You didn't come

You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. 

You are not a stranger here.

~Alan Watts

There is

There is but one temple in the universe,
and that is the body of man.

~Novalis

We Are Stardust

"In a sense, human flesh is made of stardust… Every atom in the human body, excluding only the primordial hydrogen atoms, was fashioned in stars that formed, grew old and exploded most violently before the Sun and the Earth came into being. The explosions scattered the heavy elements as a fine dust through space. By the time it made the Sun, the primordial gas of the Milky Way was sufficiently enriched with heavier elements for rocky planets like the Earth to form. And from the rocks atoms escaped for eventual incorporation in living things: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur for all living tissue; calcium for bones and teeth; sodium and potassium for the workings of nerves and brains; the iron colouring blood red… and so on. No other conclusion of modern research testifies more clearly to mankind’s intimate connections with the universe at large and with the cosmic forces at work among the stars."

- Nigel Calder, "The Key to the Universe," BBC, 1977

The universe

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

~Kurt Vonnegut

Not only is

"Not only is the universe stranger than we suppose, its stranger than we CAN suppose!"

~Terence McKenna

Eternity

"Eternity is not endless duration but transcendence into the timeless."

--Deepak Chopra

Force

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

~Kabbalah

We do not

We do not "come into" into this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated "egos" inside bags of skin.

~Alan Watts

The style of God

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

~Alan Watts

Things are as they are

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

~Alan Watts

You and I

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

~Alan Watts

You are

You are that vast thing that you see far,
far off with great telescopes.

~Alan Watts

There are many

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats."

--Anonymous

We merely lease space

We merely lease space in the universe to accommodate the existence of our eternity in its various forms.

~David Bolen

There is only one corner

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

~Aldous Leonard Huxley

Truth can be found

"Truth can be found anywhere. We are part of the universe, as a Whole. But each of our viewpoints is that of a distinct, dynamic space-time coordinate. Imagination is the memory of that connection."

~Redshift

Essence

Essesnce, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole. Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The surest sign

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

~Bill Watterson

Under and back of

Under, and back of, the Universe of Time Space and Change, is ever to be found the Substantial Reality - The Fundamental Truth.

~The Kybalion

The ALL is

THE ALL is MIND;
The Universe is Mental.

~The Kybalion.