When I think of life as communion with the universe, I am no longer disheartened by negativity in the world. We interact with all other living things on this planet, all the inanimate matter in the universe. We’re part of the soup of particles, and we all mix in with each other and everything. We are the universe. With such a perspective, it becomes easy to want to contribute to its continued evolution in a positive way that makes the universe better. We can change the world.