"In him within whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family."
-- Buddha
"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."
-- Emerson
"If one always experienced the Divine Presence, there would be no difference between the sacred and the secular, because this difference does not exist in Divine Consciousness."
-- Paul Tillich
"The idea of unity doesn't preclude the uniqueness of us all."
-- A.C. Ping
"To be fully human is to rediscover that primordial Unity from which all the heavens and earths originate and yet from which nothing ever really departs."
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
"No action or condition actually separates us from God -- but the experience of actions and conditions tends to awaken the presumption of separation from God."
-- Da Free John
"... to be God is never perceiving anything as separate from ourselves."
-- Jack Schwarz
"When the 10,000 things are viewed in their oneness, we return to the Origin and remain where we have always been."
-- Seng T'sen
"Purity does not lie in separation from but in deeper penetration into the universe."
-- Teilhard de Chardin
"We are many grapes on the same vine."
-- Yehuda Berg
"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity."
-- Richard Baxter
"In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else."
-- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all."
-- Cervantes
"There is only one church and your membership is your belly button."
-- Stephen Gaskin
"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings -- it's all a miracle."
-- Arthur Rubinstein
"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."
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