Oneness of Infinity

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So Many Paths...

 

 

One Holy Destination

 

 

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Hello Lady Joyce -

 

What a great photo! No doubt, a path of peace.

 

love,

joyce

 

PS - I sent an email to the Wall Street Journal tonight

(opinionjournal) in support of Poets Against the War. Part of

what I sent is this:

 

"Carl Sagan eloquently made the case for dealing more kindly with

each other and cherishing the only Earth we will ever have in Pale

Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Random House, 1994).

He writes:

 

"... Look again at that dot. 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.

 

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.

 

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In

our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will

come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

 

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is

nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could

migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment

the Earth is where we make our stand.

 

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building

experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of

human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it

underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another,

and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've

ever known."

 

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html "

 

 

, "Lady Joyce" <ladyjoy@v...>

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> One Holy Destination