Cosmos - Carl Sagan -complete Edition- Now

He ends not in the void, but on a bridge. The bridge between what is and what could be. He reminds us that the stars are dead. The light we see left them millions of years ago. But we are alive. For a brief, shimmering moment, we can look up and decode their ancient messages.

Look at the Pale Blue Dot . The photograph taken by Voyager 1 from 4 billion miles away. Earth is a pixel of scattered light, a half-mote in a lens flare. On that pixel, every general screamed, every lover kissed, every child cried for the moon. Every tyrant, every saint, every inventor, every explorer. “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives… every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization… lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Cosmos - Carl Sagan -Complete Edition-

Do not ask for a sign from above. You are the sign. Do not beg for a purpose. You are the purpose. The cosmos spent 13.8 billion years to make you. Don’t waste the investment. He ends not in the void, but on a bridge

Sagan’s thesis is urgent: But our understanding of it is a flickering candle in a hurricane of time. We are the custodians of a brief, brilliant light. The light we see left them millions of years ago

His answer is radical in its simplicity. The only meaning is the meaning we make. The only heaven is the one we build here, with justice, with science, with mercy.

Now, go. Touch the sky. It is your birthright.