Upwards
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It literally propels you
upwards.
And so the final question that we would ask is: can we collectively bend that happiness chart
upwards?
A study by the Economic Commission for Africa showed a clear trend
upwards
in governance in 28 African countries.
There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards, the staircase, bringing us into wholeness, authenticity, and wisdom.
It needs a hospital whose budget can allow it to support one machine costing
upwards
of 50 or $100,000.
All of that light that gets scattered outwards and
upwards
doesn't actually help you light the area around you.
And also, even though it's plotted on a log curve on the left, it's curving
upwards.
The staircase takes us from the experience of life as profane or ordinary
upwards
to the experience of life as sacred, or deeply interconnected.
We need to look at it from the ground
upwards.
So it was evolving
upwards.
And that simple motion of forwards and upwards, it's the most basic direction of progress we humans recognize.
And it will cost you
upwards
of a billion dollars for that one success.
There's a firefighter that's stuck, actually, in traffic, and so the firefighters themselves are running a mile and a half to the site itself with
upwards
of 70 pounds of gear on their back.
Sadness is indicated by the inner corners of the eyebrows being drawn inwards and upwards, drooping eyes, and a downturned mouth.
We know how to turn that curve back
upwards.
This means that if we take that fishery catch that's on the decline and we could turn it upwards, we could increase it up to 100 million metric tons per year.
Others come from the underbelly of society, never given a chance to mobilize upwards: foster care dropouts, teenage runaways escaping abuse and unforgiving homes.
Now, Gaza, Syria, Sudan, Ukraine, as ghastly as these conflicts are, and they are horrific, they represent a relatively small blip
upwards
in a 50-year-long secular decline.
Weighing one to 10 billion times the mass of our own sun, these galactic black holes are devouring material, at a rate of
upwards
of 1,000 times more than your "average" supermassive black hole.
But our [sun] is one of hundreds of billions of stars and our galaxy is one of
upwards
of hundreds of billions of galaxies.
In fact, the natural world is organized hierarchically upwards, not downwards, but upwards, and we begin with a self-regulating, semi-autonomous unit called a cell.
What's nice about this scheme, this hierarchical scheme building
upwards
rather than downwards, is that it allows us to think about illness as well in a somewhat different way.
Again, moving
upwards
along this hierarchical chain of organization.
On top of all that, the ocean contains
upwards
of 99% of the world's biosphere, that is, the spaces and places where life exists.
Your center of mass moves
upwards.
But also realize, even when you're in those days, with 28,000 people a day, even those days when you're in there with all those other people, look around you and think how amazing it is that some painted plaster from 500 years ago can still draw all those people standing side by side with you, looking
upwards
with their jaws dropped.
Firstly, the sprouting hair we see is mostly made up of keratin, the protein leftover from dead cells that are forced
upwards
as new cells grow beneath them.
But to understand how this precious metal became embedded in our planet to start with, we have to gaze
upwards
at the stars.
Sperm must swim up the vagina, through the cervical opening,
upwards
through the uterus, and into one of the two fallopian tubes.
The ball is supposed to be pulled
upwards
by the magnet at the top, fall back down through the hole, and repeat the cycle.
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