In a highly detailed article released in the Universal Pantheist Society’s (UPS) Pantheist Vision Winter Edition newsletter, Harold Wood the founder of the organization revealed why he controversially chose to make the UPS America’s first pantheist “church” in 1975. Full article below: NOTE: This article appears in the Winter 2018 printed edition of Pantheist Vision,more »
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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is, and why it exists at all.
Stephen Hawking
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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.
Carl Sagan
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end.
Nikola Tesla
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Think of yourself not only as a drop in an ocean, but also as an ocean in a drop.
Rumi
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
Emily Dickinson
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The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.
Baruch Spinoza
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But I’ll tell you what hermits realize: If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Alan Watts
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I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
Albert Einstein
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