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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another
- Thomas Merton
Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections.
- Thomas Watson
As a spirit dwelling in the ever-evolving human experience, I know that I am no better or worse than any other being. I simply am. You simply are. We are connected.
- Oprah Winfrey
I look at my hands, and wonder what they are doing there. That water there ripples right through me. I'm sure that I am that rippling. It runs right through me, and I through it. There are no barriers between us... A sort of disseminates consciousness, that's all there is of me. I feel as if my body were laying empty, as if I were in the other things - clouds and water-... the individual bodily me is discarded. But if so then I am not alive here. I'm sure it would destroy me.
- DH Lawrence
And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers… and the women my sisters and lovers
- Walt Whitman
I do not call one greater and one smaller, that which fills it period and place is equal to any.
- Walt Whitman
I do not call one greater and one smaller, That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
- Walt Whitman
In all people I see myself, none more and not one barley-corn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
- Walt Whitman
The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't.
- Wendell Berry
The heart of this relationship is that there is one universal presence of the cause of all that is, secretly and unrecognizably binding all things together, yet dwelling in each being in a different way; this presence holds the individual parts of the whole together, in itself and in each other, unconfused and inseparable, and allows them, through this very relationship of creative unity, to live more for each other than for themselves.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Those who love desire to share with the beloved. They want to be one with the beloved, and Sacred Scripture shows us the great love story of God for his people which culminated in Jesus Christ.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Maintain the unity of the Spirit
- Timothy Lane