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and moon are within you, and also the stars.
Origen
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If you wish to know the Divine, feel the wind
on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
Buddha
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Ye are all leaves of one tree and the fruits
of one branch.
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came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could
do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.
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The
news of the day may steer me toward seeing the world as
unfriendly
and chaotic, but the divisions I see reflected in the news
are misleading.
There are no true divisions between me and my fellow human
beings.
We are united by the spirit of the Divine which is within
each of us.
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All are caught in an inescapable
network of
mutuality, tied in a
single garment of destiny.
Whatever
affects one directly, affects all
indirectly.
I can never be what I
ought to be until you are what you
ought to be, and you can never
be what you ought to be until
I am what I ought to be.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This
overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual
and
the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In
mystic states
we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware
of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant
mystical
tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
William
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To
discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the
universe.
Peggy
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The fundamental delusion of humanity is
to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
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When
we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do
not feel
that particular person or thing is a part of us. When
we have established
conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast,
then everything there is part of us. And how can we be
afraid of ourselves?
Sri
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All
know that the drop merges into the ocean,
but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
Kabir |
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How
could the drops of water know themselves
as a river? Yet the river flows on.
Antoine
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We
cannot live only for ourselves.
A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow humans.
Herman
Melville |
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I
celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease. . .
observing a spear of summer grass.
Walt
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Because
all existence is founded upon the ever-present state
of union, everything already exists in a state of
tranquility.
However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our
assumption that there is a separation, that there is a
problem.
Suzuki
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When I
speak about attention, I mean literally, "How much
attention
can we pay to ourselves?"
As children, sometimes we cannot hold
our attention for more than a couple of seconds.
Over the years we
are able to attend to more and more.
Yet, we're seldom schooled
to hold life in respect, to enlarge our ability to love,
take care of,
and be respectfully connected with all things around us.
Brooke
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It
seems to me that there is in each of us a capacity to
comprehend
the impressions and emotions which have been experienced by
humankind from the beginning. This inherited capacity
is a sort of
sixth sense--a soul-sense which sees, hears, feels, all in
one.
Helen Keller |
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Joy is
the realization of oneness, the oneness of our soul
with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme love.
Rabindranath Tagore |
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No
one is an island, entire of itself; everyone is a piece of
Continent,
a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is
the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor or thy
friends or of thine own were; any person's death diminishes
me,
because I am involved in Humankind.
John Donne |
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When
you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a
European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you
see why
it is violent? Because you are separating yourself
from the rest of
humankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by
nationality,
by tradition, it breeds violence. So one who is seeking to
understand
violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to
any
political party or partial system; this person is concerned
with the total understanding of mankind.
J. Krishnamurti |
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Your
life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into
wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you,
there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see
reality—not as we expect it to be but as it is—is to see
that
unless we live for each other and in and through each other,
we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can
really
be life only where there really is, in just this sense,
love.
Frederick
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and
therefore also of humanity.
What though we have many
bodies? We have but one soul.
Mohandas Gandhi
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It is unity we are talking about, not
uniformity. What is needed
is to respect one another's points of view and not to impute
unworthy
motives to one another or to seek to impugn the integrity of
the other.
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree
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disagree and yet continue to love one another and to cherish
one another and seek the greater good of the other.
Desmond
Tutu
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