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.

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.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life.

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.

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