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'Love and gratitude' are the words that must serve as the guide for the world.

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The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.

Death, Humility, Invokes, Think, Thinking, Understanding
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Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.

Down, History, Home, Night, Prayer, Think

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

Assent, Awe, Larger, Respect, Reverence, Self

The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.

Emergence, Joy, Miracle, Religious, Tales, Yearning

The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.

Creature, Levels, Played, Real, Required, Space

I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.

Emergence, Grace, Miracle, Self, Witness
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