"It might appear that there are a thousand things to do, but in fact there is never more than one."
-- Byron Katie
"Talk as much philosophy as you please, worship as many gods as you like, observe all ceremonies, sing devoted praises to any number of divine beings -- liberation never comes, even at the end of a hundred aeons, without the realization of the Oneness of Self."
-- Shankara
"Accustomed to contemplating love and compassion, I have forgotten all the difference between myself and others."
-- Milarepa
"To be enlightened is to one with all things."
-- Dogen
"Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize their oneness with the universe."
-- Black Elk
"We are all more or less ill till we find by Self-inquiry our Oneness with everyone else."
-- Douglas Harding
"All the way to heaven is heaven."
-- St. Catherine of Siena
"I feel myself so much a part of everything living that I am not the least concerned with the beginning or ending of the concrete existence of one person in this eternal flow."
-- Einstein
"There is no other, only you at war."
-- Alice Walker
"Look everywhere with your eyes; but with your soul never look at many things, but one."
-- V.V. Rozanov
"Fear ends in the moment of no separation."
-- Toni Packer
"It is a wonderful feeling to have one's life and one's work become one, to see that one works either twenty-four hours a day or not at all."
-- Paul Wienpahl
"I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception."
-- Tolstoy
"Children, who are closer to their birth and thus to the experience of Oneness, rightly reject hypocrisy."
-- Vimalia McClure
"The only absolute truth is that we're all one; everything else is relative truth."
-- Swami Chetanananda
"Don't let the infinite forms and eternal changes prevent you from realizing the changeless One."
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