Neverness

Neverness (1988)

by David Zindell

• To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?

• You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.

• Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

• What's beautiful is that a creator can be astonished by his own creations.

• For us humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down.
  • Emil Sinclair

• I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.
  • from the meditations of Jin Zenimura

• If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
  • Lyall Watson

• Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
  • Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool)

• Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out? (p88)

• The universe is a womb for the genesis of gods.

• 'All living things are afraid to die. 'No, you're exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die.'