The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

Your god is too small for my universe.

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.