Leading shoot

More of the ideas that lead me.  I just want to stand on shoulders.

"In fact I doubt whether there is a more decisive moment for a thinking being than when the scales fall from his eyes and he discovers that he is not an isolated unit lost in the cosmic solitudes  and realizes that a universal will to live converges and is hominized in him.

"In such a vision man is seen not as a static center of the world - as he for long believed himself to be - but as the axis and leading shoot of evolution, which is something much finer."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, from the Forward.