Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe. — 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
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
The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne. — Brian Swimme Copy Share
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
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
I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite. — Brian Swimme Copy Share
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
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
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
When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. — Brian Swimme Copy Share
If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans. — Brian Swimme Copy Share
Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being. — Brian Swimme Copy Share
Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence… — Brian Swimme Copy Share
