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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

All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing
that is not interconnected with everything else.  For things are interdependent,
and they combine to form this universal order.  There is only one universe made up
of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and
one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one--if, as we
believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.

Marcus Aurelius

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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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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 James

To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe.

Peggy Jenkins

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The fundamental delusion of humanity is
to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Yatsutani Roshi

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 Chinmoy

Kabir

How could the drops of water know themselves
as a river?  Yet the river flows on.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

We cannot live only for ourselves.
A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow humans.

Herman Melville

Walt Whitman

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 Roshi

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 Medicine Eagle

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

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