Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe, whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth, kinetic, elemental; we, the earth, air, water and fire-source of nearly fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling.

Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.

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

We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.

The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.

My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.

I think every being in the universe is connected somehow.

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.