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. — 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
