oneness Quotes

“He who perceives all beings as the Self for him how can there be delusion or grief, when he sees this oneness (everywhere)?”

“Sometimes it seems like we’re so close we form one single complete person rather than four separate ones.”

“The drums were still beating, persistent and unchanging. Their sound was no longer a separate thing from the living village. It was like the pulsation of its heart. It throbbed in the air, in the sunshine, and even in the trees, and filled the village with excitement.”

“Man is separated into soul and body, and only when the two sides of his senses agree together, does utterance of its thought conceived by mind take place.”

“Freak is still holding tight to my shoulders and when they ask him for his name, he says, ‘We’re Freak the Mighty, that’s who we are.‘”

“She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid.”

“I wanted a life in which there was a constant oneness of feeling with others, in which the basic emotions of life were shared.”