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What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with.
What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with.
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. read more
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the read more
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, read more
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, read more
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental read more
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy