Unity Quotes - Page 33

• From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and unity - a labor and an aspiration towards union. We seem to sense that - whether we conceive it as a divine Being or as a cosmic energy - the Spirit working upon and within all creation is shaping it into order, harmony, and beauty, uniting all beings (some willing but the majority as yet blind and rebellious) with each other through links of love, achieving - slowly and silently, but powerfully and irresistibly - the Supreme Synthesis.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Struggle, Views, Order

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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• But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Appreciate, Presidential, Patriotism

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• I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Flesh, Saws, Bones

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity.

  Carlos Barrios

  Spiritual, Heart, Practice

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• True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Struggle, Differences, Tolerance

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• Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Wish, Read Between The Lines, Demand

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Inspirational, Ocean, Heart

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• Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

  John Boyd Orr

  Civilization, Age, Empires

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• We have to distinguish between a man as he is in essence, and as he is in ego or personality. In essence, every person is perfect, fearless, and in a loving unity with the entire cosmos; there is no conflict within the person between head, heart, and stomach or between the person and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, karma accumulates, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity; man falls from essence into personality.

  Oscar Ichazo

  Karma, Fall, Heart

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• Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Christian, Doe, Division

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• You know what it takes to win. Just look at my fist. When I make a fist, it's strong and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength. We must become so close with the bonds of loyalty and sacrifice, so deep with the conviction of the sole purpose, that no one, no group, no thing, can ever tear us apart.

  Ara Parseghian

  Loyalty, Strong, Sacrifice

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• I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

  Jan Morris

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.

  Tertullian

  Father, Son, Numbers

  Tertullian, Aeterna Press (2016). “Tertullian Collection [2 Books]”, p.62, Aeterna Press

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• I will open an era of grand national unity.

  Park Geun-hye

  Eras, National Unity

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• Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example.

  Zhu Rongji

  Thinking, Order, President

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• We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.

  Bill McCartney

  Healing, Highways

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• The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Agreement, Missionary, Calm

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel.

  John Vockler

  Christian, Block, Real

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• Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Vision, Collaboration, Individual

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• When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?

  Annie Besant

  Support, Suffering, World

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• At the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh

  Henry B. Eyring

  Marriage, Mother, Father

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• Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Men, Giving

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• Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

  Annie Jump Cannon

  Teaching, Men, Allies

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• The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be achieved if we are defeated by a sense of helplessness. The crucial element is to ensure that any struggle against evil is rooted firmly in a consciousness of the unity of the human family, something only gained through the mastery of our own inner contradictions.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Struggle, Evil, Challenges

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• We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

  Walter Crane

  Art, Agreement, People

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