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“The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be?”

Ifs States Death Universe Sleep Consciousness Source Illusion Universal Unity All Time Realization Waking Threshold Unbroken Transitory Indivisible States Of Consciousness

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.”

Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

“I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?”

Ifs Believe Universe Space Creator Arrogant If You Believe Outer Space

Author:Gene Cernan

“If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.”

Ifs Knows Real Play Order Universe Acting Roles Emotional Vulnerability Theme Temporary Availability

Author:DJ Qualls

“When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Shows Universe Cities Dangerous New York Mindset Los Angeles New York City Show Business Center Of The Universe

Author:Ed Helms

“I say to the grown-ups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'”

Ifs World Want Kids Universe Fine Evolution Deny Inconsistent

Author:Bill Nye

“I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. Its just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.”

Ifs Way Giving Has Beens Helping Shows Might Form Universe Chance Wonderful Asking Brands Help Me New Life Show Business Take A Chance Brand New

Author:Louie Anderson

“The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.”

Ifs Past Universe Pay Mistake Principles Cost Economics Refuse Our Future Basic Principles

Author:Brian Herbert

“We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe”

Ifs Knows Universe Logic Lays Welcome Frightened Homeless Frontiers Abhorrent

Book:A Heritage of Stars

Source: A Heritage of Stars

“In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.”

Ifs Self Use Law Universe Names Conditions Awareness Activity Absolutes Labels Temporary Infinity Laws Of Nature Unchanging Inexorable Short Lived Withering Ephemera

Author:Frank Herbert

“All my life I've heard people say, 'God loves you.' It's probably the most insane statement you could make to say that the eternal Creator of this universe is in love with me. There is a response that ought to take place in believers, a crazy reaction to that love. Do you really understand what God has done for you? If so, why is response so lukewarm?”

People Ifs Done Universe Heard Crazy Love You Ought Eternal Response Creator Believer Reactions Statements Insane God Love Lukewarm God Loves You

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.”

Ifs Universe Disappear

Author:R. C. Sproul

“If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something has gone wrong with the universe that's supposed to be perfect, we can demonstrate serenity and confidence in problem solving for our kids.By telling them that we know they have a problem and we know they can solve it, we can pass on a realistic attitude as well as empower our children with self-confidence and a sense of their own worth.”

“If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.”

Ifs Sometimes Universe Stars Parent Understood Constant Fixed Spheres Sibling Celestial Dazzling Comets Scorching

Author:Alison Gopnik

“Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist who makes discoveries or theories that apply to the greatest ambit of things in the world. And if you've only made a very good theory about snails, or a very good theory about some planets but not about the universe as a whole, or about all the history of humankind, then you have in some sense accepted a lower position in the hierarchy of the fame of science as it's taught to you as a young student.”

“If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of the universe endlessly twist and vibrate, rhythmically beating out the laws of the cosmos.”

Ifs Law Universe Theory Cosmos Strings Fabric Twists Labyrinth Vibrate Intertwined String Theory

Book:The Elegant Universe

Source: The Elegant Universe

“It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?”

“The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.”

Ifs Way Years Humans May Earth Lasts Universe Sun Minutes Locals Seconds Cosmic September June July August December January Calendars Last Minute Milky Way Local History January 1st

Author:Carl Sagan

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”

“One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.”

Ifs Trying Stills Ideas Shows Dies Universe Knowing Balls Mysticism Mechanism Spinning Coping Coping Mechanisms

Author:Robin Ince

“I would not spend one further moment on the subject of UFOs if I didnt seriously feel that the UFO phenomenon is real and that efforts to investigate and understand it, and eventually to solve it, could have a profound effect -- perhaps even be the springboard to mankinds outlook on the universe.”

Ifs Feels Real Moments Universe Effort Subjects Mankind Effects Profound Solve Phenomenon Outlook Ufo Springboards

Author:J. Allen Hynek

“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.”

“If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.”

Ifs Want Firsts Universe Pie Scratches

Author:Carl Sagan

“The only way to truly be protected at all times is to claim your personal power with the highest code of ethics and responsibility. If you are centered in this type of power, the power of the universe supports you, and no one and nothing can defeat you.”

