Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience:… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
“the sense of separateness from the rest of the world, as if everyone else knew the part they were playing but I’d… — John O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
“There is an inherent unity and harmony in the universe. The divisions and disharmony we find on earth are created by the… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
“Thus, within Linnaean terminology, a female characteristic (the lactating mamma) ties humans to brutes, while a traditionally male characteristic (reason) marks our… — Londa Schiebinger Copy Share Image
There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Solidarity is identifying with one another without feeling like you have to agree on every issue. It’s unity, not uniformity. It’s listening… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
“It is the human beings ability to perceive himself as distinct from everything around him that creates his separateness from everything and… — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Either melt by devotion the sense of separateness, or burn it by knowledge-for what is it that melts or burns? Only that… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
“But in many individuals in whom separateness is not relieved in other ways, the search for the sexual orgasm assumes a function… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
