Everything and Nothing

from sa'vänt by Anthony Chiles

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Everything and nothing, all at once,

Time stands still because time only exists in the present,
And ideally, we would like to think we are who we say we are,
But, more than likely, we're not,
The things we do often don't align with the things that we would like to do,
Our ideology and our actions are often as far apart as the star is from the earth,
But that doesn't mean they don't affect each other,
Just like Sun shines its rays down on the beautiful globe every day,
What we intend to do shines light on our actions every single day,

Ideally, we will live a life where who we are is who we wanna be,
But until then, we're just striving to be the best we can,
And that dissonance,
That disconnect,
That struggle,
For harmony,
For peace,
Is ever present,

It's a hard reality to accept that we aren't the people who we say we are,
But it's an even harder reality to deny it,

Nothing and everything, always present, always there,

It's funny how science is really lining up with what spiritual leaders have been saying for eons,
In that, we are made up of space,
Even in between the atoms,
It's just, it's nothing but space,
And there's nothing connected,
And at the same time, it is connected,
And for some strange reason,
We exist,
In this paradigm,
Where when nothing touches, but everything touches one another,

Everything and nothing, all at once,

And there's nothing better than acceptance,
And realizing that the way things are are just the way things are,
It is what it is,
And there's no need to try and change it,
Or try to make it anything different,
Just accept,
And live,
Live in this moment,
Live in this time,
Live in this observation of the world that we know,
Because everything else is outside of reality,
And if we're not conscious,
If we're not aware,
Then, what does it mean,

Maybe one day we will ascend to a place where we can be beings of a higher order,
But until then, it's the best we've got,

Everything and nothing, all at once.

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from sa'vänt, released September 13, 2016
Written by Anthony Chiles.
Produced by Erick Richardson.
Album art by NASA.

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