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What does it mean?
Human connection is more complex than the physical universe.
In plain terms
A kiss is harder to measure than the world.
What can you take from it?
Cherish small human moments.

Where it applies

  • romance
  • grief
  • connection

Putting it to work

  • focus on intimacy

Questions to consider

  • What is more than than the world?

Another view

It dismisses the scale of the cosmos.

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