We are not just a bunch of atoms; we are generals of an army or, if you prefer, leaders of an organization whose membership is a billion billion times greater than the entire human race. We lift our finger and a billion cells cooperate with total obedience and precision. When we digest our dinner, billions of complex molecules are rushing about, performing complex chemical tasks.
We have worked long and hard to reach this state, and we have done so by our own efforts. And now the question: what has sustained us in this climb? There can be only one answer. It is sustained by the basic and most fundamental of all the powers, the premonition of a goal implicit in the photon that started it all off. This premonition sustains the quest. It is the thrust, the passion that makes life continually try to excel itself to evolve and, in almost all mankind, has led man to postulate a state of being beyond himself.
Physical substance and/or energy was itself the product of action, that ultimate totality whose division produces substance and uses it as a vehicle. So the source of the faith in what is beyond oneself is a timeless overview, the same dynamic orientation that has pushed the physical vehicle through its development and that has guided our steps up the ladder of being since the universe first came into existence.