October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

Anne Strader

Namaste, dear friends around the world! One of the ways this greeting is translated from the Sanskrit is:

"I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells, I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Truth, of Light, and of Peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One."

Let us strive to dwell in that place within ourselves more and more, until finally we are able to live the truth that we are, truly, all one in the One. Only in this way can wars cease; only when we all dwell in our unity can we bring peace to the world. May we come to know this truth in the depths of our being as we meet together in oneness in the Silence. Namaste!

We are truly one

Anonymous | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

Realize that we are truly one. We may be different in our cultures, color, beliefs, sizes, shapes, morals, and education, but we have the same feelings of wanting to be loved, accepted, and safe. We want our families and children to be healthy and safe and happy. We all need love in our lives.

~ Anonymous

Everyone is part of you

Elsie Morgan | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

Realize that each soul is related to you.
When you recognize that everyone is part of you,
you will find that you cannot
withdraw from one another.

~ by Elsie Morgan

Absolute unity with all life

Peace Pilgrim | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

It does not matter what name you attach to it, but your consciousness must ascend to the point through which you view the universe with your God-centered nature. The feeling accompanying this experience is that of complete oneness with the Universal Whole. One merges into a euphoria of absolute unity with all life . . .

~ by Peace Pilgrim

We are all One

Sushila Blackman | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

Great masters live well, not for anticipated personal gain, but for the love of God. Their lives are full of selfless service because they understand that we are all One. It is time for us to perceive ourselves as spiritual beings with physical experiences rather than as physical beings with spiritual experiences.
 

~ from GRACEFUL EXITS by Sushila Blackman

The first law is that we all are one

Joseph Campbell | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

Survival is the second law of life.
The first is that we are all one.

~ by Joseph Campbell

We drew a circle that took them in

Edwin Markham | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

He drew a circle that shut me out -- heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: we drew a circle that took them in

~ by Edwin Markham

Everywhere entire and nowhere confined

Eliphas Levi | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

A single Spirit fills infinity. It is that of God, whom nothing limits or divides, who is everywhere entire and nowhere confined

~ by Eliphas Levi

Waking up from the dream of separation to the truth of unity

Adyashanti | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

True meditation is about waking up from the dream of separation to the truth of unity . . . awakening to the realization of what you and everything actually is, the oneness of all. To perceive everything as one is not an altered state of consciousness; it's an unaltered state of consciousness, the natural state of consciousness. Enlightenment is the natural state, the innocent state which is uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind. We wake up by allowing ourselves to rest in the natural state from the very beginning . . . by "allowing everything to be as it is."

~ from TRUE MEDITATION by Adyashanti

Not myself, but Love

Thomas Merton | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

This will be my solitude, to be separated from myself so that I am able to love You alone, to love You so much that I no longer realize I am loving anything. I no longer desire to be myself, but to find myself transformed in You, so that there is no "myself" but only Yourself. That is when I will be what You have willed to make me from all eternity: not myself, but Love.

~ by Thomas Merton in "Dialogue with Silence"

To become one with that which is

Henry Miller | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

We invent nothing. We borrow and recreate. We uncover and discover. All has been given. . . . We have only to open our eyes and hearts to become one with that which is.

~ by Henry Miller

The mere idea of oneness

Susan Sims Smith | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

The mere idea of oneness is not the same as the experience of oneness. The actual experience makes all the difference.

~ by Susan Sims Smith

Our willingness to be the one we are

Gunilla Norris | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

Through our willingness to be the one we are, we become one with everything.

~ Gunilla Norris

Indivisible oneness is the creative energy

Wayne Dyer | October 2010 (Vol. XXIII, No. 9)

Indivisible oneness is the creative energy that turns a seed into a maple tree, or a watermelon or a human being or anything else that's alive. It's invisible, omnipresent, and absolutely indivisible. We can't divide oneness. Meditation offers us the closest experience we can have of rejoining our Source and being in the oneness at the same time that we're embodied. This means we have to tame our ego.
 

~ by Wayne Dyer in Peak Vitality