Unity Quotes - Page 23

• ...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Rays, Study

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.21, Library of America

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

  Zhuangzi

  Life And Death, Body, Share

  5 Copy quote

• In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc...Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.

  Louis de Broglie

  Past, Reality, Space

  29 Copy quote

• The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

  Carl Jung

  Ideas, Migration, Facts

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Objects obey quantum laws- they spread in possibility following the equation discovered by Erwin Schodinger- but the equation is not codified within the objects. Likewise, appropriate non-linear equations govern the dynamical response of bodies that have gone through the conditioning of quantum memory, although this memory is not recorded in them. Whereas classical memory is recorded in objects like a tape, quantum memory is truly the analog of what the ancients call Akashic memory, memory written in Akasha, Emptiness- nowhere.

  Amit Goswami

  Memories, Law, Tape

  11 Copy quote

• The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Moon, Earth, Patterns

  15 Copy quote

• The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.

  Rudolf Steiner

  World, Phases, Matter

  5 Copy quote

• Today people live to work rather than work for a living. They have forgotten their true goal in life. Subsequently they have forgotten their dharma. There is no communication between hearts, there is no sharing. Having lost contact with other's hearts, we become totally isolated. But in truth we are not isolated islands, we are links that form one chain.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Communication, Heart, Islands

  "Patience Leads to Love". Conversation with Riitta Uosukainen, www.amritapuri.org. October 06, 2000.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Reality, Way, Kind

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Names, Together, Goes On

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Adjectives, Nouns

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Buddhist, Believe, Air

  12 Copy quote

• From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.

  Herman Melville

  Stars, Heart, Space

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.67

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith- and, indeed, our hope- the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Thinking, May, Might

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Choice of Gods”, p.101, Open Road Media

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sound, Pumps, Spheres

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2031, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, "Does God exist?" It's irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other's explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses.

  Norman Cota

  Powerful, Doe, Materialistic

  6 Copy quote

• There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Heart, Reality

  6 Copy quote

• I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Night, Agony, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.291, Library of Alexandria

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Infinite, Existence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4798, Manonmani Publishers

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

  Jack McDevitt

  Essentials, Boards, Culture

  Jack McDevitt (1995). “The Engines of God”, p.99, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

  Francisco Varela

  Organization, Machines, May

  "Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 137, 1980.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Education, Growth, Elements

  George Trumbull Ladd (1899). “Essays on the Higher Education”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All nations agree that ISAF and OEF need to work more closely together, and that when NATO takes over operations throughout the country that there must be unity of command.

  James Appathurai

  Country, Together, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Prayer, Heart, Blessing

  7 Copy quote

• Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Debate, Conversation, Radiant

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.73

  7 Copy quote

  Show source