Quote Originally Posted by Inferius
I want there to be more. I want to die physically and find out that our views aren't just a drop of intelligence in an ocean of what we have no clue about, nor ever could. I really, really, REALLY want to beleive that there is more than just a chemical reaction promoting every feeling and expirience I'll ever have. I think we all want this.
For a long time I suffered from a similar objective, mechanical outlook on life and the universe -- the crushing, overwhelming weight that comes with realizing that you're an insignificant speck of life at the unsympathetic whim of an inconceivably vast and complex universe, and the simultanious emptyness at feeling that your life is a meaningless mechanical/chemical process. It's a truly helpless and hopeless feeling, and at least speaking from personal experience that view has contributed to a lot of negative feelings and depression in my past.

My current outlook is more... I guess, more animistic, though perhaps not in the strictest definition of the word. I consider humans to be "expressions of the universe", as Alan Watts would say. That 'meaning' and 'significance' as one would use the terms in a spiritual sense have nothing to do with how big or small they are in the universe. That the chemical and electrical impulses which are necessary for having thoughts and emotions makes said thoughts and emotions no less significant, because they themselves are a part of a beautiful, sacred process. Just because these happenings -- the vastly intricate inner-workings of our bodies, to the outer complexities of the universe -- can't be fully translated into thought (that is, into symbols, words and numbers), makes them no more or less important than any other part of the natural universe, including ourselves, our thoughts or the complicated workings of our cells and nervous system. On it's most basic level, it's all one reciprocal happening.

All the energies of the cosmos, the forces that create and move the gallaxies and solar systems and stars and planets -- those same energies move us, too.