Quotes About Unity

The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences...

Wise parents do not criticize each other in front of their children or their friends. Nor do they talk negatively about their children when others are present. That is disloyalty.

The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony.

Someday When we are wiser When the world's older When we have learned I pray Someday we may yet Live To live and let live Someday Life will be fairer Need will be rarer Greed will not pay Godspeed This bright millennium On its way Let it come Someday

The central statement of faith in Judaism is the Sh'ma, which reads: "Hear Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is One." Only in silence is it possible to hear.

WHAT WE CALL LOVE is actually a deep interweaving of beings. The emotion we feel is actually a marker that the other person or thing has become part of ourselves; we are no longer separate from the other. This explains why losing someone or something we love hurts so much. It is not just "as if" something has been torn from us. When we enter love, a part of ourselves merges with the other and when we lose love, a part of ourselves is torn away.

IF PEOPLE WOULD only be satisfied with the essentials and if they'd only try to improve everyone else's well-being and share in their common concerns, they'd conquer the world and have more than they ever wanted from it. —RABBI BAHYA IBN PAQUDA (11TH CENTURY)

ONE'S COMPASSION SHOULD extend to all creatures, and one should neither despise nor destroy them, for the wisdom above extends to all of creation—inanimate objects, plants, animals, and humans. —RABBI MOSHE CORDOVERO (1522–1570)

Being a servant of God means striving to align my will to that of the Master. I desire to unify my will with God's will within my own life and to delight in that unification. Rabbi Gamliel used to say: "Do His will as if it were your will that He may do your will as if it were His will.

THE SEISMOGRAPH HAS TAUGHT us that a tremor in any part of the world can be felt by a sufficiently sensitive instrument everywhere in the world. The same is true of a person's deeds. One should not think that his actions do not affect others. Everything one does in some way affects everyone else in the world. —RABBI YERUCHAM LEVOVITZ (1873–1936)

I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good for their country, come together to work for it. I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.

in so many areas of life, Nature had made it agreeable for man to do what was virtuous.

Simply put, reconciliation is the idea that things and people that are broken can be put back together.

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man.

A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.

To Aristotle, who said the antidote to fifty enemies was one friend.

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

We know you weren't in the house', he said, starting up again, cranking himself with the handle. They always say 'We', 'We', never 'I' 'I' - as if they feel braver and righter knowing there's a lot of them against only one.

Until the hands are truly "interlocked," such fingers will seem perverse. The difficulty is mental, not physical. Once the pianist has grasped the notion that he does not have two separate hands, but a single unit of ten digits, he has made an advance towards Liszt.

Until the hands are truly "interlocked," such fingerings will seem perverse. The difficulty is mental, not physical. Once the pianist has grasped the notion that he does not have two separate hands, but a single unit of ten digits, he has made an advance towards Liszt

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

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.