Very Sad Mistake

Inspiration for the Day

"Tomorrow morning the sun will rise over the ancient hills just like it did the day before and for ten million yesterdays. The tides will rise and fall just like they have been rising and falling for countless ages. The rocky cliffs will reflect the rays of the rising sun, as usual. Water will go roaring down canyons centuries old, or flow serenely in the level stretches to the sea. Some instinct will bring the birds back north with the coming spring. On all this the stars and moon look down from the serenity of the firmament.

And while this is going on, over and over again, only mankind is tense. Only man becomes so wrapped up in his petty little problems of economics and politics, of intrigue and profit and power, of greed and exploitation, that he fails to heed the great lesson going on around him. He is so near his problems and brings his problems so near to him that he finally comes to believe that he and he alone, is the center of the universe. And that is a very sad mistake to make."

anon.