In expanding our references, we create a great contrast with which to evaluate life and possibility. If
you've been magnifying your problems out of proportion, consider this: we live in a galaxy that
contains several hundred thousand million stars. Then realize that we live in a universe that has
several hundred thousand million galaxies. In other words, there are several hundred thousand million
suns in our galaxy alone. And all of these suns have planets revolving around them as well!
Think of the magnitude. The stars in our galaxy make one turn around the Milky Way's axis only once
every several hundred million years. When you think about the immensity of this universe, and then
look at the life span of an average human being (generously about eighty years), does it give you a
different perspective? The human life span is but a speck170 in time. And yet people worry themselves
to death about things like how they're going to pay the mortgage, what kind of car they drive,
or how their next business meeting will go.
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
you've been magnifying your problems out of proportion, consider this: we live in a galaxy that
contains several hundred thousand million stars. Then realize that we live in a universe that has
several hundred thousand million galaxies. In other words, there are several hundred thousand million
suns in our galaxy alone. And all of these suns have planets revolving around them as well!
Think of the magnitude. The stars in our galaxy make one turn around the Milky Way's axis only once
every several hundred million years. When you think about the immensity of this universe, and then
look at the life span of an average human being (generously about eighty years), does it give you a
different perspective? The human life span is but a speck170 in time. And yet people worry themselves
to death about things like how they're going to pay the mortgage, what kind of car they drive,
or how their next business meeting will go.
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
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