Cosmos Quotes - Page 17

• There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

  Paul Goodman

  Silence, Dumb, Soul

  Paul Goodman (1972). “Speaking and language: defence of poetry”, Random House, [1972

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• Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little influenced by social systems, have always responded instinctively to latent assumptions about the shape of the universe. The incomprehensibility of our new cosmos seems to me, ultimately, to be the reason for the chaos of modern art.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Shapes, Littles

  "Civilisation" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. 13), 1969.

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• The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.

  Eric Voegelin

  Lying, Balance, Precarious

  Eric Voegelin, Michael Franz (2000). “Order and History”, p.123, University of Missouri Press

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• Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality.

  Bhikkhu Bodhi

  Heart, Reality, Personal Opinions

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• Those who have overcome self-will and become instruments to do God's work can accomplish tasks which are seemingly impossible, but they experience no feeling of self achievement. I now know myself to be a part of the infinite cosmos, not separate from other souls or God. My illusory self is dead; the real self controls the garment of clay and uses it for God's work.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Self, Achievement

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Secret, Mystery, Infinite

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Epic, People, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles.

  Mike Love

  Powerful, Love Is, Creating

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding rather than unwriting it.

  Jon Spaihts

  Understanding, Want, Mystical

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos.

  Nhat Hanh

  White, Black, Call Me

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• We are living in an inspiring and unimaginably large universe. Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it. You have 37.2 trillion cells in your body. There is vastness outside you and vastness inside you. You are connected to this mystery, you are a microcosm of the universe, and every aspect of your life benefits from the universe's provision.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Thinking, Cells, Benefits

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Artist

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.

  Alexander Eliot

  Angel, Heart, Moon

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• Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

  Carl Sagan

  Men, Matter, Contemplating

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• It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.

  Sallust

  Art, Healing, Principles

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• The nature of the cosmos is such that whatever vision you have about yourself and the world will become reality. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Reality, Vision, World

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• There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Spiritual, Planes, Materials

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• The system that keeps cosmic beings in a bullshit frame of mind of what existence is to make money off them, use them for their own sick games, perpetuate religions and fear, keeping them small in their heads when they are the divine and we are one force of creative love light mind in a universe of co-creation, cosmic experience, self-expression who should be completely sustained by the cosmos without these power-pigs who kill bodies with chemicals and enslave minds and hide the truths of the universe from them and deal with aliens.

  Giuseppe Andrews

  Expression, Games, Light

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.

  Thomas Keating

  Responsibility, Intelligent, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Men, Significant

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• Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Mouths, Littles

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• Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Divine Order, Community, Decision

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• Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?

  Umberto Eco

  Couple, Encounters, Damnation

  "Foucault's Pendulum". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Destiny, Self Improvement

  Deepak Chopra (2011). “Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams”, p.247, Bantam

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• Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos?

  Poul Anderson

  Science, Wipe, Faces

  "The Broken Sword".

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