Quotes About Unity

All knitting is choreography.

Hand-dyers are never in competition with each other. Rather, we push each other to expand our worlds.

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

They walked together, side

You can only be free if I am free.

Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.

One day, when Mr. Lincoln was advocating binding up the wounds of the nation, forgiveness, and reconciliation, Thaddeus Stevens pounded the table and said, "Mr. Lincoln, I think enemies ought to be destroyed!" Mr. Lincoln quietly said, "Mr. Stevens, do I not destroy my enemy when I make him my friend?

He is not standing on the shore of eternity beckoning us to join him there; he is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life.

And solitude is not needing. Not needing leaves a person alone, all alone. Oh, needing doesn't isolate a person, things need things: it's enough to see a chick walking to see that its destiny will be what lack will make of it, its destiny is to join, like drops of mercury cling to other drops of mercury, even though, like all drops of mercury, it has a complete and rounded existence in itself.

And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was "becoming". Wasn't it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times?

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

Saudade é um pouco como fome. Só passa quando se come a presença. Mas às vezes a saudade é tão profunda que a presença é pouco: quer-se absorver a outra pessoa toda. Essa vontade de um ser o outro para uma unificação inteira é um dos sentimentos mais urgentes que se tem na vida.

Or had you no other means of capturing the grace of this creature except with a collar? Don't you realize that you destroy a rose if you crush it in your hand? I know that tone is unity which cannot be divided by words, I know that I am crushing a rose, but to shatter silence into words is one of my awkward ways of loving silence, & it is in this way that I have so often killed what I understand.

identity which is the first immanence

O mundo todo é ligeiramente chato, parece.O que importa na vida é estar junto de quem se gosta.

Christianity is not a philosophy; it is not a set of rules that one may follow on one's own. It is a life which can only be lived in community, in the Church that Christ Himself founded.

First of all, the doctrine of the Trinity means that nothing that exists, whether on earth or in heaven, can be conceived of as an individual, in and of itself.

doctrine of the Trinity means that there can be genuine diversity and even order among persons without diminishing their equality.

Happiness is singing together when day is through, and happiness is those who sing with you. Happiness is morning and evening, daytime and nighttime too...for happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you.

We have demonized the dark along with half of what is good within us, and half of the human race besides.

Any human being on the planet today can take off their shoes and stand in the dirt and instantly know everything there is to know.

When we realize that our lives are one with the great and eternal life of the universe, we are the Buddha. The purpose of Buddhism is to enable all people to come to this realization.

the religious models that had existed up until then did not adequately prepare us. Only through a process of radical self-empowerment—which Ikeda, expanding upon a term used by Toda, called Human Revolution—could human beings address issues that big. They couldn't be dealt with effectively by any one people, nation, or religion, but only by humanity as a whole.