There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness.” — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“To be just meaans to recognize the other as other; it means to give acknowledgment even where one cannot love... A just… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Just as mind rises up and rebels at un unskillful attempt to subdue it in meditation, a relationship will fall apart if… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
We are not separate. Our sense of separateness is superficial and exist only in the physical dimension. In our human element, we… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one’s soul,… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Once the primary bonds which gave security to the individual are severed, once the individual faces the world outside of himself as… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“Yes, I thought it was wonderful,” he lied and looked away; the sight of her transfigured face was at once an accusation… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The point is that if you accept that there is only one energy in all things, then on an energy level there… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
![“The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/826/joseph-campbell-300_aim_the-essence-of-oneself-and-the-essence-o_2824384.jpg)
