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From this distant vantage point,

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our Sun doesn't seem of any particular interest.

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So,

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let us embark again..

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on a voyage.

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That’s here.

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That’s home.

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That’s us.

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On it lives – everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of;

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every single creature who ever was:
lived out their lives just right here.

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The aggregate of our joy and suffering,

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several great religions,

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thousands of ideologies & economic doctrines,

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big-small nations,

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every hunter and nomad,

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every good and bad person,

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every creator and destroyer of civilization,

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every king and poor,

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every loved one,

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every hater,

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every motherxfather, grand parents, innocent child,

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every creator & explorer,

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every teacher of good morals,

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every corrupt politician,

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every superstar,

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every saint and sinner..

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Each..

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Each of those in the history of our species lived here –

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: on a mote of dust suspended in an unending universe..

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on which people and their pride, problems & power are almost nothing in actuality.

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The Earth is a very small stage
in a vast cosmic arena.

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And still, just think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and
emperors –just like us–

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– so that in glory and triumph,
they could become the momentary masters
of a fraction of a dot .

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..& could prove that they were better than everybody else.

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Recall whenever we, instead of the good, opted to choose the path of the bad.

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Remember each time when a living human being him-/her-self strangled the humanity
residing within.

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Relive those gigantic walls that we all erect thereof..

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religion, caste, sex, language, country, and colour;

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thereby do hatred & bitterness with one another.

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Think of the endless cruelties ravaged by the inhabitants of one corner of this
pixel..

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on the scarcely distinguishable, identical inhabitants of some other corner.

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How frequent all their poor misunderstandings,

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how eager they are to kill one another,

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how fervent all their hatreds.

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However; our ahankaar,

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our imagined self-importance & ego,

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the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe:

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..are all challenged by this point of pale light .

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Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

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In all this vastness, we ourselves are encircled within darkness.

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In our obscurity, there exists no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save
us from ourselves.

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Thus,

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it is us who are to be the change,

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and begin walking on beyond the path of the good.

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As yet,

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the Earth is the only world known to harbour life.

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There is nowhere else, at least in the near future,
to which our species can migrate.

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Visit? Yes.
Settle? Not yet.

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Hence, like it or not,

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but..

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the Earth is where we all make our only stand.

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Asserted truely that Vāsudhāîvā Kuṭumbakaṃ;

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i.e.

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"The World Is One Family."

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It has been said that astronomy is a(n) humbling, character-building, intelligent
experience..

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and the most important of all: makes one a good person.

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There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this
distant image of our tiny world.

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As if it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and
love all & sundry..

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and to preserve and cherish this pale blue dot .

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: the only home we’ve ever had.

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🌍 ♥️