Henri Nouwen Quotes

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

If love is what I've experienced, I can't separate it from other people. I can't separate creation, and I can't separate whatever this creative thing is, from it's creation. I don't believe that can be done. We're all part of this creative force.

My spiritual connection is about embracing everything around me. We're all the same. There are no boundaries . . .

Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

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.'

I am two with nature.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

You are within God. God is within you.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.