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It takes solitude, under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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High Tide in Tucson
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Contribution #3736
We are all participants in the marvelous.
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www.bigjoy.org
James Broughton
Contribution #3699
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
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Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
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Contribution #3683
Earth's crammed with heaven,
and every common bush afire with God.
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Aurora Leigh
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Contribution #3681
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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"Miracles"
Contribution #3668
All is play. God is just playing everywhere. All are bubbles-small bubbles going down and coming up to the surface.
The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.
The truth is in the mystery.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity.
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Elixir Magazine
"Towards a Culture of Peace"
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Contribution #3475
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each separate fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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“I'm with you in suggesting that we integrate our spirituality through symbols, myths, dreams and stories, instead of fixed certainties. For me the problem with fixed certainties is that they become so fixed they're no longer certain (if not certainly wrong). I also believe that spirituality is full of mystery and paradox, which gives me an opportunity to engage in play.”
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George Polley
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Contribution #3362
Universal does not mean ultimate.
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Contribution #3353
The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, “Does God exist?” It’s irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other’s explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses.
Part of reinventing the sacred is to heal...injuries that we hardly know we suffer. If we are members of a universe in which emergence and ceaseless creativity abound, if we take that creativity as a sense of God we can share, the resulting sense of the sacredness of all of life and the planet can help orient our lives beyond the consumerism and commodification the industrialized world now lives, heal the split between reason and faith, heal the split between science and the humanities, heal the want of spirituality, heal the wound derived from the false reductionist belief that we live in a world of fact without values, and help us jointly build a global ethic. These are what is at stake in finding a new scientific worldview that enables us to reinvent the sacred.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
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The Origin of Species
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Contribution #3195
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
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Timescape
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Contribution #3056
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man.
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My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its complex wonder, having the courage to live fully, to love wastefully and to be all that each of us can be and that it will express itself in our national life in more earth centered, justice enhancing and humane ways.
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary, and these can never be learned from books. We gain them from sitting high on a cliff side, gazing at the sea, lost in reverie and listening to the laughter of children.
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U.U. World
Page 35
The Ultimate Canvas
Volume: 17, #4
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Contribution #2850
"Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed." ~Rumi
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A Year With Rumi
by Coleman Barks
Page p. 270
Published by Harper
, San Francisco, CA
, 2006
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Contribution #2834
"And paradise will be brought near to the God-conscious, no longer will it be distant: This is what was promised for you - to everyone who would turn to God and keep God always in remembrance - who stood in awe of the Most Compassionate though unseen and brought a heart turned in devotion to God." [Qur'an: 50:31-33]
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The Light of Dawn: Daily Readings from the Holy Qur'an
by Selected and rendered by Camille Helminski
Page p. 148
Published by Shambhala
, Boston and London
, 2000
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Contribution #2827
"For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed."
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A Year With Rumi
by Coleman Barks, editor and translator
Page p. 367
Published by Harper
, San Francisco, CA
, 2006
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Contribution #2819
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Published in 1927
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Contribution #2779
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
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Gitanjali
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
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One can only be humbled by the richness of the animal and plant life on this place we call Earth – the diversity of life in the oceans – so evident here on the Great Barrier Reef. Hundreds of soft and hard corals, fish species and marine animals. I want to do my part to secure this wonderful world for future generations.
We live comfortably in the patches of reality where theory is tolerably successful, where reason is functional and predictability predominates. But any day an unexpected event may expel us from this Eden into the larger world of the incomprehensible.
It is then that our attitude will sustain or sink us. If we can revel in the mystery, keeping faith in our sights, then we will thrive and grow stronger.
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Josh Mitteldorf
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Daily Inspiration 5 October 2008"
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
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The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
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The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
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I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of reality, insofar as it is accessible to human reason. Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism.
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Letters to Solovine
Page Letter to Maurice Solovine, January 1, 1951
Published in 1993
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Contribution #2403
I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man....
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Interview with Peter A. Bucky, quoted in: The Private Albert Einstein
Contribution #2402
I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
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The World As I See It
Published in 1949
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Contribution #2401
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
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The world will never starve for a want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.
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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
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In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe. The more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
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But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.
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Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby. To suffer is not enough. We must also be in touch with the wonders of life. They are within us and all around us, everywhere, any time.
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Being Peace
by Arnold Kotler - Editor
Page 3
Published by Parallax Press
, Berkeley, CA, USA
, 1996
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Contribution #1615
If I had influence with the good fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
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Brilliance: Uncommon Voices from Uncommon Women
by Dan Zadra
Page 10
Published by Compendium Publishing
, Lynnwood, WA, USA
, 2005
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Contribution #1352
The deeper we look into nature the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret, and we are all united to all this life.
The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is.
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The World As I See It
Published in 1949
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Contribution #1122
When it is all over, I want to say: All my life I was a
bride married to amazement, I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my
arms.
Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.
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As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
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Charles Morgan
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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Aristotle
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Contribution #642
In that process of coming to know that which we name as divine, the God who is love is slowly transformed into the love that is God. Let me repeat that...We breathe love in, and we breathe love out. It is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. It is never exhausted, always expanding. When I try to describe this reality, words fail me; so I simply utter the name God. That name, however, is no longer for me the name of a being...
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A New Christianity for a New World
by John Shelby Spong
Page page 71
Published by Harper Collins
, San Francisco
, 2001
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Contribution #623
Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
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What does wonder look like in a person?
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