Edgar Mitchell Quotes

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge of the universe, but we're going to land right on you: in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. My goal is to have people know that they are participants in this great unfolding cosmic story.

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

It's all about sensitivity. If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life.

People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.

I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that Life, which is the culmination of all life, then he is ipso facto the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, because there is no distinction there.

At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.

Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.