Quotes About Unity

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

I'm interested in knowing the secrets that connect human beings. At the very deepest level, all our secrets are the same.

Bede invented the idea of England, or at least the idea of the English as a single people.

The you must be there for the I to find itself. Trust in you gives me trust in myself. In the encounter between the you and the I, faith is born. I am so truly I because I have faith in you. Only the I that comes about through faith can have faith.

They heard Rose Pastor Stokes quote Marx: "Workers, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains—and you have the world to gain.

Without love, there can be no true marriage; with love, there can be nothing else.

They didn't agree on everything. They didn't share all the same opinions. In fact, there was enormous scope for disagreement, argument, even quarrels. But where it mattered - where the wellsprings of their personalities rose and gave meaning to their lives - they were the same.

A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.

What's conquered by the sword is owned only so long as the sword stays sharp. What's brought together in amity, in recognition of common needs and purpose—of common enemies—has the strength to stand even after swords are no longer required.

We'll remember we're Marines

Stupidity and bigotry are their own worst enemies

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

The Cayce Readings spoke of God as a universal loving intelligence that does not discriminate against anyone—nor should we: "More wars, more bloodshed have been shed over the racial and religious differences than over any other problem. These, too, must go the way of all others; and man must learn . . . whether they be called of this or that sect or schism or ism or cult, the Lord is ONE."20

In this situation, the perception of reality is unitary, without ego and with a lack of any duality.

Only when the brain-mind system is free from interpretations, do the neuronal field and the pre-space structure become identical. In this situation, the perception of reality is unitary, without ego and with a lack of any duality. In this situation, pure consciousness and a feeling of an all-embracing unity and luminosity is [sic] perceived. All the systems that spiritual leaders have developed . . . have had the goal of arriving at this direct perception of the pure pre-space structure.

The distance had been evaporated by humor

Here they were, a group as diverse as one could possibly bring together. Jew, Samaritan, Roman, Greek – all united because of one who had come from God and returned to God only a few short years ago. Surely here was living proof that the eternal truths brought to life during Jesus' time on earth meant transformation was not only possible, it was real.

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

We cherish individual liberty and diversity, but we also see the value in common pursuits.

Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.--Odd Thomas

I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them.