How The World Works Quotes

“Odd the way the world is. How you can have just about anything except what you want.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“It is interesting that we know how the world and the planetary systems work, but we don’t know how we think and why we are conscious.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Your Life is always a result of your thoughts.
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Events, occurrences, happenings, conditions, circumstances - all are created out of consciousness.
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"Fate" can be an acronym for "From All Thoughts Everywhere." In other words, the consciousness of the planet. The "collective consciousness".”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

“If I don't have aerial weapons I'll sell naval ones. If i didn't have battleships I'd sell tanks, I'd sell firearms, I'd sell long sword, I'd sell hatchets. You could rid the world of iron and I'd sell wooden clubs there is always a bigger stick.”
― Kasper Hekmatyar

“The yogi [...] sees the universe as the Lord created it: an essentially undifferentiated mass of light.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“The cosmos [is] a varied expression of one power - light, guided by divine intelligence.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“God encased the human soul succesively in three bodies -
[1.] The idea, or causal body. A causal-bodied being remains in the blissful realm of ideas.
[2.] The subtle astral body, seat of man's mental and emotional natures. An astral being works with his consciousness and feelings and a body made of lifetrons / prana.
[3.] the gross physical body. [This utilises the] physical senses.

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In wakeful state on earth a human being is conscious more or less of his three vehicles.

When he is sensuously intent on tasting, smelling, touching, listening or seeing, he is working principally through his physical body.

Visualizing or willing, he is working mainly through his astral body.

His causal being finds expression when man is thinking or diving deep in introspection or meditation; the cosmical thoughts of genius come to the man who habitually contacts his causal body.

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If he dreams, [man] remains in his astral body, effortlessly creating any object even as do the astral beings. [Such astral-level sleep is] not fully refreshing.

If man's sleep be deep and dreamless, for several hours, he is able to transfer his consciousness to the causal body; such deep sleep is revivifying.


pg416-431, Chapter 43, The resurrection of Sri Yukteswar”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“The cohesive force by which all three bodies [causal, astral and physical] are held together is desire. [...] The mere presence of a body signifies that its existence is made possible by unfulfilled desires.

pg425, Chapter 43, The resurrection of Sri Yukteswar”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi