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The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmology #cosmos #hindu #vedantism #vedas

It's Up to You To Get Your Dreams and Goals Moving ↗

— Brenda Johnson Padgitt

#goals #moving #you #dreams

Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#heaven #dreams

I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them. ↗

— Patricia Mulcahy

#ailments #infirmities #positive-attitude #positive-thinking #survival

És o meu sopro, a minha vida, o meu coração ↗

— Anne Bishop

#dreams

It takes an enormous amount of work to complete a novel, and each of the students who completed the course has accomplished something many people only dream about. ↗

— Daniel Schwabauer

#dreams

¿Cuál es la diferencia que existe entre yo y estas pequeñas y humildes criaturas? La araña teje su tela, no puede hacer otra cosa. Yo tejo mi conciencia, esta charlatana compulsiva, esta voz vaga y errabunda que pronto enmudecerá. Pero todo es un sueño. La realidad es demasiado dura. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#el-sueño-de-bruno #español #sueños #vida-y-muerte #dreams

Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#dreams

It is easier to hold on to a dream than it is to let it go. ↗

— Tanja Kobasic

#faith #inspirational #positive-thoughts #wishes #dreams

Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in. ↗

— Hans Selye

#believe-in-yourself #believer #dreams