The new art of living requires an awareness that learning constitutes the very process of the life of a human being and that when learning stops a person stops and a civilization dies. Learning is a process that has no end as long as one is in this world. The world itself is the primary school for learning and needs to be understood as that. Learning constitutes the deepest prayer of the human person, the deepest awareness that she or he is a modality of process reflecting the cosmogenesis as a whole, a microcosm in a beautiful macrocosm.
MANIFESTO for a global civilization by Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme, p. 47.