It’s far to easy to get dragged into the daily tumult of life on our planet, and that’s a mistake. Life here must be dealt with, but our minds and imaginations also need to get beyond it. We need distant stars to guide by… points of reference beyond of the mayhem. As psychologist Carl Jung noted,

It is possible to have an attitude toward the external conditions of life only when there is a point of reference outside them.

We need to see ourselves outside and above from time to time, just to keep our minds in a healthy state.

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So, before turning back to the mundane, let your imagination spend a few minutes with this image. Turn down the lights and enlarge it. See yourself in the position of this astronaut: Floating, untethered, in the enormity of space, looking down on a world full of life… a tiny island of thriving inside an vast eternity.