Breathing and sleep: incomprehensible
Albert Schweitzer composed a lovely prayer while preschool age: “O, heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace.”
It raises for me the question of whether all things which have breath also sleep, and perhaps vice versa. If creatures from other planets did not have anything like respiration nor sleep, it would be a state utterly incomprehensible to us.
So too incomprehensible for us would be a species that not have communion with others of their kind.
These are all things so interwoven with us that we might rightly see them as defining us.
:- Doug.
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