My atheism, like that of , is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.
The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.
I don’t have to extend my hand to greet you. A wink can reach across the room. And a wink in a telescope can stretch across the universe.
As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.
Self-esteem...is there any greater force in the universe that can help you get things done in your life?
Happiness is feeling confident that the god of this universe is pleased with the things you say and do.
Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.
Here in your heart, deep in your soul, resides the universe’s collective wisdom, waiting for expression through your life’s experience.
That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.
Having had a transcendental experience as a teenager with the assistance of a hallucinogen, Madeline remains certain that the universe is too vast and beautiful to bother with gods.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.
The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.
you are a volume in the divine book a mirror to the power that created the universe whatever you want, ask it of yourself whatever you're looking for can only be found inside of you
