To stare up to the stars with the eyes alone tells one nothing, but to perceive the response deep within one's being is another thing altogether.
Far below the surface of Personal Consciousness, and even beyond the Individual Unconscious is something in everyone that is akin to what is permeating the vast space overhead.
On looking within it is perceived as deep and wide and as full of mystery.
For perhaps a brief minute man perceives the distance between, the nearest stars and the stellar cloudbanks of our own galaxy.
Maybe he even begins to see the pale disk of our neighboring nebula Andromeda, the idea of another cosmic order and beyond this, and the unimaginable fact that there are as many galaxies as there are stars in sight.
This realization is awe-inspiring.
We fly today, shuttle rockets to the planets, can carry on long-distance conversations and see far beyond our Milky Way to other galaxies, assuming that we all know more than men did before our time—but in fact this is only information about things, not direct knowledge of them.
One may view the thousand-fold magnified image of molecules on an electron microscope, but know nothing beyond the borrowed information of learning.
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