It’s not exactly a quote, but maybe you can compress it. Whenever the day gets too long or scary, I get into a line of thinking where I try to be amazed at how much of everything (stuff, people, clouds, atoms) there is in the universe. Then I wonder how all this stuff has come to be here and, since I’m an atheist, I hit a brick wall: you can go back to a Big Bang or whatever, but ultimately there is no explanation. By that time my own miseries are so tiny by comparison: it just doesn’t matter whether I exist or how I feel.
That would sound like a bad thing, but somehow it’s not. Especially when I’m stuck in negative thoughts, it stops those, and any misery loses most of its weight.
So maybe your quote could be:
Where did all these atoms come from?
It’s not exactly a quote, but maybe you can compress it. Whenever the day gets too long or scary, I get into a line of thinking where I try to be amazed at how much of everything (stuff, people, clouds, atoms) there is in the universe. Then I wonder how all this stuff has come to be here and, since I’m an atheist, I hit a brick wall: you can go back to a Big Bang or whatever, but ultimately there is no explanation. By that time my own miseries are so tiny by comparison: it just doesn’t matter whether I exist or how I feel.
That would sound like a bad thing, but somehow it’s not. Especially when I’m stuck in negative thoughts, it stops those, and any misery loses most of its weight.
So maybe your quote could be:
Where did all these atoms come from?
I love it. Maybe I could draw a little ant under the line and think of the wonder of the smallest things.
Thank you!