Quotes About Unity

May all beings be free, May all beings knew the love and beauty of their own true nature, May all beings find happiness in service to all.

Today the cosmic wheel turns and opens fully to the West. The hours of light and dark are exactly equal on this first day of fall.

May there be peace on earth, May the hearts of all people be open to themselves and to each other, May all people awaken to the light of their own true nature, May all creation be blessed and be a blessing to All That Is.

May there be peace on earth and goodwill towards all.

May there be peace on earth, may the hearts of all beings be open, may all be reborn in forgiveness, may all creation reflect the Glory of God.

Seed Thought "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is an unqualified statement. It doesn't say love your good neighbors and your best friends. To love our neighbor is to extend the wish for enlightenment to everyone, including those we might hold in judgment or think of as our enemies.

Uniqueness and independence are clearly not synonyms in the mind of Benedict of Nursia. Uniqueness and responsibility go hand in hand in Benedictine spirituality. By all means I should be who I am and have what I need, but you have a claim on those gifts. Those gifts were given to me so much for your sake as for my own. The community does not exist to make me possible. Together we exist to make the gospel possible.

But it's a strange thing, the effect that everyone singing together has- the bond that grows between you, the feeling of unity. It gives you the strength to carry on, when things are hard. And it's hard to hate anyone when you're singing with them; hard to be angry...

Gordon and Lynn recognized within the Flock a sense of internal coordination that none of the individual personalities could see.

No one inside will ever disappear. We're all real. We all matter.

They sat so still that each of them might have been alone.

All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.

Why climb a mountain? Look! a mountain there. I don't climb mountain. Mountain climbs me. Mountain is myself. I climb on myself. There is no mountain nor myself. Something moves up and down in the air. Nanao Sakaki

Thomas Berry, in The Dream of the Earth,

Speaking in Creation's tongues, hearing Creation's voices, the boundary of our soul expands. Earth has many voices. Those who understand that Earth is a living being know this because they have translated themselves to the humble grasses and old trees. They know that Earth is a community that is constantly talking to itself; a communicating universe. And whether we know it or not, we are participating in the web of this community.

Swinging their hands between them, they raced (or race-limped in Jack's case) down the trail to catch up with their friends.

warriors looked at one another, curious. One

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

When we are truly awake and present in ourselves and to each other and the world around us, miracles abound.

We must stand together, realizing the complexity of our histories, both personal and social, choosing when we can tolerate each other's company and when we cannot. We must never pretend to be experts on each other's lives, never belittle the deep differences that do exist or pretend that we do not see the places of exposed pain.