Cosmic Quotes - Page 4

• My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Past, Humanity, World

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• The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Discovery, Literature, Logic

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.105, Random House

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
  Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Letters, Comic, Divides

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• God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man's redemption was accomplished at the cross.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Son, Men

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Apr 04, 2015

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• You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

  Caroline Myss

  Dream, Ambition, Personality

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• God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Wisdom, Father, Home

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?

  Victor Francis Hess

  Rays, Riddle, Stills

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• It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Atmosphere, Rays, Answers

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• Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

  John Polkinghorne

  Tyrants, Ideas

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• The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

  Walther Bothe

  Radiation, Complicated, Process

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• The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Rays, Investigation, Interest

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• Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

  Thomas Merton

  Fire, Victory, Wheels

  Thomas Merton (1997). “Dancing In The Water Of Life Volume 5:1963-1965: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage”, HarperOne

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• An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

  Bernie Glassman

  Philosopher, Comic, Said

  Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.16, Penguin

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• If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

  C. S. Lewis

  Omnipotence, Ifs

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bangs, Mystery, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Law, Perfect, Mind

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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• Don't look at prayer as me asking God to give me something, like some type of cosmic bell captain, look at prayer as my communication with the quantum intelligence, the divine intelligence that we have out there and that is how things are manifested.

  John Assaraf

  Prayer, Communication, Giving

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.

  Deepak Chopra

  Body, Radio, Consciousness

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• Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unity, Realizing, Consciousness

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 28, 2011

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• Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Progress, Littles, Tiny

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?" (p. 327), 1995.

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• I think Gods wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. Its like a cosmic do-over.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Thinking, Wrath, Ideas

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• I know, by the Lord's grace, I am a small part in the cosmic play.

  George Harrison

  Play, Grace, Lord

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• It's important to remember that life is a joke and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

  John Mulaney

  Thinking, Laughing, Perspective

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with TIME, time.com. February 21, 2017.

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• Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the being of the entire universe. It is the eternal song of the Divine.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Energy, Divinity

  Amit Ray (2010). “OM Chanting and Meditation”, p.16, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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