When I read this passage from "Equations of Eternity" by David
Darling, I experience a sense of awe (a feeling of profound
respect or wonder). Here it is:  In giving birth to us, the
universe has performed its most astonishing creative act. Out of
a hot, dense melee of subatomic particles--which is all that
once existed--it has fashioned intelligence and consciousness.
Some of those tiny, primordial pinpoints of matter from the
infant cosmos have become temporarily arranged to make your
brain and mine. Your thoughts at this very moment derive from
energy transactions between particles born at the dawn of time.
Somehow the anarchy of genesis has given way to exquisite,
intricate order, so that now there are portions of the universe
that can reflect upon themselves and ask: Why am I here? what is
the purpose of life, consciousness, and reality?  Views: 4
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