A selection of quotes on Space, Existence and the Cosmic Universe:
Image: Vandyke print 304, 2016. Vandyke Print digitally cropped.
"Modern man has used cause-and-effect as ancient man used the gods to give order to the Universe. This is not because it was the truest system, but because it was the most convenient."
Henri Poincaré, French Mathematician and Philosopher
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"Though I am unmanifest, fools
think that I have form,
unaware of my higher existence,
which is permanent and supreme.
Veiled in mystery and power,
I am not percieved by most men;
their deluded minds cannot see me,
the Unborn, the Changeless, the Undying."
Krishna to Arjuna, Bhagavad Gita (Translated by Stephen Mitchell)
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"The visions of Eternity, by reason of narrowed perceptions, are become weak visions of Time and Space."
William Blake, Mystic Artist and Philosopher
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" But today, as a result of a better survey of Time and Space, another idea is about to dawn in our mind. Namely, we begin to realize that, under the veil of human socialization, there may be the same basic and universal force operating which, since the dawn of the world, has constantly driven towards an ever-growing organization of
Matter.
We must no longer think of this force as a mere spatial motion of the Earth, but as the tightening, beyond ourselves and above our heads, of a sort of cosmic vortex, which, after generating each one of us individually, pushes further, through the building of collective units, on its steady course towards a continuous and simultaneous increase of complexity and consciousness."
"More primordial than any idea, beauty will manifest as the herald and generator of ideas."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Priest and Philosopher
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And for those who read down to the end, I share something I wrote myself of which came to me in moment.
5-19-16
Time to take over my world,
Formed in Space and then hurled,
Purpose annulled,
Senses dulled,
Forgotten in the whole
A part that's just a soul.