Quotes About Unity

Each of us is an individual manifestation of the collective world-soul … we are also and paradoxically contained by the world-soul, like droplets in the ocean.

The ego breaks free of the soul, its matrix, in order to reflect soul, to make its potential actual, and eventually to be reunited with the realized soul to form the totality of the self.

There are many other worlds - but they are all in this one.

As part of the Soul of the World we are part of a cosmic dance of which it is meaningless to ask the purpose and meaning - because it is all purpose and meaning.

Distinctions between Virginians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

I am not a Virginian, but an American.

Let us trust God and our better judgment to set us right hereafter. United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

Inasmuch as the history of salvation is a unified reality—stretching from the far reaches of biblical history through the life of God's People in both testaments, and extending even to the event of the Lord's Second Coming—the Church has consistently believed, from the time of the Apostles, that the Old Testament Scriptures continue to function as our "instructor unto Christ" (Gal. 3:24).

Recall that improv is about accomplishing a shared goal. This requires flow, working together, and accepting what other people bring to the table regardless of what it is. That's the essence of "Yes, AND…" and the opposite of "Yes, BUT…

By practicing compassion, you destroy all those artificial barriers and you truly understand that we all bleed red.

One of the most practical ways you can do this is to simply look at people as blood relatives. Just as you would care about a little brother and a little sister, develop a way of caring for other people like they're members of your family.

Paradox reconciles all contradictions.

It seems at times that strife can no more be separated from monotheism than stripes from a tiger.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

If we don't trust one another, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict.

No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault.

teamwork is not a virtue. It is a choice—and a strategic one.

executives must put the needs of the higher team ahead of the needs of their departments.

The single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health.

I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us. . . . I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.