He blunders about like an ape in an apiary, infuriating the inhabitants and missing all the sweetness! - Sheri S. Tepper

If we can."
"No matter if you can or not. You must."
Anger bested her. "That's not logical. That's completely arbitrary. To demand that someone do something he may not be able to do."
"We have consulted Files." The voice bubbled with hideous laughter. "Gods often demand that people do things they cannot do or things that are dangerous or onerous or hateful. And when the people fail, gods punish them. Should I be less a god than they?

You felt something huge and marvelous of which you are part, and in the moments you described, you forgot yourself for you were one with your world and with the sky above it, and even the stars looking down. There is nothing larger or more wonderful than that. Still, there are those who would prefer self. They will accept any belief, no matter how foolish, if it guarantees them personal immortality. I know people like that. But there are others who know themselves well enough to realize how limiting that is.

If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law.