A Message of Inspiration:
“Took my walk at 4pm today in eighty-nine degrees of frost...I paused
to listen to the silence...The day was dying, the night was being
born—but with great peace. Here were imponderable processes and
forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony; that was
it!
It was enough to catch that rhythm, momentarily to be myself a part of
it. In that instant I could feel no doubt of man’s oneness with
the universe. The conviction came that the rhythm was too
orderly, too harmonious, too perfect, to be a product of blind
chance—that, therefore, there must be purpose in the whole and that man
was part of the whole and not an accidental off-shoot. It was a feeling
that transcended reason; that went to the heart of man's despair and
found it groundless.”
(The above was written by Admiral
Byrd, describing his experience in the Antarctic.)