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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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