Quotes About Cosmos

The Incarnation was a glorious event, and we don't want any diminution of that celebration. But the resurrection of the Lord was what remade the cosmos, and we should strive over time to have our celebration of Easter far surpass the glory of Christmas. We are currently more than a little lopsided—and we shouldn't try to fix this by reducing what we do at Christmas.

The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.

I saw within Its depth how It conceives all things in a single volume bound by Love, of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life.

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.

As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

We're going six thousand miles an hour around the sun and nobody's driving this bitch!" said Gary Busey from the woods, where, for his own reasons, he was halfway up an eighty-foot pine tree.

As I squat to pee I look upward at the billions of stars and planets in the heavens and somehow my own insignificance no longer terrifies me as it once did, but comforts me, makes me feel a part, however tiny, of the whole complete and perfect universe. . . and when I die the wind will still blow and the stars still shine, for the place I occupy on earth is no more permanent than the water I now make, absorbed by the the sandy soil, dried instantly by the constant prairie wind . . .

Today the cosmic wheel turns and opens fully to the West. The hours of light and dark are exactly equal on this first day of fall.