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

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

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

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

That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.