Quotes About Oneness

That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate onw life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Two waves in the ocean are talking to each other, the front wave tells the second wave he's frightened because he is about to shore-crash and cease to exist, but the second wave tells him that he is not, as he is part of the ocean

The second wave says, 'No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.' " I smile. Morrie closes his eyes again. "Part of the ocean," he says, "part of the ocean." I watch him breathe, in and out, in and out.

The second wave says, 'No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand—even in dreams. Just

Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another

That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.

to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

We forget that 'our' time is linked to others' times. We come from one. We return to one. That's how a connected universe makes sense.

That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Those fibers join a man to his surroundings;

They are the we of me.

This was how God had intended it to be. A precious gift. A sacred oneness. I love you. He said the words in the way he held her, his rock hard arms so gentle they felt like air around her. I love you. His hands told her-not merely touching her, but worshiping her.

With concentration on nonself—the reality that we do not have a separate self—we become aware that suffering is there not only in us but also in the other person.

There's no feeling of superiority, of inferiority, or even of equality.

About thirty years ago I was looking for an English word to describe our deep interconnection with everything else. I liked the word "togetherness," but I finally came up with the word "interbeing." The verb "to be" can be misleading, because we cannot be by ourselves, alone.

Dear friends, I have seen deeply that nothing can be by itself alone, that everything has to inter-be with everything else. I have seen that all beings are endowed with the nature of awakening.

No coming, no going no after, no before. I hold you close, I release you to be free I am in you And you are in me

When we look deeply into nonself, we see that the existence of every single thing is possible only because of the existence of everything else. We see that everything else is the cause and condition for its existence. We see that everything else is in it.

According to our narrow view of a truly existing self, life is just my body, my house, my spouse, my children, and my riches. But if we can extend beyond every limit we have created for ourselves, we will see that our life exists in everything, and that the deterioration of phenomena cannot touch that life, just as the arising and disappearing of the waves cannot influence the being of the water.

The second way of practice is to remove the discrimination that comes from dualistic thinking, that separates inside from outside; ourselves from others; the subject from the object; the spiritual from the material. With no more dualistic discrimination, we have an immense freedom that is nirv??a.

When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.