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• It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Selfish, Reality, Men

  H.P. Blavatsky (2007). “The Key to Theosophy by H.P. Blavatsky”, p.126, Theosophy Trust Books

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• After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Powerful, Self

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Happiness, Success, Frustration

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• Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Wall, Integrity

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Oneness, Erotic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.34, Routledge

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• Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

  Bobby Jindal

  Nice, Ideas, Melting

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• We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peaceful, Cooperation, Illusion

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• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Sick

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• Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

  Rumi

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

  Judith Viorst

  Love Is, Isolation, Terror

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Evil, Unity, Overcoming

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2010). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.203, New World Library

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• We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

  Mark Tobey

  Agreement, Water, Ego

  Bahai lecture; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America", W.C. Seitz, 1983, pp. 66/67, 1951.

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• It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.

  Frederick Franck

  Fabric, Whole, Illusory

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 77, 1985.

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• There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

  Terence McKenna

  Technology, Understanding, Intellectual

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• In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.

  Harriet Lerner

  Long, Challenges, Balance

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

  Mason Cooley

  Guilty, Intimacy

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• Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Struggle, Love Is, Self

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

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  Ram Dass

  Illusion, Identification

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• Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

  Erich Fromm

  Soulmate, Integrity, Love You

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.31, Routledge

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• Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.

  Martin Laird

  Letting Go, Reality, Land

  Martin Laird (2006). “Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in physics are often called, for want of better terms, the centripetal and centrifugal forces. These are the forces of convergence and divergence, the one tending to concentration of powers and properties, and the other to their separateness or the independence of parts. Socialism and Individualism are to appearance conflicting, though in reality complemental, in their relations to the societary movement.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Reality, Two, Race

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• Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

  Annie Gottlieb

  Love, Respect, Gratitude

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• There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Memories, Independent

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• The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

  Alan Watts

  Rejection, Ego, Identity

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Heart, Compassion

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