Universe Quotes - Page 23

• Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Giving Up, Pie

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.29, editionNEXT.com

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• Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Zero, Teaching, Night

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3204, Manonmani Publishers

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• If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hurt, May, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.82, Advaita Ashrama

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• Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never existed, that there is only I. Flash-the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Zero, Thinking

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• The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Soul, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.877, Manonmani Publishers

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• The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it passes through the forms of time, space, causation, is called by different names, buddhi, fine matter, gross matter, all mental and physical forms. Everything in the universe is that One, appearing in various forms. When a little part of it comes, as it were, into this network of time, space and causation, it takes forms. Take off the network, and it is all one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Names, Space

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Littles, Life Is, Moments

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.18, editionNEXT.com

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• This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  School, Heaven, Earth

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Errors, Tiny, Trouble

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mystery, Moments, Intense

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

  Woody Allen

  Crumbs, Results, Humans

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Philosophy, Moving

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• I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Issues, Tacky

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• There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Space, Interiors

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• And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

  Terence McKenna

  Singing, Unseen, Exploration

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• What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Unique, Thinking

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• This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

  Terence McKenna

  Law, Novelty, Complexity

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• If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

  Terence McKenna

  Novelty, Facts, Conservation

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• The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

  Terence McKenna

  Limits, Bangs, Tests

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• Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that's the only thing that matters.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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• The world ends when I die. And as far as I'm concerned, the rest of the universe might as well call it a day too.

  Matt Groening

  World, Might, Ends

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• Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

  Natalie Massenet

  Believe, Different, Moments

  "Natalie Massenet: The Chairman of Cool" by Mike Albo, www.glamour.com. October 30, 2013.

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• One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Needs, Physics

  "Stephen Hawking: 'Science Makes God Unnecessary'". Interview with Nick Watt, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2010.

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• The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Attitude, Order, Giving

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• You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

  Suzy Kassem

  Song, World, Shapes

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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