Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
As soon as you make your wish, your inner mechanisms begin amplifying and transmitting. The universe is vibrating with that wish and making it stronger.
We want something desperately and we try to force the universe to give it up before it is ready. We want everything now. That is the devouring self.
I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.
The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
This is the universe. Big, isn't it?
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.