corinthians 12], the Many are one [Bhagavad Gita 13:27], The roots drink together when the rivers run [Upanishads / Tao Te Ching]. Chorus You are part of the whole, and the whole is part of you [Marcus Aurelius / Stoicism / modern systems theory], The drop is the ocean, and the ocean’s in the dew [Rumi / Bhagavad Gita], No eye can divide what the heart already knew [Gospel of Thomas / John 17], We are woven into one [Bible / Ecclesiastes imagery + weaving metaphors from many traditions]. Verse 3 Tat tvam asi, the prophets cried [Upanishads / Hebrew prophets], Logos breathing on the tide [John 1 / Stoicism], Entangled threads in the cosmic loom [Quantum physics / weaving imagery from Vedic texts], Echoes ring from the birth of the moon [Cosmology / Psalms]. Verse 4 Every hand a builder’s hand [Bhagavad Gita – karma yoga / Gospel carpenter imagery], Every step a pilgrim’s land [Islamic and Christian pilgrimage traditions], The hive, the vine, the wheel, the flame [Marcus Aurelius / Bible – John 15 vine metaphor / Buddhist wheel of dharma / Zoroastrian fire], All turning, all calling the same one name [Bhagavad Gita 9:23 / Rumi]. Chorus You are part of the whole, and the whole is part of you [Marcus Aurelius / Stoicism / modern ecology], The drop is the ocean, and the ocean’s in the dew [Rumi], No eye can divide what the heart already knew [Gospel of Thomas / John 17], We are woven into one [Biblical + indigenous weaving metaphors]. Bridge Breathe in the sky, breathe out the stone [Stoic and Taoist breath imagery + indigenous Earth connection], The Self in the other, the known in the unknown [Buddhist non-duality / Upanishads], As rivers to the sea, as sparks to the fire [Bhagavad Gita / Chandogya Upanishad], All that you are is all that you sire [Gita karma / ecological feedback loops]. Final Chorus (extended) You are part of the whole, and the whole is part of you [Marcus Aurelius / modern systems theory], The seed is the forest, and the forest’s in the root [Ecology / Tao Te Ching], No word can divide what the silence makes true [Upanishads / Christian mysticism], We are woven… into one [Bible / weaving imagery across cultures].