Ifs Way Universe Responsibility Support Type Highest Ethics Claims Defeat All Time Code Protected Personal Power Support You Code Of Ethics

Book:The Witch's Shield: Protection Magick & Psychic Self-defense

Source: The Witch's Shield: Protection Magick & Psychic Self-defense

“If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.”

Ifs Would Be Universe Wealth Effort Atheism Produce Resources Positive Atheism Ashamed Schemes Humiliating

Book:Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage

Source: Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage

“If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?”

Ifs Knows Culture Universe Theory Stranger Alternatives Cycles Fulfilling

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.”

Ifs Believe Persons Universe Three Force Students Taught Smart Doctors Creator Physics Invisible Idiotic Pseudoscience Meds

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Earth Universe Sound Example Planets Aliens Unusual Solar System

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.”

Ifs World Trying Mean Hard Universe Difficult Impossible Packs Difficult Things World Love Exaggerating

Book:#Girlboss

Source: #Girlboss

“And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.”

Ifs Giving Heart Law Universe Goal Devotional Universal Laws Repayment Repaying

Author:Bear Grylls

“Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?”

Ifs Way Happens School Universe Evolution Members Vote Scary Fund Proven Taxpayers Jury Textbooks

Author:Kent Hovind

“When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study the universe just like me - how could they not? This naiveté is what tells me that my interest was more a calling than a rational comparative assessment about what to be when I grew up.”

Ifs Way Want Kids Universe Interest Study Grew Calling Grew Up Like Me Rational Assessment

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Earth Joy Universe Heaven Wonderful Planets Wind Dancing Killing Blow Spoil Killing It

Author:Alice Walker

“I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.”

People Ifs Way Giving Feels Heart Soul Whole Purpose Universe Given Can Do Fine Absolutes Heart And Soul Sync

Author:Alice Walker

“We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, "Stop, look at the universe."”

People Ifs Thinking Looks War Earth Universe Planets Perspective Army Distance Convinced Cosmic Legion Specks Astrophysics Waging War

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle.”

Ifs Persons Home Universe Speak Becoming Built Structure Architecture Supreme Architect Vehicle Stadiums

Author:RZA

“There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.”

“A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.”

Ifs Law Universe Existence Atheism Currents Positive Atheism Physics Stable Scenarios Cosmology Laws Of Physics

Author:Victor J. Stenger

“You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.”

“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?”

Ifs Should May States Universe House Strong Results Cities Clear Fields Endure Statements Consideration Division Disagreement Goodwill Enmity Animosity

Book:Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

Source: Cicero in twenty-nine volumes

“The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.”

Ifs World Spirit Universe Wonder Wonderful Filled Terror Engines Immense Magnificent Amusement

Author:George Santayana

“What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?”

Ifs Men Should Years Littles Ends Matter Lasts Universe Knowledge Our Lives Higher Ten Should Have Eternity Infinity What Matters Duration More Knowledge

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.”

Ifs Thinking Way Reality Truth Universe Opinion Feet Wall Fit Stones Gaps Thinker Boots Coats Fitting

Book:The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

“Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.”

“There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.”

“If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.”

Ifs Men Play Wanted Universe Justice Fellows Possession Every Man Damage Possessed Interfere Fellow Man

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.”

“If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting. However, if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate, gravity would never be strong enough to stop it, and the universe would continue to expand forever.”

Ifs Enough Certain Universe Strong Force Causes Forever Rate Critical Gravity Expanding Strong Enough Contracting

Book:The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

Source: The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

“Be willing to take some risks in the areas of work and money. If we do only what we think we should do in order to make money and be secure, we won't listen to the intuitive voice that tells us to try something new, to be more creative, or to move on to the next step on our path. When we listen to our intuition and take some risks, we are not alone. The universe will support us and reward us for taking risks on its behalf!”

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

“If you are always waiting to be, do, or have what you want, your energy becomes blocked. Your body may reflect this in excess weight or other physical problems. Express yourself directly. Set clear boundaries with other people and do what you need to do to take good care of yourself. Energy will then move freely through your body and this circulation will dissolve any excess weight. The more you are willing to be yourself, the less you'll need to use food as a substitute nurturer. You will be receiving the natural nurturing of the universe.”

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