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

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

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

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.

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.

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

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