"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you" B.B King

I was reading this amazing book of Brian Swimme "The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos" and no matter how many times I read it I always come back to it. Human existence to its highest level of understanding, or perhaps to some; not so much. It became harder to believe that in these times of modernity and industrialize movements, humans would not take the time to realize that we are simply part of the whole universe. It seems that "life" passes artlessly in front of our eyes; however there is hardly a single day that we can stop and became aware of the breathtaking world that we live in - and most of it - in the  amazing Universe we are floating suspended by earth's gravity. 

In a physical sense -explained Swimme- we live in industrial artifacts designed to keep us inside and the universe outside. It is for this reason that the primary concerns of our hearts and minds are overwhelmingly focused on the requirements imposed upon us by life -day by day. In his chapter "Looking Down on the Milky Way" he explained how in an ultimate sense we - as humans - know just so little about the dark past and so little about the future that is to come. But we do know that, as we wonder over the great milky path surrounding us in the night, we are entering into an experience that billions of humans back through time shared. 

If there is something that unites us as humans with time, is that we also wonder about our macrocosm, as our ancestors did. In the middle of the night, they also question themselves about a reality that goes beyond our understanding. Although the sky that we are watching now it has been projected so many light years behind, is still the same environment that once was also questioned. The difference perhaps; it is that nowadays we are blind by our robotic programmed money maker lives. We might not have the answers to all our wonders, but one thing is for sure- that life goes very fast and rapidly involves you in the circle of automat responses. So, for the time that we have left, we should explore the world we live in substantially and appreciate the universe in which we have been created in a stunning similarity. Avoid the suction of the tornado of materialism and start appreciating more our real home, our Universe.