“Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it's God. You are God.” MeditationEternitySamadhiImmensity Author:Frederick Lenz
“Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.” ThinkingDoePhilosophyUniverseEternityPhilosophicalUnhappinessImmensity Author:Mason Cooley
“When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.” KnowsI CanSpaceEternityInfiniteAll TimeFrightenedKnow MeSmall PartsImmensity Author:Blaise Pascal
“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.” HumansHomeAgeScienceLostUnderstandingOrdinaryEternitySizeTinyCosmosImmensityPale Blue Dot Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos
“The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.” StillsHomeNightFallPassionHouseHeavenStarsGrowsDarkWatchesDarknessTreeSkyLandCallingStonesEternitySightBlueAncientSunsetCoatsImmensityDarkeningAncient Trees Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.” FacesScientistEternityStaringImmensity Author:Carolyn Porco
“It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity in space, infinity in finite, immutability in change, being in becoming, the all, as it were, in that which is nothing. This mystery cannot be comprehended; it can only be gratefully acknowledged.” SpaceKnownMysteryBecomingEternityInfinityFiniteImmensity Book:Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation Source: Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation
“The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.” SoulSometimesFormSpaceWiseUniversalEternitySubstanceImmensityGoeth Author:Giordano Bruno