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We have hinted here that the value 1,000 is rather relative.
Xerxys, you say it isn't a big number. Well, whether it's big or small depends on the subject. One thousand pennies, as we've mentioned, is $10. A small sum, indeed. However, the power of 1,000 suns? Nothing short of sublime.
I'll never count to 1,000 in my lifetime. That's why computing machines were invented. It's also why we use addition and multiplication.
Come on, people....
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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