My favorite museum is the Museum of Natural History in New York City and my favorite exhibition there is the Scales of the Universe exhibition in the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Along a 400 ft walk-way you come to realize how very, very big the Universe outside the self is and then, if you reverse course, you discover how very,very big the universe inside the self is.
It was after that exhibit that I truly realized that one should do what makes one happy and that living by society's rules is not the be-all and end-all of life. How hard do we not work to do what is expected of us... to do what we expect of ourselves? But we are star-dust spinning in space for not even a billionth of a billi-second (there has to be such thing as a billi-second right?) We could tell ourselves that we do not matter because we are so small but when we look inside ourselves on the atomic level we are each a universe unto ourselves. We are both infinitely small and infinitely large--- in body and in mind. What strange creatures who can not understand infinity, but who can understand that there is such a thing as infinity.
Here's a video that illustrates the vastness of the universe (how lovely that the universe (one verse, united verse?) is called the universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg&feature=player_embedded
Here is the wikipedia link for the word Universe I never knew that the literal sense of verse is to roll into one.
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