Cosmic Quotes - Page 19

• At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Yield, Comfort

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• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  Bat for Lashes

  Energy, Floating, Soup

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Party, Boys

  1989 Self-Consciousness, VI. 'On Being A Self Forever'.

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• It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Males, Fiction

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• For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ocean, Thinking, Vanity

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• At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Race, Taste

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• Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Reality, Deception, Made

  "Reinventing Nature". Jeremy Rifkin, The Humanist Magazine, Volume 58 (p. 24), March/April 1998.

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• All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!

  Samael Aun Weor

  Drama, Four, Historic

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• A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Harmony, Break, Disorder

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• Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

  Suzy Kassem

  Swimming, Animal, Moon

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• We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

  Terence McKenna

  Greek, Events, Human Experience

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• A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

  Neville Cardus

  Orderliness, Disturbance

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• Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

  Terence McKenna

  Development, Stage

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• Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.

  David Bohm

  Sea, Space, Energy

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• Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

  Jodi Picoult

  Garbage Cans, Details, Goes On

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• Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck", The Saturday Evening Post, p. 17, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. October 26, 1929.

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• I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.

  Bruno Walter

  Art, Men, Ideas

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• Morelli smiled. "It could have been Jenny Ragucci. That makes much more sense. I had good luck with sluts." I looked over at him. All in the past," Morelli said. "I'm a cupcake man now." Whoa, dude," Mooner said. "That's so, like, cosmic.

  Janet Evanovich

  Good Luck, Past, Men

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.334, Macmillan

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• I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.

  Kate Atkinson

  Rain, Profound, Grace

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.277, Macmillan

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• I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

  Frantz Fanon

  Song, Heart, Intelligent

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.27, Grove Press

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• She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated a new generation of grace. A new era began. She is the cosmic bride, Earth, which opens to the heavens and allows itself to be fertilized.

  Paulo Coelho

  Jesus, Brother, Children

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• But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.

  Anne Ursu

  Space, Feelings, Gone

  Anne Ursu, Eric Fortune (2007). “The Shadow Thieves”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sin, Treason

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• Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Self, Desire

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• Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Adventure, Experiments

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