I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.
If everything is the same, nothing is special.
I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.
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