Cosmos Quotes - Page 22

• A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

  Bernard Malamud

  Lonely, Stars, Loneliness

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Earth, Want, Conquer

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72, 1970.

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• Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.

  Lyall Watson

  Artist, Expression, Space

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• And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beautiful, Morning, Flower

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra

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• Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Real, Men, Knowing

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Age, Realization

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.324, Penguin

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• I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

  Clive James

  Fate, Egomaniacs, World

  "North Face of Soho". Book by Clive James, 2006.

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• Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

  Tom Holt

  Stupid, Elephants, Worry

  Tom Holt (2012). “Djinn Rummy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Self, Energy

  "The essence of Alan Watts".

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• The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

  Franz Liszt

  Spirit, Harmony, Supreme

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• In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Bad Day

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• Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

  Terry Pratchett

  Music, Two, Voice

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• One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Impact, Doors, Cells

  Alberto Villoldo (2015). “One Spirit Medicine: Ancient Ways to Ultimate Wellness”, p.39, Hay House, Inc

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• The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Sweat, Joy, Rewards

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• The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Men, Roots

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.147, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blood, Soul, Depth

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• A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.

  Joe Hyams

  Anxiety, Dojo, Opponents

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.4, Bantam

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• Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

  Camille

  Sex, Night, Light

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• For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reality, Men, Imagination

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• When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns that we unconsciously believe to be true. There is not simply the addition of new metaphors and images, but the metaphors and images themselves flow out of a new consciousness inspired by a new awareness of the cosmos.

  Judy Cannato

  Believe, Talking, Acquisition

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• I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness

  James Lovegrove

  Stars, Lasts, Icy

  James Lovegrove (2009). “The Age of Ra: Special Edition”, p.136, Solaris

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• Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Ideas

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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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• What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Intelligent

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