There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity.
Where do think you are right now? A room - a city - a country? This may be true, but is it the whole truth?
If you look close enough you can't tell where my nose ends and space begins.
How am I not myself?
Vivian Jaffe: Have you ever transcended space and time?
Albert Markovski: Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about.
It is inevitable to be drawn back into human drama.
We'd all be heroes if we quit using petroleum, though.
Albert Markovski: The interconnection thing is definitely for real.
Tommy Corn: It is! I didn't think it wasn't! It is!
Albert Markovski: I know, I can't believe it, it's so fantastic!
Tommy Corn: It's amazing!
Albert Markovski: I know.
Tommy Corn: But it's also nothing special.
How come we only ask ourselves the really big questions when something bad happens?
Mrs. Hooten: Albert, what brought you to the philosophical club?
Albert Markovski: You mean the existential detectives?
Mr. Hooten: Sounds like a support group.
Cricket: Why can't he use the church?
Mrs. Hooten: Sometimes, people have additional questions to be answered.
Cricket: Like what?
Albert Markovski: Well, um, for instance: if the forms of this world die, which is more real, the me that dies or the me that's infinite? Can I trust my habitual mind, or do I need to learn to look beneath those things?
When you get the blanket thing, you can relax, because everything you could ever want or be, you already have and are.
Dawn Campbell: There's glass between us. You can't deal with my infinite nature can you?
Brad Stand: That is so not true. Wait, what does that even mean?
Cricket: Jesus is never mad at us if we live with Him in our hearts!
Tommy Corn: I hate to break it to you, but He is - He most definitely is.
The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
It's true that as you break things down, if you go far enough, things are absolutely different from what you would think they are.
Bernard Jaffe: Why is it when the so-called average Joe goes into a museum they are put off by abstract painting?
Professor Rudnick: People get upset when they are asked to do things they are not used to doing. In the same way your body complains if you are asked to stretch it in ways you haven't stretched it before. We become creatures of habit.
Like a dialysis machine to keep us alive in this horrible hell we call earth that we seem to be so proud of has evolved from the dinosaurs to our 'higher' species when in fact, as with the dinosaurs, it has always been a wretched carnival of violence. consumption, suffering and survival. Shall we talk about war? Children losing limbs or eyes? Don't feel like it? I didn't think so. Why would you? It is an unbearable drag, all of it. How about your boring job?
Now on the other, slightly more optimistic hand, if we are not MORE important than anything in the cosmos, we are not LESS important than anything in the cosmos. We are as representative of the cosmos as anything else that is here... You could say, "I'm as important as a rock." So what? ...Well, here's what: the good news is that if we simply stop all this agitating self drama and thinking and measuring and reacting - if we just stop and ACCEPT that we are like a rock or a sun, then we can just BE, as a rock is just a rock, a sun is just a sun. This gives the possibility of some greater freedom from our carnival of self importance and suffering.
Your mind is part of nature.
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