Quotes About Oneness

I recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly

Whether it's Mt. Sinai, a pasture, a library, the creek down the road, a liveness, or whatever you want to call it, the song is above us, around us, within us. We transcend the incessant and wearying yammer of bullshit. Transcendence means you go from judgement, separation from life in yourself, to feeling at one-ish with the universe. We hook into something bigger than we are - truer than the self-serving stories we make up about life and ourselves.

Sometimes you run into someone, regardless of age or sex, whom you know absolutely to be an independently operating part of the Whole that goes on all the time inside yourself, and the eye-motes go click and you hear the tribal tones of voice resonate, and there it is - you recognize them.

Transcendence means you go from judgment, separation from life and yourself, to feeling at one-ish with the universe. We hook into something bigger than we are, truer than the self-serving stories we make up about life and ourselves.

We religious types, even those who detest organized religion, pray for deeper faith and a greater sense of oneness with God.

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.

let's part equals, as we were in every bed, pure equals of the earth

There is no reason for a feeling of separation from anything or anyone, because we have been it all and done it all. How then can we feel self-righteous or removed from anyone or any action? Ther is no spot on this earth where we have not laughed, cried, been born and died. So in some sense, every single place we go is home. Everyone we meet we know. Everything that is done we are capable of.

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

This mirroring quality, whereby we "reteach a thing its loveliness," is one of the greatest attributes of metta. The power of metta enables us to look at people and affirm the rightness of their wish to be happy; it affirms our oneness with them. The power of love reflects both to ourselves and others the manifold possibilities available in each moment.

Looking at people and communicating that they can be loved, and that they can love in return, is giving them a tremendous gift. It is also a gift to ourselves. We see that we are one with the fabric of life. This is the power of metta: to teach ourselves and our world this inherent loveliness.

Compassion is born out of lovingkindness. It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are.

There's no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

Ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti: the Truth is One but sages call It by different names.

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

My Life Is Merged And My Spirit Has Merged With Somebody Else.

Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life.

The problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology, a way of looking at all of life that says that everything is separate from everything else.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream.

I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain.