Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

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.

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

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.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

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.

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