“Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.” KnowsMatterUniverseGoes OnNo Matter What Author:Lindsay Wagner
“The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.” HelpingRunningLife IsPurposeUniversePerfectEnvironmentLandGoes OnPerfectionUltimateAimBusyHeavenlyPurpose Of LifeFuture Life Author:Edwin Markham
“You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.” SufferingDiesUniverseBornViewsForeverGoes OnHorrorUltimatePoint Of ViewUnhappy Author:Frederick Lenz
“Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.” MatterTogetherSpiritUniverseForeverMovementGoes OnDancingPartnersRhythmReincarnationTogether As One Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.” EndsFormDeathUniverseRealizingForeverWonderfulGoes On Author:Frederick Lenz
“While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.” MindKindUniverseGoes OnAriseAll KindsHelpfulGossipTrafficThreateningLet It GoMeditatingChatterJust Let It Go Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.” SoulMatterWholeBodyUniverseForeverGoes OnNo Matter WhatExplanationTemporaryDragExtensionsVessel Author:RuPaul
“Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.” StoriesHappensUniverseReadingNextWaitingPossibilityGoes OnDividesVersesInterventionEvery Second Author:Jeanette Winterson
“'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?” MenMayDoneUniverseGivenBehindsWatchesHe ManTheoryWallGoes OnConceptsUnityGlassesStrikesThickQuantumParticipationMechanicObserversParticipantsQuantum Mechanics Author:John Archibald Wheeler
“Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.” NeedsMindSeemsUniverseCenturyGoes OnMythAllowingHookTwentieth CenturyGrandeurUnexplainedMind Free Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful commerce of nature. And all because of dissimilarity--because no one thing is sufficient in itself, but calls for the assistance of something else, and repays by a contribution in turn.” BeautifulTurnsUniverseOne ThingPlanetsGoes OnBlessingOceanPlantSufficientContributionClimbsCommerceExhaustedLeafsAssistanceHerbsReciprocityRottingVaporArteriesSunbeams Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“I think that when you go on a shamanic journey, you're allowing yourself to have much more access to your unconscious or your sense of connection within the universe, whatever you want to call that. You've accessed places in your brain that you don't normally. You're still there - it's your brain. But you have access in a way that you normally don't. For me, doing that felt like being in a new environment.” ThinkingWayWantStillsUniverseFeltBrainEnvironmentJourneyGoes OnConnectionsAccessUnconsciousAllowingNew Environment Author:Amy Hardie