Reddit mentions of My View of the World

None of them. Its a modern quote from carl sagan or someone. Its also ambiguous. Without clarification its not clear what it even means, or even if its an attempt to say anything more than that people's parts come from the universe. Most people who repeat it don't even mean very much by it.

If you want to know what ones believe something like that more literally, one example might be hinduism. It holds that god is everything that exists, and that individual people in some sense are an illusion generated by it dividing its mind into seemingly distinct entities. And so part of enlightenment can be identification with the whole.

Another religous example s jewish kabbalah. From god's perspective only god exists. And god may not even be an entity so to speak, at least not one we can understand an an entity. Its an abstract infinite essence that at one space contracted and allowed part of it to generate into the universe. From its perspective, people are part of it even though from their own perspective they are distinct.

Obviously both of those imply a supernatural god, not just the universe. If you want a philosophy idea that means something like this without needing anything suernatural, it is referred to as open individualism. the idea that the main facts of identity identity exist not on the human level, but on the universal level, and individual people develop out of this, divided not by strict barriers but just by distance, and psychological constructs seeing them as distinct. Its not well known, despite becoming seen as more mainstream lately, and even big historical figures like schopenhauer and schrodinger being big into it. Schrodinger's book is a good intro to the idea, though its more of an explanation than an argument. There's a few arguments, but a more complicated textbook would have more in it.

In Erwin Shrodinger's own book (titled "My View of the World"), Erwin Schrödinger elaborates more on the influence of Vedanta in Chapter 4. By the way, the book can be found on Amazon : http://www.amazon.com/My-View-World-Erwin-Schrodinger/dp/0918024307.

Perhaps reading it might help.