The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. ') That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.

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 proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

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

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

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