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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Infinite, Barbs

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Prayer, Compassion, Silence

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.11, Arktos

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• Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

  Max Beckmann

  Space, Depth, Three

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Fire, Sparks

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• Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

  Thomas Merton

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Profound

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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• Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Atoms, Useless

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• While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

  Eric Butterworth

  People, Trying, Tunes

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• The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

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  Ram Dass

  Space, Soul, Infinite

  "Grace is Here!". Interview with David Ulrich, parabola.org. May 18, 2017.

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• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Religion, Literature, Unfathomable

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• By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

  Thomas More

  Spiritual, Soul, Vision

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ideas, Movement, Losing

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.364, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Principles, Gothic, Architecture

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.199

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• And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

  Bruce Catton

  Track, Shining, Steel

  Bruce Catton, Oliver Jensen (1993). “Bruce Catton's America: Selections from His Greatest Works”, Promontory

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• Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

  Andrew Wiles

  Four, Want, Mathematician

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

  Edgar Quinet

  Satisfaction, Mistrust, Possession

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72

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• If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Men, Sea, Growing

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

  Alan Watts

  Religious, Ideas, Religion

  Alan Watts (1950). “The Supreme Identity: An Essay on Oriental Metaphysic and the Christian Religion”, Vintage

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• Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Despair, Faces, Debauchery

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• Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.

  David Levithan

  Distance, Two, Infinite

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Women, Clouds

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• until only infinity remained of beauty

  John Ashbery

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• the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

  Matsuo Basho

  Emptiness, Empty, Intimate

  Matsuo Basho (2003). “A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen”, p.18, Counterpoint Press

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• Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

  Marston Morse

  Play, Design, Important

  Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag

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