"Making a personality, the task that Jung called 'individuation,' may be the adventure of a lifetime. But the person is anchored within a greater, universal identity. Salt remnants of ancient oceans flow through our veins, ashes of expired stars rekindle in our genetic chemistry.

The oldest of the atoms, hydrogen— whose primacy among the elements should have gained it a more poetically resonant name—is a cosmic theme; mysteriously elaborated billions-fold, it has created from Nothing the Everything that includes us."

~Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth, 1992, p. 319

Photo: NASA, "Pillars of Creation" from Hubble, 2015