As the scholastics used to say: ‘Homo non proprie humanus sed superhumanus est’: which means that to be properly human you must go beyond the merely human.*
Eugene Peterson

What appears our doomed fate, in reality is a choice … Urgency and convenience are dictators of decisions large and small … In our era we are frequently distracted from our future selves and the future of our society by what we need to accomplish now.**
Bina Venkataraman

We want this to be pain-free,
We want to be special,
We don’t want others to get in the way,
We want to be in charge and others to follow,
We don’t want to think about the endgame;
We rush ahead with so little and
leave so much behind.

*Eugene Peterson’s Run With the Horses;
**Bina Venkataraman’s The Optimist’s Telescope.