Quotes About Unity

What is called for is not an integration of thought, or a kind of imposed unity, for any such imposed point of view would itself be merely another fragment. Rather, all our different ways of thinking are to be considered as different ways of looking at the one reality, each with some domain in which it is clear and adequate.

the subtle but crucial role of our general forms of thinking in sustaining fragmentation and in defeating our deepest urges toward wholeness or integrity.

science itself is demanding a new, non-fragmentary world view

violence doesn't stop merely by saying, 'we'll act based on love', because that can become just an idea that gets absorbed into the system.

We can refer to this one process as experience-knowledge (the hyphen indicating that these are two inseparable aspects of one whole movement).

Yet after that, everybody seemed to know what to do, because they understood each other so well. Then they could get together in smaller groups and do something or decide things.

Si concibe la totalidad compuesta por fragmentos independientes, así es como su mente tenderá a funcionar, pero si puede incluirlo en un todo de una manera coherente y armoniosa en una totalidad general que sea indivisa, ininterrumpida y sin fronteras, su mente tenderá a moverse de una manera semejante, y de ahí fluirá una acción ordenada dentro del todo.

Division is thus seen to be a convenient means of giving a more articulated and detailed description to this whole, rather than a fragmentation of what is.

William James who advocated a plurality of approaches that are dynamically related. In place of the monolithic unity of the paradigm, which is able to change only by being cracked and shattered in a revolution, would stand a form of unity in plurality.

if people are to cooperate (i.e., literally to "work together") they have to be able to create something in common, something that takes shape in their mutual discussions and actions, rather than something that is conveyed from one person who acts as an authority to the others, who act as passive instruments of this authority.

a proper world view, appropriate for its time, is generally one of the basic factors that is essential for harmony in the individual and in society as a whole.

the towering standing wave that composes the symphony of thought.

Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to those you despise. They are your fellow citizens. And together, we are not lesser than any greatest generation..

But Orpheus failed because, like all pakeha, he just couldn't keep his mind on one thing at a time.

one by Alasdair Gray – relayed by my colleague, author Ken McLeod[143] – that sums everything so-concisely and optimistically, but with a slightly science-fictional flair: "Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.

like when two or three human beings decided to marry and raise a family

There isn't one America anymore. If there ever had been.

My Dad used to say that if every man just took care of his own family, the world would be a much better place.

No tie is as strong as family, making it the hardest one to break.

We were destroying any sense of civility and decency the four of us still had. We were no longer brothers and sisters. We were members of a gang.

Being a woman alone can be helpful in making you more understanding of the problems women in different situations face. This can help you to learn to be more supportive of other women and can enable you to develop more meaningful relationships with them.

dissolve in the force of your loving, and you dissolve in the giving. 2For a book-length treatment of superior sexuality, s

you wouldn't really expect a girl to get married without her mother in attendance, would you?

La santidad de Dios y su amor se encuentran, siempre y en todos sitios, inseparables, porque pertenecen igualmente al mismo carácter absolutamente perfecto y glorioso.