Episode 1093 “Speck, Pixel, Dot”
Today’s meditation comes from The Book Of Psalms in The Old Testament and from the writings of Carl Sagan, with music by Sean Daugherty.
Passage: When I look up at the heavens, the moon and the stars that you set in place, what are human beings that you think about them and care for them? You’ve made them only a little lower than God, crowning them with glory and honor. —Psalm 8:3-5
Perspective: The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena… The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there... —Carl Sagan
Music: “Empty Space” by Sean Daugherty
Narrator: Ryan Phipps