John Holmes Quotes

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.

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.

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

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

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.

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

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

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I am a part of all that I have met.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

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.

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

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

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the connections between them are not yet known to us.

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.