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What Are You Doing With the Gift of Existence?
The universe takes a high degree of organizing power.
It’s really wild to imagine how this physical world came together through the mass organization of swirling particles that make up everything. Imagine how that has to work — every particle must know its place somehow. Everything, big and small is working together to hold this reality up. And on top of that, there’s a purpose.
Imagine that.
And you have a purpose.
Imagine the level of collective organization the universe requires to make all of this happen. It’s mind-blowing. Why don’t you see the miracle right in front of you?
It’s also very weird that there’s some great purpose that we’re all part of, and yet we are blind to what it is. Most of us are totally oblivious to its existence. We are living, walking, talking miracles. But we choose to look at reality as if it’s not that interesting.
People actually encourage each other to see life as a struggle. We’re trained to think there’s nothing beyond what the senses tell us and that nothing has meaning. When something unbelievable happens these days, people are so used to relying on a “scientific” explanation for it instead of seeing the unlikely and incredible properties of it.
It’s such irony. It’s absolutely hysterical. How can the actors be in a play without the awareness that they’re in it? How can we be so ignorant?
Particles and Waves
Quantum physics tells us that everything is made of particles and waves — indescribable things that can switch between those two states at any moment. Our whole existence is nothing like we think. We have to operate in a physical world in order to make all of this make-believe game possible, but at a fundamental level, we are nothing but particles and waves.
It’s strange to think that at the level we are normally conscious, reality is perceived as predictable and stable. There are laws of nature that tell us what we can expect. We rely on them a lot and forget that there’s magic in it all — because at a micro level, there’s a whole different story.
