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“The idea that consciousness and life (and indeed all things) are ensembles enfolded throughout the universe has an equally dazzling flip side. Just as every portion of a hologram contains the image of the whole, every portion of the universe enfolds the whole. This means that if we knew how to access it we could find the Andromeda galaxy in the thumbnail of our left hand. We could also find Cleopatra meeting Caesar for the first time, for in principle the whole past and implications for the whole future are also enfolded in each small region of space and time. Every cell in our body enfolds the entire cosmos. So does every leaf, every raindrop, and every dust mote, which gives new meaning to William Blake’s famous poem: To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe

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“All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.” Soen Nakagawa

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“What a wonderful and amazing scheme we have here of the magnificent vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths …!” Christiaan Huygens, New Conjectures Concerning the Planetary Worlds, Their Inhabitants and Productions (c. 1670)

“Time and space are my inheritance from my father and the star.” Loren Eiseley, The Invisible Pyramid

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“The basic mood of the future might well be one of confidence in the continuing revelation that takes place in and through the Earth. If the dynamics of the Universe from the beginning shaped the course of the heavens, lighted the Sun, and formed the Earth, if this same dynamism brought forth the continents and seas and atmosphere, if it awakened life in the primordial cell and then brought into being the unnumbered variety of living beings, and finally brought us into being and guided us safely through the turbulent centuries, there is reason to believe that this same guiding process is precisely what has awakened in us our present understanding of ourselves and our relation to this stupendous process. Sensitized to such guidance from the very structure and functioning of the Universe, we can have confidence in the future that awaits the human venture.” Thomas Berry

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“I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me.” Richard Feynman

“I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.” Nikos Kazantzakis

“‎… If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches … Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

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“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.” Eckhart Tolle

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“Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.” Kurt Vonnegut