Orion magazine has a meditation on the vastness of the universe that’s worth thinking on.
“To sense that behind anything that can be experienced,” Einstein once said, “there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness.”
Whatever we believe in–God, children, nationhood–nothing can be more important than to take a moment every now and then and accept the invitation of the sky: to leave the confines of ourselves and fly off into the hugeness of the universe, to disappear into the inexplicable, the implacable, the reflection of that something our minds cannot grasp.
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1 Ed Bilodeau // Jul 11, 2007 at 12:20 pm
The fact that more and more people can’t see the night sky is a problem, since they will never have a chance to regularly contemplate this vastness, nor be properly humbled. — EB
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