Picture the sun. Imagine looking at it, facing the searing heat and blinding brightness. The sun rotates once every twenty-seven days. The sun is 92% hydrogen. The sun is the closest star to earth. And yet, distance is so very relative. The sun is 92,960,000 miles a¬way from us. That's far. So far, that our feeble, limited, human mind just refuses to comprehend it. 92,960,000 miles. That's 8 digits. I could walk all my life, run, even, without stopping, eating, drinking, anything, relentless in my pursuit, and yet, even by the time I am 80, I wouldn't e¬ven be 1/1000th of the way there. Will I never see it face to face? The sun, our ever present guide in the sky, our provider, and sustenance of life, is infinitely out of reach.
Our sun shines. It shines so brightly, day in, and day out, each second, each moment, each breath, and even when we're not looking. From earth, we see nothing besides the ever-present luminescence. How does it keep itself ablaze? The answer is simple, and beautiful. She is alive. Deep in her heart, it stirs. Constant unrest. Constant unease. Volatile. Within its heart, atoms whirr about in a frenzy. Hydrogen collides with hydrogen. Another heavier element, maybe. Then something magical happens. Nuclear fusion. Energy is emitted. Light forms.
The sun is evolving. It's growing, and has been, ever since birth. It passes through space, never the same. Slowly, its composition changes. Less hydrogen, day by day, week by week. The fuel, it burns. It's running dry. She needs to refuel. Our sun is growing cold. Her heart grows heavy, and just gets heavier and heavier, and heavier, until it becomes unbearable. It's overwhelmed, burning out, and tired. The sudden realization. Immortal, she is not. Our sun is not inv...
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...id not tell you the whole story, about our sun. The climax of our plot was left out of the account. Yes, our sun will die. Be that as it may, our sun does not die a coward's death. As her heart hardens into stone, she anticipates her demise. Before her time is up, she will perform her greatest piece. She will expand. Engulfing the inner planets, she devours them one by one, for no one will stand in her way. Her dream will be fulfilled. She puffs up, proud, as she swells in size, becoming 200 times the size she is today. She starts to pulse, she's no longer stable, and her moment draws near. Just before it is over, her last act of providence. She hurls herself outwards, as her heart and soul spews into an immense fluorescent nebulae, that will one day be the components of new stars, new beginnings. And so, although she may never know it, one day, she will live again.
The very symbol of life – the elemental force of the Sun – is rendered
Not only is human connection vital to live a happy and joyful life, but it is necessary to create a legacy, and thus live on through others. But in order to do this, one must first overcome their ego and their sense of self. Once all of the “I” thoughts are gone, one can relate, but fully understand, the higher powers as well as other human beings around us. However, it is important to accept that we may never fully understand the driving force of this universe. While it can be experienced, and we can briefly get an idea of what it is, it is impossible to define these concepts in words, because we don’t have a language that transcends what we can understand. And though many recognize that these concepts could never be fully understood by the human brain, determined minds continue to ask questions that will never have an answer, “pushing their minds to the limits of what we can know” (Armstrong,
sun won't run its course for many days before you have to repay a corpse
Momaday tells us a story of how the sun came to be. He writes about how a child becomes a woman and she becomes the wife of a man that has now become the sun.
In Summer Solstice what may seem like a horrid story of death at first glance, may in fact, be a story of life. With some critical thinking one can see what the words themselves don’t seem to suggest. The words used to tell the story seem to suggest that it is simply a story of a suicidal man attempting to bring his own death, but take some time to think about the story, to study it just as your would study astronomical objects; with precision, detail, and creativity, and you can see a story of beginnings of a man being brought to life instead of death. Just as the size of the neutron star may not seem to suggest that it is so massive (in terms of actual matter and density). With a
This is an interpretation I simply cannot accept, for I have always regarded the sun as symbolic of the superego - the force of society within Meursault.
It seems that Ernest Hemmingway was right in his book The Old Man and the Sea; if we could reach the stars we would kill them too. It is a blessing miracle that they
of the “sun” (5) grants us to see time in its shape, it cannot aid in its passing and they can
The sun became the king of the universe and he was very bright so he could be seen from far and wide. The stars feared him and so again began to behave in an appropriate fashion. He also was very hot and warmed the once cold universe so that life would be possible.
Our Sun continuously converts hydrogen into helium and with this process it provides the essentials for life processes. In doing this it controls “our climate, provides light, raises tides, and drives the food chain” (Schaefer 34). Our Sun also has influenced many beliefs now and in the past. History has documented Sun worshipping religions while many current societies use solar calendars (Schaefer 34).
“Mr. Sun, Sun. Mr. Golden Sun please shine down on me” (Barney). Both these sets of Vampires can agree that the Sun is not their best ally. In Twilight people can see how Edward is never present when Forks has a sunny day. This is what made Bella more curious to finding out what was happening to Edward. Together they go off to into the meadow, and Edward shows Bella why he is not able to be out in the sun. Bella witnesses Edward’s skin turn from human flesh into sparkling diamonds. Furthermore the Vampire diaries has a different approach to the Sun. Surprisingly Stefan and Damon’s skin does not sparkle but instead it burns. If any vampire were left in the Sun for a long period of time, they would have died and turned into ash.
Immortality, redemption, emancipation and deliverance have always been the highest spiritual aims of mankind as well as his innermost aspirations. Throughout the ages his spirit has relentlessly soared towards these eternal peaks that lie beyond the comprehension of ordinary human understanding. He has always tried to decipher the larger meaning and purpose of human existence and of its link with the entire creation. Man’s quest has been to identify the powers governing life and how his life fits into the greater scheme of things whereby this universe exists. Where science and rationality failed to find any Cosmic significance in human existence, the spiritual approach not only found a meaning but also connected it
Have you ever been in love? Have you ever felt a love so strong that nothing else seemed to matter? I hope that you have, but if you haven't, John Donne's poem, "The Sun Rising", gives a revealing glimpse into the emotional roller coaster that is true love. In the poem, Donne uses what is called a "metaphysical conceit" to emphasize the strength of the devotion between him and his lover. A metaphysical conceit is a metaphor extended to extreme, almost absurd lengths, so it makes sense for it to be used to describe intense feelings such as the devotion of two lovers. This definitely applies here, for in the mind of the narrator, he and his lover are the entire world, and the mighty sun, a mere servant to their desires.
One of the symbols for our material immortality is the notion that we shall live more lives by means of successive incarnations here in this plane.