We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can't know.

Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight (ed. Grand Central Publishing, 2009) - ISBN: 9780446567831