New Renaissance of Humanity. We are all in this together, radiating together. I started out my day with an email from a colleague who was worried about his workload getting bigger. On the same lines, is a corollary metaphor looking at the opposite end of the spectrum, the microcosm. supun, thanks for sharing the yuotube video. DailyGood - A little bit of good news everyday! That's us. I find myself grinning at this idea, simply because I cannot fathom the notion of toe people and foot people. Then I paused, and reflected, and found a deeper intention to be of service, and responded by acknowledging both the intention to serve and justifying the present. We need to take responsibility to love the earth and those on it, not just those we know... My husband passed away from ALS six weeks ago. We are insignificant and yet so special, so small and yet so giant. Where Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Resource Based Economies, and Geekery Ooze Forth From My Digital Brainbow!

Star Stuff. Pavi also noted that it was ironical that although our insignificance should be depressing us, in our circle, we felt pretty good about it :). There is little difference genetically speaking among the rest of animal kingdom and us; it is more and more known that orangutans have feelings, psychological problems, responsibilities as a community members, they take care of each other, they are even nonviolent! Now, as far as people are concerned, I do consider Carl Sagan amazing, gifted, and prophetic. That's us. We need to remake our system of values, so we can live in a world that works for all. This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. This is one of the most profound realizations humans have ever done: the oxygen that we breathe, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our skin, the water in our cells, the iron in our blood all come from star stuff... Finally a story. Learn how your comment data is processed. On that note, may we all fly to follow our hearts!

Not sure if everyone really knows whathe means with it, I did. Afterwards, my messages of sustainably and Conscious Capitalism get across much more easily. That's what we are. As usual, the Berkeley posse of satyagrahis was ready to carpool to Santa Clara but this time there were not enough cars to carry all the crew (8 of us), so Chris, Yi-An and I joyously volunteered to give away our spots (so that you know, sister Yi-An has been the first one to RSVP -before the weekly passage is sent!- for the last month!). The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. And yet, the tiniest of my problem becomes my world. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. 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. On our deathbed, how would we look back at our life? Copyright © 1994 by Carl Sagan, Copyright © 2006 by Democritus Properties, LLC. From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. this is one of my favorite audio excepts. The more we search and the more we come up empty, the rarer life becomes in the universe. 2. Hmm.. Here are some of the 4 major sections of the video in case you want to skip around a bit: …although I will post the Pale Blue Dot part in the next section for further use. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. As I saw the clear sky, Sagan's metaphor opened up.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. I understand how my unity works at the cellular level. "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.". Thank you for the best day yesterday: great bike ride; loved seeing Kelly; meeting Brian - very nice guy; and spending time with you. We all have the potential to shine like a star. The message is still very clear, as Gandhi said: “The Earth has enough to satisfy everyone’s needs but not everyone’s greed.” There are enough resources for everyone but to cling to neoliberal policies, to the oppressive-imperial system, to the totalitarianism of corporate capitalism is useless. My initial reaction was defensive - I have a bigger workload, and I could think of many reasons why things had to be better for me.

If you'd like to suggest a thought or want to drop us a suggestion, drop us a note. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. He is a powerful and gifted speaker, and a prolific author who was able to explain more complicated concepts so that people can understand them. What if the toe people held grudges against the foot people, thinking, "you aren't giving us enough resources. I was reflecting on everything and suddenly realized that I'd made everything in my life so important that other people's problems were not in my circle of concern anymore. When we are in toe-consciousness, we cannot see the organism that we're connected to. I have the youtube clip bookmarked and I always come back and take a listen whenever my head is somewhere else.

My husband was kind above all else, and this passage spoke to him because "...it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot..." He considered himself an atheist, yet he was more spiritual than most people I know.

I am really thankful to each of you for sharing the video , your thoughts and helping other readers learn so much. His life and death were exercises in kindness, and this passage underscores that kindness for all of us. No way.

He realized how artificial the borders are that we have created, because from space, there are none.

The following excerpt from Carl Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on 14 February 1990.

We are getting even closer!

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. And, there is ALWAYS a bigger perspective. Pavi said that we stand on the shoulders of the previous generation - it is thanks to them that we can go further.

It's good to be reminded once in a while. Since my awareness is at the level of the organism, I recognize the underlying unity immediately.

If we look at our bodies, composed of millions of cells, we can start to imagine the lives of our cells. To the hair, it is birth, trauma and death. To build on this, I feel that the dark and the bright dots are part of the same organism, so in order not to let the dark dots overwhelm us, we have to glow even brighter.

Reading The New Human Rights Movement on Stream?!?!? After watching that I was inspired to recreate one with visuals which more closely reflected the actual word.

I did not find this quote (it comes with a video of earth that is seen as just a speck in the big black universe) until after Dad passed away but, after I read it, I understood better what he meant. Perhaps (though unlikely), the ancients were correct and we are actually unique in the universe. Visit, yes. BANG! Thanks to the magic of the electron land and the prodigious skills of brother Somik, I could read some of your insights and lovely reflections. I think we need to read this everyday. We need to get working on this. The toe metaphor points drives home the significance of each part. At another level, Sagan's metaphor drives our ego into insignificance. The first season is available for pay on: My daughter and I have watched this series quite a few times while it was on Netflix. Hope you have a great time in Georgian Bay! It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. I'm also infinitely grateful that we are able to share the Wednesday's treasure with more and more people.

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Here is a link to the Pale Blue Dot section of his speech (video below).

- Give and Recieve. Join fellow space enthusiasts in advancing space science and exploration. When Galileo discovered the fascinating worlds of Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io orbiting Jupiter, the perspective of Humanity changed forever.

i.e the Host is saying ' not me, but you ' to the Guest ! 1. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. Indeed, he is right. 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.-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 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. So, here it is again: On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. Can we love the earth and each other enough to live from a higher moral principle? On Tuesday, everything went contrary to my expectations. Whenever someone upsets me, John asks me why I am letting them rent precious space in my brain for free. 9 – Note the Campaign Extras You are Using. What if we take the awareness of the larger being with the biggest perspective possible and then examine the littlest of things. =). It was I who was suffering as a result. He is also Neil deGrasse Tyson’s personal mentor and hero too. Why you need to vote in EVERY… Single… Election! India central government is purposely shutting down all archaeological sites (e.g keezhadi in Tamil naadu), Tamil language is full of untapped knowledge.

For a little more land, a little more oil, or simply because they worship different Gods.

How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. In the middle of the awe and wonder of the Cosmos it is easy, for me, to make the connection that we all are luminous beings. The first hour is his speech, the very last part of which is the famous Pale Blue Dot speech. The great spirit is a comfortable image.

--Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 Settle, not yet. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. To the larger being, hair falling and growing again is not a big deal. Yes.. sure puts things back into perspective. The total video is 1 hour and 36 minutes long. It took this picture from 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away. I was not at all disappointed. Significance and insignificance are two sides of the same coin, and not contradictory ideas. When we humans start to take into account the great diversity of the Cosmos, for example, when we look for planets not only around stars like the Sun but around all stars ⎯of course, including the most numerous⎯ we are rewarded. Currently, we have found close to 400 exoplanets! Can we bring that awareness and live each moment that way? KindSpring - a portal of small acts of kindness. She felt that acts of service and genuine compassion are little bright dots.

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