You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
Quotations
God
Only by doing good can one benefit. Those who detach themselves from ‘bad’ and yearn for ‘good’, dedicate their lives to God…and to service of scholars shall be blessed.
-Vedas "Rig Veda"
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson
If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter…then manifestation in the divine in himself and the realisation of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aims possible to man on earth.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
To whom praise and blame are equal, who is silent, content with every fortune, home-renouncing, steadfast in mind, and worships Me, that person is dear to me.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 12.15-19"
God is as present as the air.
-Michael Holding
Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
-Robert H. Schuller
The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world, manifest in each of us, she can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.
-Anonymous "Star hawk"
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
-Voltaire
It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
-Anthony Liccione
