Brian Swimme Quotes

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

The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface –within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily ‘within consciousness. ‘) That’s the only difference. We didn’t create compassion, but it’s flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we’re in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.

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

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

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

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

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.

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

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.

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

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 universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.