““…I saw that she, that we, had been wrong my entire life. Self-preservation is not the primary instinct. It never was. […] People don’t seek survival. Even if they do, it’s more like an afterthought, like trying to remember to turn into the skid, which is important, but it’s not the primary instinct. The real primary instinct is transcendence. More than safety, more than happiness, we are driven to reach beyond ourselves, even if it means our own destruction.””
