spiritual interconnectedness Quotes

Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.

If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

We divide ourselves up into spirit and human, but essentially we are all a part of the same world.

Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.

The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?

BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflection s of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit.

I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect. I see us as well as social creatures, and when I began to look back and say, ‘what is the fundamental bottom line for us as social creatures?’I couldn’t believe it because it seemed so hippy dippy, but it was Love. Love is the force that makes us fully human.

The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."

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