Quotes About Unity

Aussies and Enzees and black fellows and marys and Malays and Tamil and name it.

It's not me, it's us. If anything happens to us, I want it to be the same thing. All right, he said seriously. From now on, we stick together. I'll handcuff us together, if you'd rather. You won't need to. I'm going to hang on.

There is a universal sense in humans that there is unity and cohesion at the heart of life, and that it is possible for us to be consciously aware of it. So far as I can discover, it is this awareness of the primordial and essential unity of the human psyche that most religions and philosophies have referred to as enlightenment.

When a marriage begins the partners are like two discrete circles overlapping a little. The division between the two is great and each has specific tasks. As the marriage partners grow older, each learns a bit of the other's genius, and finally the two circles overlap more and more.

I must state again: Nothing exists in our human dimension without its opposite close by.

It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is a mandorla.

Romantic love has always been inextricably tied to spiritual aspiration.

Contribute less to the general darkness of the world and do not add to the collective shadow that fuels war and strife.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody, and I will join it at once.

Life is one, but consciousness is divided. It is the stress of the divided consciousness that every visionary is seeking to deal with.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

Consciousness is not a given, or a fact. Our mode of consciousness seems historically to have been determined by neurological (unconscious) habits. When we become aware of this, and struggle against the inertia of habit, consciousness continually mutates, becomes less particle-like and fixed, spreads like a flowing wave. It can move between the poles of pure in-DIVIDE-ualism and pure in-UNITE-ualism, and between many other poles, and can become increasingly creative and self-chosen.

Of course, if consciousness consisted of nothing but this undifferentiated tapioca of timeless, spaceless software, we would have no individuality, no center, no Self.

We tend to separate subjects or areas of knowledge in our heads, whereas in Universe everything is synergetically (holistically) related. In this case, we have separated geometry from evolution, if we are blocked, and that is why we cannot see a rather obvious answer.

To Buddhist Tibet, this is the unity of yab and yum; to Taoist China, the unity of yin and yang. The Occident perennially seeks to repress this thought, and perennially is haunted by half-awareness of it.

Indeed, the East which accepts the unity of good and evil, yin and yang, with such equanimity, has never forgotten that if the evil is omnipresent, why, then, so must be the good.

I put my arms around her and closed my eyes and put my cheek against the top of her head and stood for a long time without speaking while my soul melted into her. I knew we weren't the same person. I knew that it was good that we weren't. I knew separateness made love possible. But there were moments, like this one, of crystalline stillness, when it felt as if we really could merge like two oceans at the bottom of the world.

Susan said, Ã¢â'¬Å"Have you given any thought to how we should spend Christmas?" "Only that we should be together." I glanced over at the softly snoring Pearl. "With Pearl, of course. Hawk, too. Maybe

It's as natural as anyone else.

God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear, To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here.

Nor yours nor mine, nor slave nor free!

And what proportion love should hold with power In his right constitution: love preceding Power—with much power always much more love;

all's love, yet all's law.