Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

In each atom, in each corpuscle, is life. Life is what you worship as God ... and earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.

It's daylight, the sky is cloudy, and human beings believe that beyond the clouds lives an all-powerful God, guiding the fate of men. Meanwhile, look at your son, look at your feet, listen to the sounds around you: down here is the Mother, so much closer, bringing joy to children and energy to those who walk over her body. Why do people prefer to believe in something far away and forget what is there before their eyes, a true manifestation of the miracle?

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.

Truth is the right designation of God.

There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

Science brings men nearer to God.

The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.

All but God is changing day by day.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

We seem to invest so much time and belief that those things are stable in some way - something to build towards, or something to use to better understand where we come from. So often those expectations are just so out of line with how the universe works. I don't see it as a productive way of seeing the world, so, when I deal with that stuff formally - or when I try to allow it to inspire me - I'm open to it twisting itself up.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.