Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.