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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“I would forget that I'm just talking as a human being to fellow human beings. I would think of myself as something… — Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging the third has to do with validating the erotic separateness of our partner. It follows that our partner's sexuality does not… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according… — Rajneesh 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
“The other more serious reason for the illusion of separateness is compulsive thinking. It is when we are trapped in incessant streams… — Eckhart Tolle 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
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 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
Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls… — Khalil Gibran 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 two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we all are heir as individuals,… — Rollo May 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
I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various… — Joseph Jaworski 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
As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion,… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
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
Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
“The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Being separate means being cut off, without any… — Erich Fromm 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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so… — Anonymous 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
![“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/i/826/joseph-campbell-300_aim_the-essence-of-oneself-and-the-essence-o_2824384.png)
![“As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.” quote by Christmas Humphreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/christmas-humphreys-37534_breathing_as-we-increasingly-become-aware-of-the-o_2340503.jpg)
