Man's brotherhood with the universe...

"The second he begins to fall away from this concept of his brotherhood with all of life, with his affinity and the desirability of the physical universe, a man starts to get sick. One individual man — he starts to get sick in the head.

"His efficiency goes down.

"When he's young, he dreams dreams — big, vast dreams about what he's going to do in the world. They say the world is the young man's oyster. If you don't like oysters, it's at least his clam. But he's there very bound and determined that he is going to do something about it.

"And then what happens?

"Somehow or other, his drive, urge in this direction, becomes blunted. But is that all that happens to him?

"A man ceases to postulate desirable futures, in other words, ceases to dream in direct ratio that the physical universe has proven itself antipathetic toward him and that other life-forms have proven themselves antipathetic toward him.

"In other words, he ceases to dream and postulate large, vast, desirable survival goals just in the ratio that he begins to drop away from the purest purpose of life."

-L. Ron Hubbard

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