“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.” IfsThinkingStillsRealMightReligionUnderstandingChanceDivineEgoSecondsExperiencing Something Author:John Cleese
“Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.” MenUnderstandingNaturalChanceBentUnderstanding Nature Book:The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings Source: The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings
“When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration.” WorldMindIdeasSoulLawUniverseUnderstandingChancePerfectFitGoodnessCreatingRaisesBlindStructureAdmirationConceptionAtomsContemplatingFortuitous Book:Philosophical works Source: Philosophical works
“"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.” ReasonFactsHappensMotivationUniverseUnderstandingChanceOur LivesEventsInfiniteBlindCaptainsAnything Can HappenHappenstanceInfinite Universe Author:Barry N. Malzberg
“The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible.” IfsTryingStillsImportantRealLightMightOrderUnderstandingChurchChanceMeditationDivineBecomingActivityMembersEgoSizeSecondsReducingInfluentialProfileEgotisticalManageableHigh ProfileExperiencing Something Author:John Cleese
“If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.” IfsPersonsUnderstandingChanceCompassionKindnessEnvironmentSeedsExposedLoving KindnessLoving Person Author:Nhat Hanh
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.” ThinkingFirstsBelieveArtMadeReasonPhilosophyAbleEarthHeavenCausesUnderstandingNaturalChanceAtheismEffectsSkillsArt IsEternityInfiniteAtheistFoolishCirclesMade ItBeastFollyFabricCentreHeaven And EarthOysters Author:Jeremy Taylor