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• Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness;  by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happiness, Success, Law

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• .. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally to the family household and its daily operations and maintenance." The term ecology is therefore intended to refer to the study of the conditions of existence that pertain to, and the interactions between, all the entities that make up our larger, cosmic household here upon earth.

  Warwick Fox

  Greek, Maintenance, Earth

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• Life as such has to be taken as a cosmic joke - and then suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense about. And in that very relaxation something starts changing in you - a radical change, a transformation - and the small things of life starts having new meaning, new significance. One learns only one thing, how to rejoice in life.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Change, Taken

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• Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one...And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.

  Michael Moorcock

  Past, Men, Secret

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.385, Del Rey

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• The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Energy, Might, Waking

  Theodore Dreiser (1977). “Theodore Dreiser: a selection of uncollected prose”, Wayne State Univ Pr

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• FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Agency, Infinite Intelligence

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.46, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.

  Abdul Kalam

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  "Wings of Fire: An Autobiography".

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• The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Views, Insane

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Aug 19, 2013

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• Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Essence, Practice, People

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• The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an
  unspoken cosmic rule.

  Bree Despain

  Broken, Promise, Problem

  Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.16, Egmont UK

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• Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.

  Eddie Griffin

  Hippie, Rocks, Guy

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• In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and Newton do not occur yet their cosmic quest destroyed the medieval vision of an immutable social order in a walled-in universe and transformed the European landscape, society, culture, habits and general outlook, as thoroughly as if a new species had arisen on this planet.

  Arthur Koestler

  Order, Names, Historical

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• Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Events, Moments, Individual

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.263, Shambhala Publications

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• When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.

  Deepak Chopra

  Destiny, Desire, Consciousness

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• ...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary exchanges is surely not their commonalities under physical description. A natural kind like a monetary exchange could turn out to be co-extensive with a physical natural kind; but if it did, that would be an accident on a cosmic scale.

  Jerry Fodor

  Knowledge, Law, Interesting

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• Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

  Lorraine Moller

  Sports, Running, Spiritual

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• It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Law, Evil

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 70), 2006.

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• Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, People, Political

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• There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives off is counterbalanced by the energy which it receives.

  William Thomas Councilman

  Life, Independent, Science

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• For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

  David Zindell

  War, Fall, Men

  "The Wild". Book by David Zindell, 1995.

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• Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Pride, Space, Monsters

  Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (8 March 1929), in "Selected Letters II, 1925-1929" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 316), 1968.

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• The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

  Atisa

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Meditation

  "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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• Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Religious, Pain, Feelings

  H.P. Lovecraft (2012). “The Complete Fiction Collection vol III”, p.502, Lulu.com

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• The Gods have meant
  That I should dance
  And in some mystic hour
  I shall move to unheard rhythms
  Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven
  And you will know the language
  Of my wordless poems
  And will come to me
  For that is why I dance.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Moving, Heaven

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• No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Emotional, Order

  H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, James Turner (1976). “Selected Letters 1934-1937”, Arkham House Publishers

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