Swimme Quotes

#1. 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.
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Rob Brezsny

#2. In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome.
[In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

George Herbert

#3. Scarborough never really began to live until the summer of 1964 when the Beatles played the Futurist Theatre, and no one in the audience, least of all me, heard anything but the screaming.

David Hewson

#4. 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?

Brian Swimme

#5. Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.

Namkhai Norbu

#6. 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

#7. The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

Brian Swimme

#8. 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

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#9. Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

Brian Swimme

#10. Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

Brian Swimme

#11. When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

Brian Swimme

#12. Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

Narendra Modi

#13. If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

Brian Swimme

#14. The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human,

Brian Swimme

#15. Be bold. Be not fearful. Take actions. Action is real. Results requires interpretation and depends on perception.

Debasish Mridha

#16. The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

Brian Swimme

#17. I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

Brian Swimme

#18. The ends do not justify the means

Seth

#19. Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level.

Sonja Sohn

#20. The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity ... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

Brian Swimme

#21. Embrace your death ... Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

Brian Swimme

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I'd rather work all night and sleep all day ... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

Ida Lupino

#25. 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

#26. 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