Quotes About Oneness

Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

Truth is one: (though) the wise call it by various names.

To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away.

Blessed are those who break off from separateness theirs is wild heaven.

In love, one and one are one.

W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78)

The point isn't to make yourself feel that you're a part of everything, but to stop for one minute insisting with every thought and feeling that you're not.

Nothing is separate. Everything is one thing.

Music is most magical when everyone can lose the burden of self and be put back together as a part of something bigger, or other. I think of it as egos blending, singer into musician into listener. Something like that feels right to me. Anyway, it's something worth aiming for.

As by knowing one tool of iron, dear one, We come to know all things made out of iron - That they differ only in name and form, While the stuff of which all are made is iron - So through spiritual wisdom, dear one, We come to know that all of life is one.

Somewhere along the way, we lost the experience of unity. We live our lives propping up the pathetic lie that we are different from everything else. This is a lie because the same awareness shines in the heart of all things. The lie is pathetic because it dooms us to a dry life of alienation.

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.

This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one.

To know God, you need only to renounce one thing—your sense of division from God. Otherwise, just stay as you were made, within your natural character.

only thing I'd said was that a supreme intelligence exists in the universe, and that it longs for union with us.

All men and all women are mostly the same, most of the time," she clarified. "Everybody knows that this is true." The other Hmong ladies all nodded in agreement.

One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine event,To which the whole creation moves.

Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one, and there is nothing above it by way of final condition.

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.

To be everywhere at once and to know everybody was, after all, but to slip the cables of the tiny, separate self, and experience the Whole. Hence the desire to be elsewhere and otherwise. Hence, too, the innate yearning to share experiences of all kinds with others.

Another way to say it: we are each the whole thing, and I merge with you when I wish.

Each one we are equal; without a star fating us

How awe-inspiring to see the beauty of another soul, to love him, and then to be permitted to share in his intimacy, actually to become one with him!

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~Aristotle