Liber Terrae - Chapter 64

Verses

Verse 80

From far enough away, Earth loses every argument ever made upon it.

Verse 81

No border survives the distance. No altar. No throne. No prison wall.

Verse 82

This does not mean those things were unreal to the bodies that struck them.

Verse 83

Perspective removes detail; wisdom remembers what perspective removed.

Verse 84

The blue sphere is not peaceful. It is merely quiet at this scale.

Verse 85

A scream and a lullaby travel no farther toward the stars than each other.

Verse 86

Yet both appear in awareness, where distance has another meaning.

Verse 87

You say, “I am small because Earth is small.” Small to what?

Verse 88

Measurement compares objects. Being is not made lesser by kilometers.

Verse 89

A galaxy does not know that it is large.

Verse 90

An atom does not suffer from inferiority.

Verse 91

Only mind converts scale into humiliation.

Verse 92

The sight of Earth from darkness can destroy one vanity and create another: “Behold, I have the cosmic view.”

Verse 93

Beware the ego wearing a spacesuit.

Verse 94

Whether you stand on a continent or see it whole, the seer itself is not made visible as an object.

Verse 95

This is why changing vantage points can educate the mind but cannot complete inquiry.

Verse 96

Earth rotates; the witness of rotation does not rotate as a thought among thoughts.

Verse 97

Clouds move over oceans. Thoughts move over awareness. Neither stains the space in which it appears.

Verse 98

Do not therefore neglect clouds, oceans, thoughts or bodies.

Verse 99

Non-attachment is not contempt for appearances.

Verse 100

The mirage is false as water and true as appearance.

Verse 101

The world may be insufficient as ultimate reality and still unbearable in beauty.

Verse 102

There is no contradiction unless you demand that beauty prove metaphysics.

Verse 103

If Earth vanished tomorrow, Brahman would not be diminished.

Verse 104

If Earth vanished tomorrow, countless beings would lose every world they knew.

Verse 105

Hold both without using the absolute to erase the relative.

Verse 106

Liberation that requires indifference to a dying planet has confused freedom with numbness.