Quotes About Universe

As we look way back into the first instants of the Big Bang, we find the quantum world that we described in Chapter 3. From that state, where like effects do not follow from like causes, there must somehow emerge a world resembling our own, where the results of most observations are definite. This is by no means inevitable and may require the Universe to have emerged from a rather special primeval state.

The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the universe to care about us; we want the approval of those around us; we want to get even with that s.o.b. who insulted us at the last tribal council. For most people, wanting to know the cold truth about the world is way, way down the list.

We are a rugged species, up for anything the universe can throw at us; and as the great gloominaries knew, we will be immeasurably better prepared for nasty surprises if we approach the universe realistically — pessimistically — than if we continue to peer out at our surroundings through a distorting, rose-colored prism of wish-fulfillment fantasy.

Each individual that comes into the world is a new beginning; the universe itself is, as it were, taking a fresh start in him and trying to do something, even if on a small scale, that it has never done before.

I question whether the spiritual life does not get its surest and most ample guarantees when it is learned that the laws and conditions of righteousness are implicated in the working processes of the universe; when it is found that man in his conscious struggles, in his doubts, temptations and defeats, in his aspirations and successes, is moved on and buoyed up by the forces which have developed nature.

The atomic doctrine with Democritus' thoroughgoing undertaking to substitute a quantitative185 for a qualitative conception of matter with the location of the qualitative aspects of the world in the experience of the soul appealed only to the Epicurean who used the theory as an exorcism to drive out of the universe the spirits which disturbed the calm of the philosopher.

Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.

Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.

I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?

You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

He knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.

Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.

Who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe.

I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?

Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.