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

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

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.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

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

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.

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