Physicist Brian Greene on Mortality, Our Search for Meaning, and the Most Important Fact of the Universe

When you see all of those stories nested together in one narrative arc it gives a deeper understanding of where we came from, and whats happening at the moment, and ultimately where were going.

Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in letter to his grief-stricken friend, the Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris-Crouy, in 1923 the year he published, after a decade of work,...