Unity Quotes - Page 27

• Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words.

  Deepak Chopra

  Christian, Buddhist, People

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• The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

  Michael Crichton

  Spiritual, Animal, Eden

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Enemy, Want, Nations

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Cancer, Hate, Objectivity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.68, Beacon Press

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• By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

  Brian Swimme

  Passion, Together, World

  "The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story". Book by Brian Swimme, 1984.

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• The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Real, Mean, Passion

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• Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.

  Dante Alighieri

  Oneness, Principles, Needs

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• The labyrinth literally reintroduces the experience of walking a clearly defined path. This reminds us that there is a path, a process that brings us to unity, to the center of our beings. In the simple act of walking, the soul finds solace and peace.

  Lauren Artress

  Simple, Soul, Labyrinth

  Lauren Artress (1996). “Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice”, p.74, Penguin

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• You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity.

  Jacque Fresco

  Years, People, Guy

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• Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Building Up, People, Tasks

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”

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• Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Jesus, Father, World

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• The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, Vanity, Order

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are..... And there can be no love where love does not find equality or is not busy creating equality. Nor is there any pleasure without equality. Practice equality in human society. Learn to love, esteem, consider all people like yourself. What happens to another, be it bad or good, pain or joy, ought to be as if it happened to you.

  Meister Eckhart

  Pain, Practice, Creating

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• The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis­turbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

  Aristotle

  Differences, Absence, Whole

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Evil, Separateness

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

  William P. Leahy

  Individual Differences, Challenges, Church

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• We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sweet, Heart, Islands

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• The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.

  Judith Herrin

  Christianity, Dynamism, Variety

  Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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• It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of
  creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation
  when we only restate a fact.

  Charles Darwin

  Ignorance, Thinking, Expression

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species”, p.357, Zillmann Publishing

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• Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas godly men, refusing to admit that these organizational structures are needed, live in states of chaos and disunity. The tragedy of this fact becomes evident when we realize that many of the successful systems of organization under which the godly men work and which the godly men refuse to accept are biblically based.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Godly, Successful, Men

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• The national unity government is a necessity in this country and I am happy to serve it. We have negotiated for months to create a government, but Belgium also went for a year without one.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Government, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

  Hermann Hesse

  Woods, All Things

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.103, Om Books International

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• We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Long Ago, Lines

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• Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind: they have convinced us that mass homogeneity is more essential for the betterment of society than is individual initiative, and they have adorned this dubious assumption with assurances that by leveling all distinctions between human beings, collective peace and unity will result as a matter of course, just as water runs downhill or the cart follows the ox.

  Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

  Running, Rights, Justice

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