I would like to share my friend's Cheryl Kondratow, quite eloquent summary of my simplistic transformative view of life.
"Yes, very simple.
Everything just keeps transforming. And part of it is voluntary and part of it is involuntary. Because every single thing that happens does so in conjunction with everything else. There’s no action that’s isolated and independent from every other action in this moment.
Like you’re driving your car through an intersection and another car tbones you. There was no awareness of the other car. But it was happening at the same moment
When the leaves fall off the trees they are in synch with all of nature in the one moment.
John’s life pattern was in synch with everything else in the moment.
Stephen Hawking lived in a totally dysfunctional body except for his thinking and some senses and the organs needed for life. And that was in such with everything else in the moment. From the field of infinite possibilities we have a Stephen Hawking that happened in this moment.
We don’t need to know why the ant is doing what it’s doing. It’s enough to watch him do it. "
I just want to add that if you are to observe a swamp, a pond and a running brook - they are so different. In the running brook, the water is clear versus the swamp, for example. Yet, there is seemingly so much activity in a swamp or a pond. There is much to observe - a whole universe in a microcosm!