RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
December 4, 2016 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2016 at 12:08 am by bennyboy.)
(December 3, 2016 at 11:48 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I get it, Benny -- when I look up at the nighttime sky and really consider that the starlight hitting my retinae has been traveling millions of years at c, my worries seem as insignificant as I am to that vastness.
I'm glad you get how I feel.
To probably take it a step too far, I'd almost say that a kind of Tibetan not-self, but with a more material perspective, is probably as close as most people these days need to get to religion. The objective truth is that I really don't matter to much to the grand scheme of things-- but that's not depressing, it's totally liberating. It means I can do whatever I want, however I want, think whatever I want, and in the end. . . I don't have to carry much weight on my shoulders.