If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together! - Frank Herbert

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

The mind can go either direction under stress — toward positive or toward negative:

One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It’s a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can’t evade it. I heard my father when he spoke of my mother. She’s not the betrayer, Gurney.