Dec 7, 2008
The Painter's Edge
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus
Everybody who has ever lived on this planet has, at one point or another, looked up into a clear, star-lit sky and wondered, "Why are we here? Who or what created everything?" No one will ever know these answers with absolute certainty and this to me is what makes this life so beautifully complex and interesting. Looking at the pictures of deep space from the Hubble Ultra Deep Telescope probing the outermost edge of the observable universe, one is awe-struck, speechless...humbled. Out of this infinite space where indubitably other beings exist (& where modern scientific theories become inadequate descriptive/predictive tools), one comes to the realization that we are definitely not what we appear to be or who we think we are.
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
-Wallace Stevens
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