This Human Moment: Finding meaning in the vastness of the universe, by Michelle Thaller
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The Unaltered Night Sky
The story of the universe doesn't care if you think you're worthy or not. If you wish to embrace this truth or reject it, there is no possible way for the universe to judge you. Birth and death bonded together, cheeked jowl, so tightly that one leaks into the other across a galaxy. I wouldn't be here tonight, had many millions of stars not died before. Some atoms in my body were formed literally a hundred thousand trillion miles away from where I sit tonight. And I'm soaked to the core of my existence in death, unimaginably vast death. That is what I am. That iswhat you are.
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