The consciousness we possess as human beings, contrary to being a special endowment with which we seek to lord it over the rest of creation, needs to be freshly understood as an integral dimension of the ‘intelligence’ that permeates all life in the universe. The greater intelligence is the superior form, not ours. We belong to a reality greater than ourselves, an envelope of consciousness informing our awareness, intuition and imagination – in what is essentially an intelligent universe. All our thoughts, dreams and aspirations arise from this cosmic wellspring within which we live and grow, and are empowered to realise our full potential as planetary, cosmic creatures. Anything short of this global engagement leaves us unfulfilled, frustrated and ultimately alienated from God and humanity.
Reclaiming Spirituality, by Diarmuid O’Murchu, p. 99.