In past times it was common for people to find a comfortable position and just look at the stars for hours at a time. We’ve lost that practice in modern times, but we do at least have powerful telescopes. This photo, of a small section of the sky, shows galaxies upon galaxies. The scope of it is difficult to grasp, and so we won’t bother with numbers.

Our universe is enormous; it is filled with stars planets, and certainly with life. Our world and our galaxy are very average… and we have no idea what is out there, in all those other galaxies. (More or less every dot on that image is a galaxy, not just a star.)

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So, before going back to the mundane, turn down the lights and spend time with this image. The things people are so worked up about – hating and killing over – are less than trivial: dark specs in an eternal ocean. What’s inside of us, on the other hand, is an innate ability to willfully reverse entropy in this universe. Please spend some time trying to grasp this.