Quotes About Unity

We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we could truly love others is to love ourselves. The difference between self-love and love of others is very small, once we really understand.

When we sit we recognize the crucial, divine importance of absolutely everything that arises—every thought, every feeling, every breath, every unspeakable, unnameable impulse. But also we recognize the ultimate importance of the others—of the sky, of all the sounds inside and outside the room. As the mind becomes a little more quiet the sacredness of everything within and without becomes clear to us.

The actions, thoughts, and words of each of us are important. All of us together are making the world. So we have to ask ourselves: "How am I living? What kind of actions am I taking? Am I a force for good in the world or am I just another person doing nothing to help and therefore making things worse?

Spiritual awakening is exactly dropping the sense of one's narrow separateness; it is essentially and profoundly altruistic.

But the whole point of mind training is to promote, to the bottom of our hearts, down to our bones, even to the marrow, the understanding and the feeling that we are not alone in this sadly poignant situation. We are together in it with everyone else. And that makes it beautiful, and even joyful, no matter how hard it may get.

We were a single body,' Pisciotta said, 'bandits, police and Mafia, like the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.

The alternative to dualism is dialectics: that is to say, love

Man is distinguished from animals by having separated, ultimately into a state of mutual conflict, aspects of life (instincts) which in animals exist in some condition of undifferentiated unity or harmony

history of mankind consists in a departure from a condition of undifferentiated primal unity with himself and with nature,

But if the instinctual duality is Life and Death, our modification of Freud's ontology entails the hypothesis that Life and Death coexist in some undifferentiated unity at the animal level and that they could be reunified into some higher harmony in man

I started at the bottom and loved just one; and if you love one, you can love many; and if many, you can love all.

I always think that the essence of a good dinner- or breakfast-party is not the tablecloth, nor even the nature of the food, but the company. I think precisely the same concerning the Lord's Supper.

He wants us to understand that we are only branches which have changed trees. We never produced fruit without a tree! To

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.

The bride and groom stand beneath the Chuppa (bridal canopy), symbolizing their new home, and seven blessings are recited, a cup of wine again being shared. The couple are blessed, and the groom smashes a glass, recalling the destruction of Jerusalem even on his most joyful day.

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

In this perspective what I like or don't like disappears, because there's nothing left of me as a separate person: as a reader of literature I exist only as a representative of humanity as a whole. We

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.