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No, I Do Not Wish to Know You - The Guest House

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Last weekend, I read Carl Sagan’s words from his book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, on Pinterest and cried a little bit inside. He says, “Look again at that dot. 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. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Thanks for reading The Guest House! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Pledge your support You see

Last weekend, I read Carl Sagan’s words from his book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, on Pinterest and cried a little bit inside. Pale Blue Dot, 1990 He says, “Look again at that dot. 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. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and…

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