This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole

We no longer should think of the Universe only as a physical system. We must think of the Universe as home to life.

The “small shift” that we need is to see ourselves as part of the world rather than separate from it.