Cosmic Quotes - Page 12

• When you meditate, you activate cosmic energies.

  James Van Praagh

  Energy, Cosmic Energy, Activate

  James Van Praagh (2009). “Meditations with James Van Praagh”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Light, Practice, Inner Beauty

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• The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Keys

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• Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Order, Sun, Worship

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• When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled.

  Maya Tiwari

  Transition, Vulnerable, Form

  Maya Tiwari (2002). “Path of Practice: Ayurvedic Book of Healing with Food, Breath and Sound”, p.349, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time.  As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

  Deepak Chopra

  Soul, Body, Stardust

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• If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and what's important - people being born and dying and everything else that's gonna happen today - if one gay kid in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, reads an X-Men comic and feels for a second like maybe they're not entirely alone in the world - that's amazing. I'll take it. Whatever size victory that is, I will take.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Kids, Gay

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• On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

  Starhawk

  Hate, Women, Compassion

  "Toward an Activist Spirituality" by Starhawk, October 2003.

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• Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol.... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. ..... Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Thinking, Silence

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• As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of the 'illusory' world and speak only of Enlightenment. Or else they chatter of cosmic activities leading to transformations, while neglecting the Substance from which they spring--indeed, there is NEVER any profit in discussion.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Spring, Reality, Roots

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• The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

  Mircea Eliade

  Believe, Reality, Forget

  "Images and Symbols". Book by Mircea Eliade, p. 90-91, 1952.

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• For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.

  Mircea Eliade

  Religious, Reality, Stones

  Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

  Arthur Koestler

  Errors, Political, Single Life

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

  John Updike

  Sex, Health, Order

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.230, Random House

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• Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religion, Mystery, Metaphorical

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• The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

  Theodor Schwenk

  Law, People, Secret

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• In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.

  Chairil Anwar

  Art, Vitality, Finals

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• I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Christian, Religious, Honesty

  Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute”

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• At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.

  Fritjof Capra

  Spiritual, Talking, Understanding

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• Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Lying, Thinking

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• I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

  Billy Joel

  Friendship, Advice, Peter

  Billy Joel (1993). “The Billy Joel Keyboard Book (Songbook): Note-for-Note Keyboard Transcriptions”, p.110, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

  Brian Swimme

  People, Essentials, Stories

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• Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.

  Charles Seife

  Winning, Justice, Luck

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• It wouldn't take us long to discover the substance of that dream. It is found in those majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, words lifted to cosmic proportions: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by God, Creator, with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. This is a dream. It's a great dream.

  Unknown

  Dream, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in so firmly when I was 15 years old. My mother did not like the phrase Cosmic Unity. It was too pretentious. She preferred to call it a world soul.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mother, Years, Soul

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