"Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation."
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"The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths."
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"Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos."
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"What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen."
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"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions."
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"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
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"To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'"
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"One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all."
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"Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
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"In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos."
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"Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything."
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"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light."
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"Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."
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"In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours."
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"The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit."
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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena."
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"A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
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"Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power."
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"As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life."
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