“Our story is the story of the universe. Every piece of everyone, of everything you love and everything you hate, of the thing you hold most precious, was assembled by the forces of nature in the first few minutes of the life of the universe, transformed in the hearts of the stars or created in their fiery deaths.
And when you die, those pieces will be returned to the universe in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. What a wonderful thing it is to be part of that universe. And what a story, what a majestic story.”
Professor Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe.
This is what I believe in. Have ever since I learned that energy never goes to waste, just reinvents itself in a new form. Before I learned of physics I still believed this, just in the form of reincarnation.
I like knowing all I am is a small part of something big, something that will outlast me, possibly by eternity. It’s a warm and nice and calming thought.
(via foxy-grandma)
