The speed of light has put a severe limit on what we can "know" about life in the other 1+ trillion (?) galaxies, or even in the other hundreds of billions (?) of stars in our own Milky Way.
And it was all apparently very difficult, from our point of view, but that aspect of creation -- and more specifically, its Creator -- are beyond the ken of creatures such as ourselves, even with our vastly superior talents and abilities. Very few of us reach the pinnacle of our ability to commune with the vast information system that is the universe around us.
"It is so wonderful, now that I am in in a constant conversation with You." --Rumi (my paraphrase from memory)
And it was all apparently very difficult, from our point of view, but that aspect of creation -- and more specifically, its Creator -- are beyond the ken of creatures such as ourselves, even with our vastly superior talents and abilities. Very few of us reach the pinnacle of our ability to commune with the vast information system that is the universe around us.
"It is so wonderful, now that I am in in a constant conversation with You." --Rumi (my paraphrase from memory)
"The Way goes in." --Rumi