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Friday 2 November 2012

The Pale Blue Dot

You are god is the sense that you ARE everything in existence, You are like a ripple in the ocean thinking it's separate from the ocean, when you are the whole ocean and any separation is merely an illusion.


"What you are doing, is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now." --Alan Watt.




"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light." 


The Earth from 4 billion miles away.  This picture was taken by Voyager 1 in 1991 as it approached the outer limits of our solar system. 

“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”



- Carl Sagan, from a lecture delivered at Cornell University: 10/13/94

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