Oneness Quotes
Well...this pretty much sums it up: Of what can we be certain except this — that we are fertilized by mysterious circumstances? Where is man’s truth to be found? Truth is not that which can be demonstrated by the air of logic. If orange trees are hardy and rich in fruit in this bit of soil and not that, then this bit of soil is what is truth for orange trees. If a particular religion, or culture, or scale of values, if one form of activity rather than another, brings self- fulfillment to a man, releases the prince within him unknown to himself, then that scale of values, that culture, that form of activity constitutes his truth.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery oneness quote
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
— Nelson Mandela
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind — Mahatma Gandhi
Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.
— Christmas Humphreys
By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!
— Zarathustra (Zoroaster) spiritual quotes
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is one. Sages call it by different names.
— Rig Veda (c. 4000 BC)
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
— Albert Einstein
The Creator Himself, at one and the same time, knowledge, the knower, and the known ... There exists nothing which is not united to Him and which He does not find His own essence. He is the type of all being, and all things exist in Him under their most pure and most perfect form.
— Kabbalist Moses Cordovero, Page 74 of Kabbalah: The Way of The Jewish Mystic by Perle Epstein
Once unfettered and delivered from their deadweight of dogmaticinterpretations, personal names, anthropomorphic conceptions and salaried priests, the fundamental doctrines of all religions will be provedto be identical in their esoteric meaning. Osiris, Krishna, Buddha, Christ, will be shown as different names for one and the same royal highway to final bliss, Nirvana.
— The Maha Chohan
When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
— Lao-Tzu
The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.
— The Upanishads mystic quote
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
— Kenyan Proverb
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
— Emerson
In union there is strength.
— Aesop
Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vasterthan all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes allobjects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.
— Meher Baba oneness quote
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings...
– Buddha
Those who act kindly in this world will have kindness.
– Qur'an 39.10
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
— Florence Nightingale oneness quote
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.
— Dalai Lama
I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning.
— Daniel D. Mich spiritual quote
I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.
— Don Marquis oneness quote
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.
— Leo Tolstoy, “Resurrection”
All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
— Meher Baba oneness quote
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
— Hebrews 13:2 bible quote
...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
— Meher Baba
If you want happiness...
For an hour — take a nap.
For a day — go fishing.
For a month — get married.
For a year — inherit a fortune.
For a lifetime — help someone else.
— Chinese Proverb oneness quote
Be the change you wish to see reflected in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He who gains victory over other men is strong; but he who gains victory over himself is all powerful.
— Lao-Tzu
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
— Leo Tolstoy oneness quote
The highest result of education is tolerance.
— Helen Keller
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer oneness quote
We need to dwarf our troubles and magnify our blessings.
— Humphrey B. Neil
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
— Buddha oneness quote
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
— Henry Miller
You can’t change the past, and you can ruin a perfectly good present, by worrying about the future.
— Anonymous
If you always give, you will always have.
— Chinese proverb
The human being is part of the whole, called by us the ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
— Albert Einstein mystic quote
All beings tremble before violence.
All fear death.
All love life.
See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?
He who seeks happiness
By hurting those who seek happiness
Will never find happiness.
For your brother and sister are like you.
They want to be happy.
Never harm them.
And when you leave this life
You too will find happiness.
— Buddha oneness quote
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
— Albert Einstein mystic quote
Live simply so that others may simply live.
— Mahatma Gandhi oneness quote
God is in the details.
— Ludwig Mies Van der Roge (German architect)
If god doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you.
— Anonymous oneness quote
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
— Emerson, "The Over— Soul"
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
— Sri Chinmoy Ghose spiritual quote
There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.
– Meher Baba oneness quote
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
— Dalai Lama oneness quote
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.
– Meher Baba
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
— Buddha oneness quote
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
— Albert Einstein mystic quote
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.
— Kahlil Gibran spiritual quote
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
— Thomas Carlyle oneness quote
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
— Albert Schweitzer
Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
— Meher Baba oneness quote
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin oneness quote
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
— Buddha
What we think, we become. oneness quote
— Buddha
As you think, so shall you be.
— Jesus of Nazareth bible quote
Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas — cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
— Meher Baba oneness quote
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
— Albert Einstein oneness quote
The wise embrace unity
luminous without ostentation
distinguished without justifying
recognized without boasting
persevering without complaining
– Lao Tzu
The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
— Emily Dickinson
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
— Wilson Mizner oneness quote
Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
— Meher Baba
When I do not know who I am, I serve you. When I know who I am, I am you.
– Indian proverb oneness quote
The world stands upon three things: upon the Law, upon worship and upon showing kindness.
— Judaism Mishnah, Abot 1.2
Where'er a noble deed is wrought,
Where'er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise
To higher levels rise.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow oneness quote
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, forgiveness.
— Dalai Lama
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God— given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
– Mark Twain oneness quote
He is one, the Lord and innermost Self of all;
Of one form, he makes of himself many forms.
To him who sees the Self revealed in his own heart
Belongs eternal bliss.
– traditional, Katha Upanishad
The mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
— Thomas Carlyle
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
— Buddha oneness quote
In my Father's house are many mansions.
— The Bible, John 14:2 bible quote
To see the world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
— William Blake oneness quote
The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.
— Author Unknown
No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
— Meher Baba oneness quote
You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.
— Dalai Lama
He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.
— Acts 20:35 bible quote
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
– Bahá'u'lláh
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
— Winston Churchill oneness quote
The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
— Author Unknown
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all— the apathy of human beings.
— Helen Keller oneness quote
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you — not because they are nice, but because you are.
— Author Unknown
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
— Rudyard Kipling oneness quote
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
— Albert Einstein oneness quote
When you see your brother, you see God.
— St. Clement of Alexandria
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
— Bob Hope oneness quote
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
— Louisa May Alcott
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
— Willie Davis
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
— Mark Twain oneness quote