Today is not only a day to celebrate the love we have for those closest to us. It is also an anniversary of an event that changed my thinking about the world I live in.
February 14th is the anniversary of the first photograph of the earth taken from outer space. This was the beginning of a whole new cosmic reality and appreciation of our planet and where we are in a much greater reality than we thought!
Through the observations of Carl Sagan we started to see a new frontier beyond the earth. We saw that we are a part of something more – and that we are a part of a cosmos interwoven with divinity.
When I saw this little blue dot, my thinking shifted about how I saw myself and the world.
Oh boy! I am not the center and commander of the universe! I am in fact very insignificant.
What I thought mattered to me in my world … became redundant and irrelevant in the reality of the cosmos.
Who knew?… I certainly didn’t learn this from my parents.. or from my teacher Miss Douglas in high school!
So please take just a few moments to join with me to embrace and appreciate our pale blue drop… and commit to breathing life into it, preserving it, informing others, and coming together to meet the challenges that we all face to preserve it for the future.
We may appear to be insignificant, but I believe that each of us can make a difference in our own local sphere!
Namaste
Find Your Middle Ground 
Wow makes you appreciate the immense gift this tiny dot (our home) is! Thanks Val.
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It does indeed Karen! Thank you for stopping by 🙂
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How I love our ‘pale blue dot!’ I wish everyone in the world could see that three and a half minute video. Thanks for sharing it, Val.
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Thank you Eliza. I agree with you. If everyone shared this perspective it think it would be a different world.
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Love the blue dot! I’m quite insignificant yet connected to it all.
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I love this Suz!
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Sagan’s thoughts are such a great reminder about how trivial our Ego concerns really are in the grand scheme of things.
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Thanks for adding to the conversation Nancy!
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We are nothing…….and we are everything. Knowing our place on the pale blue dot reminds me that the Light of Oneness shines on us all. Happy Valentines Day, my friend.
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Beautiful words Tree 🙂 Thank you!
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Great reminder!
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Yes indeed Paul! Thank you.
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I love our little blue dot Val! ❤
Diana xo
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Me too Diana. ❤️
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I’m going to be honest, Val. These kind of images do two things to me. Firstly, they cause awe and wonder and give me an enormous sense of mystery, beauty and egolessness (if there’s such a word). On the other hand, and this is the second thing, the nihilist in me says, what the hell is it all about then. To talk about making a difference in such vastness and enormity sounds ludicrous. But the puniness in me says, there must be something behind it all, not because I want to selfishly preserve myself, but because it all somehow speaks of Presence both in its smallness and vastness.
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Thank you Don for sharing your thoughts here.
Yet, as we acknowledge our struggling thoughts, we see that it is just our thinking trying to make sense of something that is beyond us all.
I love “Presence both in its smallness and vastness”!
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What Don says. H ❤
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The inner struggle dissolves when we have faith in something that is no fully known.
(I think …. 😉
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I think the sad thing for me Val is that faith traditionally has always been linked to, or defined by certainty, no room for doubt and mystery.. In many religious circles, not all of them, faith can only be faith when its object is fully known and believed in. This kind of faith is simply belief in an idle. So I really go with you when you speak of faith in that which is not fully known. The word faith though has difficulties for me because of all the connotations attached to it.I think of it in other ways, but forgive me, I’m getting a little carried away here, so let me stop.
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Wonderful post Val! x I love our pale blue dot, how fun that the first photo of it from space was on Valentine’s Day, I never knew that. 🙂
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That warmed my environmentalist heart!
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So glad it warmed you Kate 🙂
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What a great post, Val! My own tiny world seem much more manageable now. And yes, we need to take care of Her.
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Thank you Tiny in our tiny world 🙂
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It’s a wonderful duality, we are both insignificant and significant, depend on the perspective. Yet, though we appear so small, we are actually a part of the whole, we are the universe 🙂
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Love these words Robert. Thank you ❤
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I love this video. I think realizing our smallness is what helps us to realize our actual grandness. Like Carl said, earth is the only home known to have life. Humans are not only life, but are thinking, reasoning and inventive sentient beings. That makes this small blue dot a rather large thing. And those who live on it and are aware of themselves, even bigger than the small blue dot. WOW! I love the complexity of existence. Thanks Val, for sharing.
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I appreciate your thinking Sheri! Thank you 🙂
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Reblogged this on DEAR HUMAN ~ LETTERS TO HUMANITY and commented:
Dear Human,
I think realizing the small of smallness helps one to realize your actual grandness. Like Carl Sagan said, earth is the only home known to support life. Humans are not only life, but are thinking, reasoning, inventive, and amazing sentient beings.
That makes this small blue dot a rather large thing. It also makes us humans who live on it even bigger than the small blue dot.
WOW!
I love the complexity of existence.
Love,
Sheri
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Wow! in this tiny dot we a vast millions with different hues and shades get connected.Thanks Val, love and happiness to you, have a wonderful day.
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Thank you so much Rekha! Good to see you here 🙂
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Reblogged this on Window With A View and commented:
It took my breath away and I am speechless.
with thanks and Hugs to Val
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Thank you for re-blog and kind words Rekha! Share the awesomeness 🙂
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