Top 30 Brian Swimme Quotes
#1. Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.
Brian Swimme
#2. Fair warning, baby. I'm in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn't play fair or nice.--Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson
Naima Simone
#3. Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life.
Brian Swimme
#4. I love football. I played it into two years of college.
Peter Landesman
#5. All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
Brian Swimme
#7. Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
Orson F. Whitney
#8. A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.
Brian Swimme
#9. Embrace your death ... Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
Brian Swimme
#10. The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity ... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
Brian Swimme
#11. I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
Brian Swimme
#12. The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.
Brian Swimme
#13. Just as the brain has its own way of operating, the ears another, the eyes yet another, and the body, fingers and toes yet another means, our intuition can be further divided into separate skills.
Catherine Carrigan
#14. The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sun's energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer.
Brian Swimme
Rob Brezsny
#15. The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human,
Brian Swimme
#16. I listen to everything: hip hop, R&B, alternative, pop. I love JCole, so I'm always listening to him. Kendrick and Drake.
Dexter Darden
#17. As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
Jorge Ramos
#18. If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.
Brian Swimme
#19. We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.
John Green
#20. His smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema with starlight, pure and bright...his touch hummed in my bones like an aria -- a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise.
Roshani Chokshi
#21. When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.
Brian Swimme
#22. Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
Brian Swimme
#23. Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!
Brian Swimme
#24. The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
Storm Jameson
#25. That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity
Brian Swimme
#26. It wasn't sexy," he said.
"It was a little sexy," Simon said ...
"It wasn't," said Alec.
"I had some feelings," said Simon.
Cassandra Clare
#27. Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a 'healing' cures our illness or lifts our burden. But sometimes we are 'healed' by being given strength or understanding or patience to bear the burdens placed upon us.
Dallin H. Oaks
#28. The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!
Brian Swimme
#29. This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.
Brian Swimme
#30. The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all into its comprehensive fullness. Who can learn what this means and remain calm?
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