Everything

Lyrics

I watch me nibble my spring buds
My roots press deep into my muds
I breathe me in, I am the air
I am everywhere

Chorus:

I’ve no boundaries at my skin
I am all outside and all that's within
I am birdsong and I sing
I am everything, everything
I am everything, everything

I am the boards beneath my feet
Through cottonwood I smell my sweet
I sense me stirring in ground
I am all around

I greet my self upon my way
We speak and contemplate our day
We know ourselves through other eyes
We are butterflies, worms divine

Chorus:

We’ve no boundaries at our skin
We are all outside and all that's within
We are birdsong and we sing
We are everything, everything
We are everything, everything

Notes

This is a song of the ecological self, a widened sense of who "I" or "we" are. "We know ourselves through other eyes," says Light Bear, who wrote this song on a walking meditation in the Nisqually Delta, in Washington State.

The chorus is easy to sing and embodies Seeing with New Eyes.

Music and lyrics by Light Bear. Used with permission.

Full song (courtesy of performer):

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Live version, teaching chorus:

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