Quotes About Unity

I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.

We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud, of Doree Miller, of Frederick Douglass, of Paul Robeson, of Joe Louis, of Marian Anderson

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

Family, nature and health all go together.

Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their sovereign states, not of the nation, and La Fayette was perhaps the only real American:

Woman has the same spiritual dignity as man. Both of them have the same God, the same Teacher, the same Church. They breathe, see, hear, know, hope and love in the same way. Beings who have the same life, grace and salvation are called … to the same manner of being. Clement of Alexandria Tutor,

Sacred Scripture does not set men and women in opposition to one another in respect to sex. Sex does not constitute any difference in the sight of God. Origen Homilies on Joshua,

Humanity has nothing so much in common with God as the ability to do good

The book of the cosmos (the world, St Augustine says, is a 'first Bible') and that of the Scriptures match each other, since they have the same author. Both of them find their full revelation in Christ who, after writing them, made them his body and his face. The incarnate Logos frees the speechless tongue of creation and unites it with the world as logos alogos

Certain people are annoyed that I believe in God. But I want people to know that God is present in everything, in the concert hall, in the ocean, on a mountain, even on the underground.

Lorsque le monde se mettra à jeter des fleurs et non plus des bombes, le combat de l'amour sera gagné.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; ?Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.

Eventually there will be a time when the pursuing self and the pursued mu are brought into oneness. It is then that mu becomes the self, and the self becomes mu. Both will then be smashed and transcended simultaneously.

show) with the character tan (single). That is to say, the character for zen means "to show singleness of mind.

When a number of people recite a sutra in one accord, they are told to recite it with their ears. It is good to recite the sutra in such a way that the voices of those sitting next to us enter our ears, and, passing through them, come out of our mouths by becoming our own voices. After the lecture, the testimonial teaching of the past Zen Master related to the temple or the lecturer, or Shiku Seigan Mon77 are recited by all present.

All beings are primarily Buddhas," can be called the primary statement of the essence of Buddhism. According to scholars of religion, religion means the completion of the individual as the Whole.

Talking, laughing, quarreling, and moving the limbs should all be integrated into the one and the same samadhi.

If we negate ourselves and completely plunge into the objective world around us, all oppositions cease. The phrase goes, "The holy man has no self; and, therefore, everything becomes the holy man." By making ourselves empty and plunging deep into the surrounding world to be integrated with things, the surrounding world will in turn become ourselves. We and the world thus will be one, and we will be masters everywhere.

We should remember that by being well integrated with any matter or thing, we will naturally come to be liberated from our attachment to them.

in the true sense of the word, "no-thought and no-thinking" means flowing steadily and endlessly in the pure experience of the oneness of self and other.

Further, you should see whether or not self and other—that is, self and strangers, self and family, self and society—are unified in the place called "here." In this place Self and object fuse and become one body in an experience known in Zen as "the boundless realm of time and space where not even the width of a hair separates self and other.

The meaning of the expression "with the Heavenly Principle as the master" is just the opposite. It means that we should abandon our self-centered wills, be free from personal opinions, be absorbed both physically and spiritually in whatever concerns us at the moment, and become completely one with things.