Oneness Quotes (page 77)

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• people
• universe
• humanity

One aim of my field is to relativize the images possessed by individuals, discover in these images the factors universal to all human beings, and feed these universal truths back to those same individuals. As a result of this process, people might be able to belong to something even as they maintain their autonomy. Haruki Murakami

• look
• imagination
• exchanges

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. Honore de Balzac

• change
• play
• forever

One play can change your momentum forever. Sherman Alexie

• god
• broken
• understanding

One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to assume that mankind is masculine. It is not. It takes both male and female to make the image of God. The proper understanding of mankind is that it is only a poor, broken thing if either male or female is excluded. Madeleine L'Engle

• change
• learning
• others

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others. Nelson Mandela

• world
• worlds
• doing

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something. Henry David Thoreau

• buckles
• three
• two

One, two, three / Buckle my shoe. Robert Benchley

• difficult
• challenge
• different

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. Judith Martin

• pool
• lies
• mindfulness

One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot / (because my truck wheels were glued / in deep mud once again), / I walked straight into / the waiting non-arms of a snake, / its tan beaded-bag skin / studded with black diamonds.Up it coiled to speak to me a eye level. / Imagine! that sleek finger / rising out of the land's palm / and coiling faster than a Hindu rope. / The thrill of a bull snake / startled in the morning / when the mesas... Diane Ackerman

• people
• war
• character

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. Kurt Vonnegut

• look
• new
• new look

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things. Henry Miller

• pain
• peace
• men

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. Walter Isaacson

• willingly
• shot
• doings

One thing is certain, 100% of the shots you do not take will not go in. Wayne Gretzky

• rainbow
• reflection
• artist

One opal cloudlet in an oval form reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm which in a distant valley has been staged for we are most artistically caged. Vladimir Nabokov

• view
• reflection
• negativity

One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view. Daisaku Ikeda