Cosmic Symbolism Quotes

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

The zodiac is a system a person can play with and see meaning in.

The world is a living image of God.

When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.