Karma and Chaos Quotes

“As a scientific fact, I know I am alive only inside the body of life. Physically, I am aware of myself as a product of other lives—parents, ancestors. I breathe the oxygen created by plants, so that, as I breathe in and out, I am a tube connected to the whole life of the biosphere, a tiny, dependent digit. Through digestion and metabolism I”
― Paul R. Fleischman, Karma and Chaos: New and Collected Essays on Vipassana Meditation

“by plants and animals, which I call food, into other biochemicals with which I mold this form called my body, which is constantly, continuously being remolded, reformed, like a cloud. And this form will eventually cease its regeneration and vanish, as it arose, from causes, forces in nature.”
― Paul R. Fleischman, Karma and Chaos: New and Collected Essays on Vipassana Meditation