Separateness Quotes - Page 2

• Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

  Thomas Merton

  True Relationship, Illusion, Contemplative

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• The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Voice, Ego

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Mother, Father, Expression

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• Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Love, Heart, Mean

  Ken Keyes, Jr. (2010). “Three Prescriptions for Happiness”, p.81, Axios Press

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• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Respect, Skin Color

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

  Kent Nerburn

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Becoming One

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.55, New World Library

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• Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Relationship, Swings, Oneness

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• The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Success, Yoga, Self

  Rabindranath Tagore, Fakrul Alam, Radha Chakravarty (2011). “The Essential Tagore”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of oneness. I'm quite an erratic thinker, quite an adrenalized person, but through meditation, I found this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. My tendency towards selfishness, I felt that kind of exposed as a superficial and pointless perspective to have. I felt very relaxed, a sense of oneness. I felt love.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Ideas, Oneness

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• Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

  Esther Perel

  Two, Needs, Pillars

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

  Albert Einstein

  Tragedy, Illusion, Existence

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• This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its condition of oneness, just as the return ball is separated from the hand, and each is connected with the other one by an electric thread of light which measures the tension of that separateness.

  Walter Russell

  Light, Hands, Oneness

  Walter Russell (1947). “The Secret of Light”, p.140, Рипол Классик

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• The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing ... Only when our feet learn once again how to walk in a sacred manner, and our hearts hear the real music of creation, can we bring the world back into balance.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Real, Healing, Heart

  "Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, a Collection of Essays". Book by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2013.

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• The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

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  Ram Dass

  Beautiful, Heart, Unity

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• The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.

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  Ram Dass

  Kindness, Compassion, Roots

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• I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  People, Feelings, Degrees

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• The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Acceptance, Rejection, Support

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.373, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

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  Ram Dass

  Heart, Compassion, Suffering

  Ram Dass, Paul Gorman (2011). “How Can I Help?”, p.62, Knopf

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• When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Thinking, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.28, Penguin

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• Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Mean, Self

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• We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Peace, Home

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• The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our
  separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

  Erich Fromm

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Overcoming

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• The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Errors

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• Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

  Rollo May

  Love, Life, Funny Relationship

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May (p. 313), 1969.

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• Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

  R. D. Laing

  Essentials, Paradox, Aspect

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