Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.
'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge of the universe, but we're going to land right on you: in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. My goal is to have people know that they are participants in this great unfolding cosmic story.
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.
We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.
Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.