Quotes About Unity

We are projects of collective self-creation.

Even the most extreme individualists only become individuals through the care and support of their fellows;

We modern-day humans tend to exaggerate our differences. The results of such exaggeration are often catastrophic. Between war, slavery, imperialism and sheer day-to-day racist oppression, the last several centuries have seen so much human suffering justified by minor differences in human appearance that we can easily forget just how minor these differences really are.

That's what anarchism is for me: a community of purpose without a community of definition.

Each of us is a mere symbolon of a man, the result of bisection, like the flat fish, two out of one, and each of us is constantly searching for his corresponding symbolon. —Plato, The Symposium

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

Suddenly everything her grandfather had been saying about God made sense, as if the pieces were waiting for her to click into place. This beautiful mother's very life was constantly flowing into her baby. The baby didn't have to do anything to get it. It was already his. He possessed her very life. He didn't have to do anything to activate it. It was already active inside him. Apart from her, he had no life. But being joined to her, he had her life. All he had to do was be

species. In this way, we've changed the geometry of the planet. Before we came along, the world was discontinuous. Oceans, deserts, and mountain ranges formed impenetrable barriers, breaking Earth into separate regions where populations could evolve independently, and then be isolated or merged by continental drift and climate change. Now we've created pathways around all those borders, and to some degree the planet is one continuous habitat. Some

While ruthlessly aggressive toward other species, they are also unusually cooperative with their own kind. Ants from neighboring nests don't fight, as with other species,

What if one characteristic of really advanced intelligence is to become less and less distinguishable from natural phenomena?

I'd feel equaly out of place anywhere

None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

There is an old saying, "It is amazing what you can achieve if you are not wedded to who gets the credit." The

Chinese alchemy parallels European alchemy in postulating the change from watery lead (nigredo) to fiery heart (rubedo) and then to pure white (albedo) or gold (also known as the Philosopher's Stone).22 Understandably, in ancient Greece, a "similar archetypal concept of a perfect being is that of Platonic man, round on all sides and uniting within himself the two sexes."23

Guggenbühl-Craig, A. (1977) Marriage: Dead or Alive. Dallas: Spring Publications.

Of the energies of the universe, none is greater than harmony. Harmony means the regulation of yin and yang."29

The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil.

To kill the heart does not mean to let it dry and wither away, but it means that it has become undivided and gathered

To kill the heart does not mean to let it dry and wither away, but it means that it has become undivided and gathered into one.

Communion is depth. Singleness is height. Communion giveth warmth, singleness giveth us light.42

Jung summarized his work in typology and how it related to the Tao as follows: The book on types yielded the insight that every judgment made by an individual is conditioned by his [or her] personality type and that every point of view is necessarily relative. This raised the question of the unity which must compensate this diversity, and it led me directly to the Chinese concept of Tao.73

recorded by Chuang Tzu, but said by Lin Hui: My bond with the child Was the bond of Tao.25

I concur with Adolph Guggenbühl-Craig's thesis in Marriage: Dead or Alive4that a marriage, like a person, individuates (grows and develops) and actualizes itself.

The life of the spirit comes from the prior death of the mind. If people kill the mind, the original comes alive. Killing the mind does not mean quietism, it means undivided concentration.29