This photo of a spiral galaxy is amazing. How small, in time and in space, our lives seem when we really look at such an image! Human being seem compelled (or condemned!?) to ask, again and again: Do we (our lives, our struggles) mean anything, at all?
Here is one version of a viewpoint offered by Wm James: "If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will... But it feels like a real fight--as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears. For such a half-wild, half-saved universe our nature is adapted."
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