“You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations” WorldLongRememberUniverseHouseRoomsLandCreationIgnorancePlanetsHugeBuddhismStandingClosetsOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“The universe defies you to answer the following questions: What good is a high paying career if it leaves you continually stressed out and miserable? What good is owning a large stately house if the only time you spend in it is when you sleep in it? What good is having a lot of interesting possessions if you never have the free time to enjoy them? Above all, what good is having a family if you seldom see any of its members?” IfsInspirationalUniverseHouseEnjoySleepAnswersInterestingCareersMembersFollowingPossessionMiserableOnly TimeStressedFree TimeStressed Out Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.” MayStatesUniverseHousePeaceEnemyLandKingdomsEmpires Author:Virchand Gandhi
“My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great meals. I do not believe mankind will ever develop a formula to explain this.” IfsGivingWritingBelieveFunnyScienceUniverseHouseNiceMankindStupidJokesGive MeMealsFormulasReally NiceNice HouseStupid Jokes Author:Joel Klein
“But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?” IfsShouldMayStatesUniverseHouseStrongResultsCitiesClearFieldsEndureStatementsConsiderationDivisionDisagreementGoodwillEnmityAnimosity Book:Cicero in twenty-nine volumes Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes
“Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is "possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell.” WorldMindMayWholeRealitySpiritualUniverseHouseSpaceRoomsExistenceTreeMaterialsOneselfBoundariesPensFountainTransformingTotalityAdmittingMaterial ThingsSpiritual BeingsFountain Pens Author:Josef Pieper
“Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know.” KnowsWantMaySelfLightMightUniverseHouseStarsChanceWhiteLandHugeSpeedTinyFlyingShipsAliensEnterpriseWhite HouseGalaxyChances AreLawnsRoboticsBackyardsFlying Saucers Author:Michio Kaku
“I live the most boring life, away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year [not touring], I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid, and I clean the house. I'm pretty boring.” YearsPersonsMotherUniverseHouseWifeNormalCamerasCleanBoringTouringMaidsBoring Life Author:Carrie Underwood
“Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.” PeopleMenDoeSometimesReasonSeemsHumanityUniverseHouseSpaceRelationMakersMagnitudeVastnessSpecksInsignificance Author:John Piper