"The question that I am facing in recent years is this: To what extent are human beings part of this ceaseless chain of destruction? Do we absorb it? Does it impinge on us; is the chemical biological entity that is the human being, suffused and penetrated by that which is so overwhelmingly the stuff of life? Is the destructivity so deeply embedded in us, in all of us - inescapably there, because it is in the entire cosmos? We absorb in the course of the development of life, of which we are part, the bombardment that is present in the earth and galaxies. Cataclysmic forces which is what galaxies are, are present as life evolves, and evolving life inevitably absorbs such elements like milk from the mother's breast. Why should it not be so? Confirmation of a sort comes from the vast accumulation of folklore and myth on creation and destruction that has been handed down. If destruction and creation is so profoundly embedded in the human being, in the atoms and cells - and the origins go back to the first beginnings of biological life - if there is a total mix between that which is on earth and in the galaxies, how should we respond to such an awareness?"