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We search for life among the stars.

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Yet we touch it every day.

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And overlook how extraordinary it is.

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Look closely. Water turns to ice. Melts.

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Plunges into the depths.

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It shapes landscapes.

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And in your cells, it enables the chemistry of life.

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You don't merely stand apart from this world.

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You belong to it.

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Deep within your own body.

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I spent years gathering answers.

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In science, in spiritual teachings, within myself.

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But understanding more

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did not yet mean living more consciously.

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My work began with a pause.

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What if I don't need to find what is most precious?

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What if I need to learn to notice it again?

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That is why I call water the Holy Grail.

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To me, it reveals the preciousness of what sustains us every day.

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By the water of forgetting, I mean a metaphor:

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We take without noticing.

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We consume without feeling connected.

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We chase the next great experience.

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And lose sight of the life right before us.

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To me, remembering means recovering that awareness.

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Science, too, has more to discover.

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Researchers are studying molecular hydrogen:

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a gas that can dissolve in water.

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Early studies in humans explore possible health effects.

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Others show no clinical benefit for the condition studied.

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This is a research question.

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Not yet a promise of better health.

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I am fascinated by what we might still discover.

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That is precisely why I want to distinguish carefully:

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What do we know?

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What do we suspect?

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And what do I wish for so deeply that I would like to believe it?

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For me, wonder and honest inquiry belong together.

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But I want my search to go further.

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To how I treat what is alive.

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This Earth.

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Another person. Myself.

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What good is the most beautiful idea of connection

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if I overlook the person in front of me?

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Perhaps our answer begins quite quietly.

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We stop. Listen.

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Give some of our time.

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And something we had begun to take for granted

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becomes precious again.

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That is why my work begins with water.

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It reminds me that life is a gift.

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And that gratitude can lead to action.

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What would you treat differently today

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if you could see its value again?

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Remember.