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Is it possible that seeing the Earth from space can lead to a Soul Reunion? Today we look at how men’s hearts and minds have been changed through glimpsing the Earth from a distance. 

Show Notes

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“In spite of the overwhelming beauty of this scene, serious inequity exists on the apparent paradise we have been given. I couldn't help thinking of the nearly one billion people who don't have clean water to drink, the countless number who go to bed hungry every night, the social injustice, conflicts, and poverty that remain pervasive across the planet.

Seeing Earth from this vantage point gave me a unique perspective —” 

-Ron Garan

 “Part of this is the realization that we are all traveling together on the planet and that if we all looked at the world from that perspective, we would see that nothing is impossible.”

- Ron Garan

“The thing that really surprised me was that [Earth] projected an air of fragility. And why, I don't know. I don't know to this day. I had a feeling it's tiny, it's shiny, it's beautiful, it's home, and it's fragile.”                         -Michael Collins

“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is,” Gagarin wrote on an autograph card after his flight. “Let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it.”  - Yuri Gagarin

“I’m so filled with emotion about what just happened. It’s extraordinary, extraordinary. It’s so much larger than me and life. It hasn’t got anything to do with the little green men and the blue orb. It has to do with the enormity and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death…”  -William Shatner

“To see the blue color whip by you, and now you’re staring into blackness … everybody in the world needs to do this. Everybody in the world needs to see this.” -William Shatner

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