If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera! — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
