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if you took the entire population of the Earth, all seven billion of us, and removed all the empty space from all of our combined atoms, the entire human race would fit into a single sugar cube.
Alan Watts, the mid-20th-century British contemporary philosopher, perhaps said it best when he stated, “You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”
We are slaves to our perceptions
Nikola Tesla, gave us a clue when he said, “If you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
It was the 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer who said that all truth passes through three distinct stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
if we give complete power to anything outside ourselves to make us happy, then we are at the complete mercy of circumstances to decide if we’re happy or in endless suffering.