Universe Quotes - Page 30

• When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we're going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.

  Krishna Das

  Selfish, Views, Talking

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• Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

  Krishna Das

  Hurt, Real, Emotional

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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• The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Dream, Country, Self

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• Entanglement can best be understood as this: When subatomic matter is in a process together, subsequently the subatomic particles go apart from each other and go across the universe. When they do this, they will remain entangled. That means if you do something to one, the other one responds immediately, instantaneously.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Mean, Together, Across The Universe

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The quantum hologram is a mechanism to explain this concept of the ancients of the Akashic Records. It also explains Rupert Sheldrake's work among animals [his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, leading to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory].

  Edgar Mitchell

  Memories, Animal, Vision

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intelligent, Thinking, Errors

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Mistake, Thinking, Creating

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.

  Bill Ayers

  Eye, Expanding Universe, Knowing

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Voice, Tunes, Consciousness

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• The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience.

  Chapman Cohen

  Mean, Rabbits, Able

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• The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Law, Moral, Constitution

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• If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Passion, Important, Acquiring Things

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• Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.

  Timothy Leary

  Numbers, Space, People

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• Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain.

  Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

  Brain, Prison

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• Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Love Is, Men

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• To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

  Alan Watts

  Morning, Thinking, Limits

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• We must only learn that independence cannot be gained by a rebellion against the constitution of the universe, or by inverting the laws of life and evolution, but by comprehending them and adapting ourselves to the world in which we live.

  Paul Carus

  Law, Independence, World

  Paul Carus (2008). “The History of the Devil: With 350 Illustrations”, p.473, Courier Corporation

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• The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

  Maureen Dowd

  Gay, White, Sick

  "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Dear Lord, Numbers, Grace

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• For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Roger, Disaster

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• The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

  Steve Coogan

  Tabloids, Lines, Selling

  "Steve Coogan: Why I won't let News Corp off the hook" by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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• I beg you to believe the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or frustrateor of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, Believe, Humanity

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• ...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity.

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn

  Thinking, Foundation, Doe

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn (2013). “The Ultimate Canon of Knowledge”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Strange, Observers

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• That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Fusion, Essentials

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