Quotes About Unity

This can be the value of our personal suffering. We can understand firsthand that we are all in the same boat and that the only thing that makes any sense is to care for one another.

We're all in this together, all so interconnected that we can't awaken without one another. We

Space permeates everything, every moment of our lives.

Shantideva said that since all sentient beings suffer from strong, conflicting emotions, and all sentient beings get what they don't want and can't hold on to what they do want, and all sentient beings have physical distress, why am I making such a big deal about just me? Since we're all in this together, why am I making such a big deal about myself?

Traditionally it's said that the cause of suffering is clinging to our narrow view. Another way to say the same thing is that resisting our complete unity with all of life, resisting the fact that we change and flow like the weather, that we have the same energy as all living things, resisting that is what's called ego.

We can use our lives, in other words, to wake up to the fact that we're not separate: the energy that causes us to live and be whole and awake and alive is just the energy that creates everything, and we're part of that. We can use our lives to connect with that, or we can use them to become resentful, alienated, resistant, angry, bitter. As always, it's up to us.

In joy and sorrow all are equal, Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself. —SHANTIDEVA

Even if we're alone, our yawns and farts communicate.

it's more daring and real not to shut anyone out of our hearts and not to make the other into an enemy.

si podemos mantener aunque sólo sea una relación incondicional con una persona, podemos tener una relación incondicional con el mundo.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

there is nobody on the planet, neither those whom we see as the oppressed nor those whom we see as the oppressor, who doesn't have what it takes to wake up.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it's like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections.

We are the body of Christ. We are the continuing incarnation of the Divine. Look around and see Jesus. We who believe and trust and love each other are the manifestation of God in this place, at this time.

That word 'well'—it's an old word, and it means the same as 'whole'.

The brokenness of his body (and we are his body) is healed in our love, in our common life—which is his love, his life, in us.

todos nós sabemos com África sabe se transformar naquela que cada um tem dentro de si.

Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers.

God does not want us to be independent (standing alone) or code-pendent (unable to stand without someone's help); He wants us to be interdependent, meaning we need one another standing shoulder to shoulder to engage the adversary.

is reality simply a dream we share?

In the end the natives would be so mixed and mingled with the new settlers that the term Saxon or Angle ceased to have any meaning. All would become English.

Water is a great leveller...On water all are at an equal level.

Is there not something more glorious about making music than making war?