What they experienced looking at the “Blue Marble” that is our planet was the exact thing that Hierocles was trying to teach people about two thousand years ago. Yes, we naturally think of ourselves and the people we love first, but with work, we can expand that circle of concern larger and larger until we see everything that is alive as one enormous organism. Astronauts experience the exact same thing that Gandhi, who never even flew in a plane, never saw humanity from a vantage point higher than a small-story building, called the great oneness. Realizing this, letting it wash over us,
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