We are the senses of the galaxies, called to recognize their pain in our own and to feel it on behalf of all being. We stand together as the chorus of the universe, singing in our suffering of all suffering and its healing through love. Our vocation is to see that no one suffers alone, that no pain goes unnoticed, and none is without meaning. We are the medium through which the cosmos feels its heartbreak but also the mediators of its comfort and resurrection.
— Eugene Kennedy, 9-11: Meditations at the Center of the World