Cosmos Quotes - Page 11

• A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Appreciation, Language

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• If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.

  Robert Grudin

  Baby, Communication, Thinking

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Astrology, Goal, Personality

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• Every religious tradition on which we draw has a reverence for life. We are a part of an intricate web of life. Every tradition on which we draw teaches that the ultimate expression of our spirituality is our action. Deep spirituality leads to action in the world. A deep reverence for life, love of nature's complex beauty and sense of intimate connection with the cosmos leads inevitably to a commitment to work for environmental and social justice.

  Peter Morales

  Religious, Love Life, Commitment

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• Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Our World, Feels

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.79, North Atlantic Books

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• When we will all see our role in society as servants, we will all light up the sky together like countless stars on a dark night. Don’t think of society as the sky on a full moon night. The moon’s harsh light blinds us to the true and humble work of the stars. But on a moonless night, the true servants shine forth, as though they are connected invisibly in this vast and infinite cosmos.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Stars, Humble, Dark

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself.

  Carl Jung

  Order, Broken, Psychology

  "The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious".

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• For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

  Tom Kenyon

  Sound, Architecture, Language

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• The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mirrors, Inner Strength, Environment

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• Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only those universes that are compatible with our existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Spring, Creation, Lord

  "The Grand Design". Book by Stephen Hawking, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2010.

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• When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, "It makes me feel so insignificant." I answer, "The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast, impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up." We've abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.

  Alan Dressler

  Meaningful, Spring, Believe

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• Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true. But with Possibilianism I’m hoping to define a new position - one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities. Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.

  David Eagleman

  Religious, Ignorance, Men

  "Stray Questions for: David Eagleman". Interview with Blake Wilson, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.

  Edmund Bourne

  Years, Civilization, Technological Development

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• Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.

  Huston Smith

  Distance, Animal, Rocks

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• Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Math, Mind Blowing, Language

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2011

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• It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

  Murray Leinster

  Insanity, Symptoms, Humans

  "The Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, Chapter 4, 1964.

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• How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Would Be, Hammers, Higher

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spring, Practice, Understanding

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• Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Humble, Science, Past

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• Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered each other because of them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Views, Differences, Perspective

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2017). “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

  James Hillman

  Archetype, Settings, Universe

  James Hillman, Thomas Moore (2013). “The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire”, p.24, Routledge

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• Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, a term meaning Path or Way, but denoting in this peculiar case the way, course or movement of the Universe, her processes and methods. In other words, Taoism is the Religion of Heaven and Earth, of the Cosmos, of the World or Nature in the broadest sense of these words. Hence we may call it Naturism.

  Jan Jakob Maria de Groot

  Heaven, Taoism, Peculiar

  Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (1892). “The Religious System of China: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspects, Manners, Custom and Social Institutions Connected Therewith”, p.66, Brill Archive

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• Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But if, as we believe, human life resulted from a purposeful act of God, and if sin is inevitable for such beings, and if the human soul is the prize for which Satan and God do battle, then it hardly makes sense to have this same process repeated on countless other planets throughout the cosmos.

  Dave Hunt

  Believe, Soul, Battle

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• The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

  Laird Barron

  Light, Blood, Shining

  Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.

  David W. Orr

  Powerful, Journey, Long

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