Oneness Quotes

• People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Cutting, Reality, Break Through

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.90, Buddhist Publication Society

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• A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

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• Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Reality, Web Of Life

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

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• Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Life, Heart

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• Unity does not mean sameness. It means oneness of purpose.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Mean, Unity, Doe

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• At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves and there is the recognition of oneness, of shared consciousness. That recognition is love. Sensing the formless essence in another and recognizing it as one with your own essence - that's what love is. All this is an intrinsic part of the awakened consciousness and the revelation of the spiritual dimension of life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Heart, Love Is

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Essence

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• You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Kindness, Realization

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• The first peace, which is the most important,
  is that which comes within the souls of people
  when they realize their relationship,
  their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
  and when they realize that at the center of the universe
  dwells the Great Spirit,
  and that this center is really everywhere,
  it is within each of us.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wisdom

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux". Book by Black Elk and Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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• We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different.

  Dalai Lama

  Focus, Different, Realizing

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love Is, World, Recognition

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.50, Penguin

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• Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.

  Laozi

  Perception, Awareness, Great Teacher

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Self

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Unions, Matter

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky

  Anwar Fazal

  Ocean, Air, Sky

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• We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the sense of separativity. It is always judging and doubting the reality in others. This is the human mind, the ordinary physical mind, the earth-bound mind. But we also have the aspiring heart, the loving heart. This loving heart is free from insecurity, for it has already established its oneness with the rest of the world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Reality, Two

  "And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting".

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• From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

  Heraclitus

  Philosophy, Unity

  "Fragments (Fragment 10)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Believe, Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence”

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• When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Tree, Looks, Levels

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.5, New World Library

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• Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves.

  Sengcan

  Peace, Errors, Disappear

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• I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion to achieve a 'wholeness' or 'oneness,' the experiencing of which should be revelatory - both for the artist and the spectator - something akin to the experience of enlightenment in terms of religion.

  Douglas Portway

  Art, Believe, Opposites

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• A miracle is nothing more nor less than this One who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the allpervading Wisdom and Power, thus makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Knowledge, True Identity, Law

  "In Tune with the Infinite".

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• Only one flagFlies above all the rest:The flag of universal oneness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Flags, Universal

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• All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Differences, Secret Love

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.136, New World Library

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