Self-knowledge is the essence of all knowledge. Your character corresponds to your organization. Hans Christian Von Baeyer has written in this month's Physika section of The Sciences about Wilhelm Barthlott's discovery of how it is the lotus, growing out from muddy waters, is always clean. The white lotus, born in the water and grown in the water, rises beyond the water. Elsewhere in the same article Von Baeyer quotes Feynman, Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars mere globs of gas atoms.
Nothing is mere .
I too can see the stars on the desert night, and feel them. The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one million year old light. It does not seem to hurt the mystery to know a little more about it. Buy the mag. Read the article.