1. Fundamentals

Beauty and vision

The world has beauty without end. This is my starting place, and in fact it is everything I want to say, because, if one understands this, one will have the door open to both science and mysticism. However, it seems almost impossible to convey the beauty of the world, for many reasons.

The main reason is that we actually don't see the world in its actual vastness, complexity or beauty. We are limited by our senses, our intelligence, and the need to focus our attention. Therefore we only see an unimaginable tiny little bit of it, usually we are concerned with events that happen on the surface of this small speck of rock called Earth and that directly relate to our daily lives. It is this shortness of eyesight that leads us to think that the world is awful, we see big tragedies without realizing that life is the miracle. Had our eyes been opened to Jupiter and Mars we would be glad that we had such an amenable atmosphere, to be alive at all, and we would cherish and protect the rare and delicate planet on which we are encroached.