"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world but in being able to remake ourselves"
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
Don Miguel Ruiz (via rainydaysandblankets)
(Source: v1llain)
I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant. I heard the universe as an oratorio sung by a master choir of stars, accompanied by the orchestra of the planets and the percussion of satellites and moons. The aria they performed was a song to break the heart, full of tragic dissonance and deferred hope, and yet somewhere beneath it all was a piercing refrain of glory, glory, glory. and I sensed that not only the grand movements of the cosmos, but everything that had happened in my life, was a part of that song. I realized that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.
Ultraviolet, R.J. Anderson (via woocie)
