The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force in the universe.
Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.
There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.
Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.
The universe is a philosophical abyss.
The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.
Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.
I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.
Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.
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