Quotes About Unity

Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.

The purpose of conflict is to create.

The ability to be tough-minded remains useful; but by now, the fact that we are all in trouble in terms of both nature and culture can only be denied by those who become overly conservative and blindly reactionary. The more tender-hearted imagination that suggests we are all in this together and that there must be an underlying unity in life may be the only way to survive.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet." ? Maya Angelou Quote

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.

A Muslim just follows Allah. Sunni-Shiah? That's farga, the groups—Allah discourages this in the Quran, you know, never ever form the groups.

Dr. N: How do you manage to hold each other with no bodies? S: (with a sigh of exasperation at me) We envelop each other in light, of course. Dr. N: Tell me what that is like for spirits? S: Like being wrapped in a bright-light blanket of love.

We bear responsibility in the evolution of a higher consciousness for ourselves and others in life. Thus, our journey is a collective one.

If our soul reflects a small portion of the oversoul we call God, then our guides provide the mirror by which we are able to see ourselves connected to this creator.

Intercourse is the organic expression of two psyches, not a mechanical plugging in.

cannot associate with one another without creating a moral relationship.

If God meant woman to rule over man, He would have taken her out of Adam's head. Had He designed her to be his slave, He would have taken her out of his feet. But God took woman out of man's side, for He made her to be a helpmate and an equal to him. —Augustine

I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.

So proud to be joining the best team in the world.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

We all cast our own shadows and chose where they fall, and the lives of men and women and otters and dogs and whales are linked forever across the reaches of time. We distance ourselves from them with our hunger for flesh, or our carelessness, or our cruelty. But what of the forces that bind us together?

Indiana and Illinois, the two states conjoined like Siamese twins.

One gets the impression that when this house is full there's probably nothing here but love and a hell of a racket.

You could travel mile after empty mile seeing nobody, nothing—just the rugged Meseta—and then happen upon an ancient village of a hundred homes, all conjoined and crowded together, enjambed and encircling a church, a castle, each village with its Franco-era frontón, linked, for better or worse, in prayer, in drink, in song. I

Take your hallowed halls of Congress or the littered floor of the Stock Exchange, America is built on its pancake houses!

No one in my family questions my desire, however inchoate or ineffable, because it's partly their desire too: this need to be self-sufficient and free at all costs.

Talk of you or me,' he told her, 'but never of 'us.