Do we see the world as big or small?

Question from the Internet:

“Is the world big or small for you?”

Looking at the world from our inherently egocentric, subjective, and individualistic viewpoint, where the world seems “outside” of us, the world seems incomprehensibly large and unfathomable.

Moreover, we feel the world as a hostile and dark place, where we are forced to ruthlessly fight and compete for survival and resources with everything and everybody.

As a result, we also try to succeed and survive at the expense of others and nature, believing that only the “fittest” — the strongest and most brutal — can survive in this unfathomable and hostile world, where our only security is defending and promoting ourselves while trying to control, manipulate and exploit others.

On the other hand, if we learned and practiced how to seamlessly integrate into the world by mutually and purposefully integrating with others into a mutually responsible and mutually complementing connection network, we would actually find that the world is “small,” that it is fully attainable and manageable. We would tangibly and realistically feel that we can “hold the world in our hands” and do whatever we want with it — as long as our intentions and aspirations are selflessly and unconditionally serving and loving everybody and everything else as if they were our own integral parts.

And, in effect, everything and everybody is our integral part since we are but individual cells of the same, fully integrated, and interdependent living organism that is nature’s system in which humanity is only a part.

And while we remain like “cancer cells” that think and care only about themselves while consuming everything and fighting and exploiting everything and everybody else, we perceive the world as we do right now.

But when we learn and practice how to become healthy cells in this single living organism, then we will attain how perfect and infinitely fulfilling the world really is. Everything depends only on how we relate to the world — by relating to other people first of all.