Eckhart Tolle argues that while astronomy shows Earth as a speck among galaxies, each person is a vital spark of universal consciousness. Without individual consciousness, the universe couldn't exist or be perceived. Your perception is a creative act that makes you infinitely important.
You are of infinite importance. You are an expression of the one universal consciousness. There was a time in the 19th century when humans were beginning to realize how small we are in relation to the universe, that we are only a— there's a tiny speck which is our planet, and then there are not just billions of other suns, but there are billions of other galaxies, and every galaxy is a huge world. And then the human said, we are so insignificant. Our life, life means absolutely nothing. We are so insignificant. What they fail to realize is that yes, on a physical level, we are very small, but every human represents a spark of the one universal consciousness without which there wouldn't even be a universe. There wouldn't even be a room if we were not here to perceive it. So it's a creative— the perception of the universe is a creative act, and it's the one consciousness acting through you and then experiencing itself as a world. Amazing thing. So you are, as consciousness,
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