There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Now the question is, what is the pent up demand? Obviously, that's a difficult thing to gauge but I believe it is fairly significant from all the carrier checks I've done and RIM is clearly the still the market leader by a long shot and has the best products on the market.

At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.

it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life…

the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.