The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all into its comprehensive fullness. Who can learn what this means and remain calm?

Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

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.

I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.