“I simply believe
That there’s a very organic, immeasurable consciousness
Of which we’re apart.
I believe that this consciousness is a force so powerful.
That I’m incapable of comprehending its power
Through the puny instrument of my human mind.
And yet I believe that this consciousness.
is so unimaginably calibrated in its sensitivity
That not one leaf falls in the deepest of forests
On the darkest of nights unnoticed.
Now given the immensity of this immeasurable power that I’m talking about,
and given its pervasiveness through the universe (Extending from distant galaxies to the tip of my nose.)
I choose not to engage in what I consider to be the useless effort to give it a name,
and by naming it, suggesting that I in any way understand it… I just give it respect and think of it as living in me as well as everywhere else.”
Sidney Poitier The Measure of a Man.
The Layered Lens 