To know that the universe is but as a tare-seed, and that the tip of a hair is a mountain,—this is the expression of relativity.

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If we say that a thing is great or small because it is relatively great or small, then there is nothing in all creation which is not great, nothing which is not small. To know that the universe is but as a tare-seed, and that the tip of a hair is a mountain,—this is the expression of relativity.

Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 17, §5 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Chuang Tzu, great and small depend on how we look: compared with something greater, heaven and earth are only a grain, and compared with something smaller, a mere hair becomes a mountain. Today, when a worry seems enormous to you, imagine it seen from the sky, tiny in the immensity, then breathe gently and take up your day again.

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