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• The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.

  Laozi

  Time, Dark, Ideas

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• The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

  Abhinavagupta

  Garden, Space, Consciousness

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• Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.

  Caleb Scharf

  Real, Play, Space

  Caleb Scharf (2012). “Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos”, p.187, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  "The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens".

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• In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.

  Mervyn Peake

  Pain, Real, Doors

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• I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them... in time, and space. A message to lead myself here.

  Russell T Davies

  Space, Messages, Doctor Who

  "Fictional character: Rose". "Doctor Who". Season 1, Episode 13: "The Parting of the Ways", www.imdb.com. June 18, 2005.

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• The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.

  J. G. Ballard

  Games, Space, Imagination

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• To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.

  Ernst Haas

  Lying, Ideas, Space

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• Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Cutting, Space

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

  Lauren Oliver

  Breathing, Two, Space

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• Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

  Daniel Bell

  Art, Space, Quality

  Daniel Bell (1991). “The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys”, p.20, Transaction Publishers

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• I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

  Alan Moore

  Stars, Names, Space

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.

  Tim Ryan

  Stress, Past, Space

  Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.17, Hay House, Inc

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• In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Moving, Space

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• The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Stars, Butterfly, Eye

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• Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?

  Richelle Mead

  Space, Can Do, Sydney Sage

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Dance, Play, Space

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• The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Mother, Art

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• The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

  Marya Mannes

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Space

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• The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Time, Memories, Order

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1817). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions ; and Two Lay Sermons; I. The Statesman's Manual, II. Blessed are Ye that Sow Beside All Waters”, p.144

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• Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Time, Space, Use

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• Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

  Charles Lamb

  Time, Science, Thinking

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 2 January 1810, in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 3 (1978) p. 36

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• The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

  Salvador Dali

  Time, Space, Watches

  1969 Conquest of the Irrational.

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• Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,
  And make two lovers happy.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Two, Space

  'Martinus Scriblerus...or The Art of Sinking in Poetry' ch. 11 (Miscellanies, 1727)

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• All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

  William Johnson Cory

  Time, Space, Law

  'Mimnermus in Church'

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