“Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.” ThinkingHumansKindGodSeemsSpiritUniverseWhiteChildhoodProjectsConceptsFemaleEssenceProfoundMalesCreatorDebateRidiculousBeardOmnipotentIndescribableChapelOmniscientDepictionSistine Chapel Book:Living Faith Source: Living Faith
“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.” IfsFeelsSeemsUniverseSpeakWhiteRightsSubjectsPossibilityRelationCleanBreathingUnconsciousContractsTidesDreadAbyssReservedInfallibleImpeccableClean Shaven Author:William James
“Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world - and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.” MenWorldUniverseLiteratureChallengesWhiteExistenceVisionEmbraceNotionFamiliarCelebrateScholarWhite ManMulticulturalShrinking Author:Jessica Hagedorn
“Visualize the soft white light continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the earth, the sky, the universe, and all of infinity.” LightEarthUniverseWhiteMeditationSkyBuddhismFilledInfinityContinuingSwirlsWhite LightChakra Meditation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.” MenEndsWholeGovernmentHumanityUniverseHoursWhiteCitiesConditionsConversationArmyDesertSandOrganizeMossFeasting Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.” PeopleWayFirstsLittlesWarEndsBigsHappensUniverseWhiteSunForeverProduceTheoryCloudsTinyReactionsChainsDesertDirtyBombsSandAtomic BombChain ReactionsWhite Sand Author:Stephen King
“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