• Question: is the universe alive?

    Asked by nicenadia to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 11 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Phillip Wilkinson

      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

      We are the universe experience itself. So the universe is alive through us.

    • Photo: Marina De Vos

      Marina De Vos answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      I like Philip’s ending sentence: “We are the universe experience itself. So the universe is alive through us.” To me, the “we” does not stand for humans but all living creatures.

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