I think there's only danger in taking the cosmic scale of the universe seriously if you also take your selfhood seriously. “My life amounts to no more than one

I think there's only danger in taking the cosmic scale of the universe seriously if you also take your selfhood seriously. “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Minuteness is a problem when you feel like an outsider 'brought into' the world to 'confront' it, but is less problematic if you feel like part of a greater whole.