Quotes About Unity

And Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

The drop of rain knows who and what it is as long as it remains a drop. When it falls back into the sea, its origin, it can no longer know.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

January 20, 2009, was also the first time a newly elected president used the occasion sometimes called a secular sermon to the nation to give voice to the diversity of religious life among its people. "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims," Obama said, "Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

This second step calls one to yield to that local part of the Body of Christ, and to dedicate oneself to that congregation and its work.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Never before in history had the world actually believed in the equality of man.

the group needs to readily accept the choices and the direction of the dominant members.

We must go from boxes to arrows. Tomorrow belongs to those who connect.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."  Ã¢â'¬â€œ John Muir I'm

Let living and love, be one.

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

The other political parties hurriedly dissolved themselves,

It is a race now whether the Bolsheviks double-cross the Americans, or the Americans the English – because they are certainly not very united – or whether the English double-cross both the others

Hesse's ultimate message about the unity of the cosmos and the importance of loving the world, not despising it, was censored out by his convictions in the other direction. Hermann Hesse's books were banned after Hitler took power.

each has the oddest notion that they have already met and indeed known each other since long ago. It is more a feeling of profound recognition, almost surprise, than anything else, one that brings with it a sense of relief, as if their hearts are simply saying to one another, "Oh, there you are. Where have you been? I've been looking all over for you for the longest time.

We discover that the richness of life isn't all created by people, events, and acquisitions, but by our ability to open up and fully be with whatever is occurring—present in heart, body, mind, and connecting fully with others and with life.

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

There is in fact coming and going, bending and breaking. One single bolt or screw holds the blades of a scissors together, into one tool that can cut paper or leather or steel or meat. If you take that screw or break that bolt, the scissors become two things. Two knives. Eyes can cut, too, back and forth. Eyes can turn outward or inward.

You are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither high church nor low church, Catholic nor Protestant, citizen nor alien, capitalist nor communist, gay nor straight, beautiful nor ugly, East nor West, theist nor atheist, Israel nor Palestine, American nor Iraqi, married nor divorced, uptown nor downtown, terrorist nor freedom fighter, for all are made one in Christ Jesus.

But the problem is that the fundamental structure of scapegoating is not broken in the acceptance of the latest "other." If the underlying scapegoat mechanism is not decommissioned, then new "others" will always arise to protect the group from its own internal conflicts. For

In order to destroy the scapegoat mechanism, a different strategy must be adopted. Instead of trying to create a community where there is no outsider, the real answer lies in understanding that there is a sense in which we are all outsiders. In concrete terms, this means that a community faces its own lack, rather than ignoring it and thus creating a scapegoat who must carry it.

If there is any true value in running as a sport, it is that it is a great leveler. Runners don't gear up, armoring ourselves like football players; we strip down to the minimum and empty our hands and become what we are at our most natural, and thus we are reduced to what we all have in common: legs, lungs, heart, and mind. We are all out there on the same course, heading the same way, whatever our speed, a brother/sisterhood of chafed thighs and aching feet.