The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within….

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

Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursu….

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.

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 ….

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

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

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address tree….

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent histo….

The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples….

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!.

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 m….

The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all i….

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!.

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

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

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

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas..

I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite..

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

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