Beauty

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." - Albert Einstein

There is beauty in art, nature, science and emotion. We are capable of so much. The human species is very creative. Leonardo Da Vinci once said: “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” If we could all see and connect in this vision, this beauty.... If all of us could get a glimpse of the wonder of this Universe and embrace how really amazing all of this is...what would life be like? A better world finally evolved from awareness and not personal ego or ideology but of humanity? With the challenges of pollution, global environmental change and an ever growing population time is of the essence! The only limits we set in this life are the ones we create for ourselves. We can do this.

I'm not the only one who believes we can do this:

“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together — surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing.”

― Carl Sagan