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“Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.”

Whole Universe Change Relation Particles Unchangeable

Book:Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.”

Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth

“Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.”

Knows Men Reason Universe Direct Relation Instruments

Book:I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.”

Men Different Motivational Universe Tree Feet Relation Connected Separation Complexity Branches Fascinating Often Is Differentiation

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.”

Whole Universe Relation Following All Time

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.”

Ifs Feels Seems Universe Speak White Rights Subjects Possibility Relation Clean Breathing Unconscious Contracts Tides Dread Abyss Reserved Infallible Impeccable Clean Shaven

Author:William James

“Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.”

“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”

“I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.”

Source: The private Albert Einstein

“The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.”

World Littles Facts Reality Religion Universe Acceptance Bears Relation Definitions Careful Maps Concrete Adoration Majestic Unfathomable

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.”

Men Art Facts Universe Answers Expression Messages Art Is Relation Unspoken Inarticulate

Book:Renaissance fancies & studies

Source: Renaissance fancies & studies

“The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.”

“We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.”

Way Firsts Lasts Universe Individual Water Fire Relation Breaths Affair Dawn Sunset Cosmos Get Back Ritual Household Vivid Noon Pouring Kindling

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.”

Kind May Mean Two Universe Process Subjects Relation Definitions Operations Mutual Desirable

Author:Ada Lovelace

“Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.”

Certain Universe Term Unique Standards Relation Productions Ideology Blah Unique Experiences

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“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.”

People Men Doe Sometimes Reason Seems Humanity Universe House Space Relation Makers Magnitude Vastness Specks Insignificance

Author:John Piper