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 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.