I am biologically programmed for development. Just as a flower grows from a seed, blooms, wilts and returns to the earth, I, too, have a life cycle. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, I will come and go, be born, bloom and die. I am organic. I eat from the earth-I am a part of it, dependent on it. This is why I will love the world, because this world into which I am born is my spiritual and physical home.

I come from and will return to this world.

In the laboratory we can see daily things that come into existence and disappear, that pop into existence out of nowhere and then fade away. These are subatomic particles so it is all on a pretty small scale, but
we can imagine that if we apply quantum physics to the universe as a whole, the entire thing, all the matter, energy and space could come into existence out of nowhere spontaneously as a gigantic quantum fluctuation. . . . Quantum physics’ contribution is that of a universe that is not predetermined but an evolutionary pattern that is governed by probabilities, which creates a true openness.
Paul Davies