Robert J. Waldinger Quotes

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Too many of us still believe our differences define us.

Thinking of ourselves as members of 'this group' or 'that group,' I think that's a recipe for division.

The biggest nuts and guess what? He is I and I am him.

The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.

If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

Experience tells us that people are not born with the innate ability nor the wish to see the Other as an equal individual in society. Pride in one’s separate identity can be so strong that it obscures the intrinsic value of other identities. Pluralism is a value that must be taught.

Unfortunately, sometimes our leaders, for their own political purposes, want us to think in terms of categories and groupings. Our group vs. this group vs. another group. This must end.

That's why I call the show 'Us & Them,' because I believe there is no 'them.' There's only 'us.'

Becoming a monster sometimes isn't a choice that you have. We're all that; we're all 'the other' in one way or another.

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.

In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but in fact we are just deceiving ourselves. The two will remain two. Howsoever near, the two will remain two. Even in sexual communion they will be two. This two-ness, this duality will never last. So a relationship is only creating a fallacious oneness. It is not there. Oneness can never exist between two selves. Oneness can only exist between two no-selves.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'