Finding meaning in the vastness of the universe, by Michelle Thaller
Meditative Story
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The Importance of Sitting Deeply
For as long as I can remember there's one place I don't feel lonely. Under a clear star filled sky. My mother told me she used to find me barely able to walk trying to go outside and look at the stars. They've always felt like old friends. And they make me feel safe. Even now when I've spent decades learning the physics of the hot gases and their interiors, I still go outside just to look at them with my own eyes. This is an incredible thing to know, and it remains my favorite single fact. At the beginning of the universe, only the very simplest atoms existed. Nowhere in the entirety of space was there a single bit of the
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