Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

You are, by size, almost nothing. Set against distance and duration you barely register, and no argument makes that untrue. But the mind that measures the scale is doing something the scale cannot do back. Being small and being able to hold the whole of it in thought are both true at once, and the second is not offered as a consolation for the first.

When you feel insignificant, try holding both facts instead of choosing between them. Give an hour this week to something that stretches your understanding rather than your importance.