Oneness Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Unions, Assumption, Separation

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• The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Goal, Religion, Essentials

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• Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Heart, Long

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, HarperCollins

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• Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Today, Art Of Loving

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Believe, Recovery

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the oneness of being. Using the process of conscious evolution we begin to recognise our true underlying identity, for once we have glimpsed the existence of this realm, we then begin to reveal what it is . . . . our true natural state.

  Jim Harrison

  Men, Doors, Identity

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• When there's nothing but humility, there's nothing but spiritual oneness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Humility, Buddhism

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

  Sengcan

  Peace, Errors, Disappear

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• The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Ideas, Accomplishment

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.12, New World Library

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• Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Physics, Quantum, Universe

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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 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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• I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

  Dick Gregory

  Mother, Father, Pope

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• ...oneness is the secret to everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Secret, Awareness

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• As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brother, Mean, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.68, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Class, People

  "A Martin Luther King Treasury".

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