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> 46 quotes tagged "unity"
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We are stronger together than apart. Seek those who share your values and vision. True union comes from mutual respect and genuine connection.I Ching, Hexagram 8: Holding Together / Union
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Not all unions are equal. Know your position and act accordingly. Desire alone doesn't create proper relationship.I Ching, Hexagram 54: The Marrying Maiden / Relationships
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To embrace all things means first that one holds no anger or resistance toward any idea or thing, living or dead, formed or formless. Acceptance is the very essence of the Tao.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 3
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To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service. If your willingness to give blessings is limited, so also is your ability to receive them.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 4
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Those who wish to attain oneness must practice undiscriminating virtue. They must dissolve all ideas of duality: good and bad, beautiful and ugly, high and low.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 7
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There is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no body of information which will lead your mind back to the Tao. Simply be aware of the oneness of things.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 8
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To the highly evolved being, there is no such thing as tolerance, because there is no such thing as other. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 15
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The highest virtue one can exercise is to accept the responsibility of discovering and transmitting the whole truth. Those who improve themselves for the sake of the world will be revealed the whole truth of the universe.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 16
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Those who are highly evolved maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 19
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Within the Great Oneness, though there is no such thing as clairvoyance, telepathy, or telekinesis, all things are seen, all things understood, all things forever in their proper places.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 20
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The mind is desperate to fix the river in place. The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet, and clarity at hand.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 21
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Your nature and the integral nature of the universe are one and the same: indescribable, but eternally present. Simply open yourself to this.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 24
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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised. Therefore her only concern is her own sincerity.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 27
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Every thing is equal to every other thing. Names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Look behind them, and you will discern the deep, silent, complete truth of the Tao.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 32
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The character of your existence is determined by the energies to which you connect yourself. By holding to that which is refined and subtle, one traverses refined and subtle realms.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 34
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Insight is a function of the spirit. Because your spirit follows you through cycle after cycle of life, death, and rebirth, you have the opportunity of cultivating insight in an ongoing fashion.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 35
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The superior person recognizes that he and the subtle law are one. Therefore he cultivates himself to accord with it, bringing moderation to his actions and clarity to his mind.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 40
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The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole. The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it. If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 46
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There are two paths available to you: acceptance or denial. Though these paths are entirely different, they will deliver you to the same place: spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 48
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Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not. Ignore time. Relinquish ideas and concepts. Embrace the Oneness.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 50
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You can't know the body by studying the finger, and you can't understand the universe by learning one science. If you study the whole of the Tao wholeheartedly, then everything in your life will reflect it.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 56
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To understand the universe, you must study the Oneness, the forces of yin and yang, Heaven, Earth, and Man, and the processes of change and recycling taught in the I Ching.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 61
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Through the practices of the Integral Way, one refines gross, heavy energy into something ethereal and light. The new life created is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 66
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To achieve the highest levels of life, one must continually combine new levels of yin and yang. Higher unions of yin and yang are necessary for the conception of higher life.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 67
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Spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 70
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All teachers and techniques are only transitional: true realization comes from the direct merger of one's being with the divine energy of the Tao.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 71
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When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 73
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One who merges her virtue with the universal virtue and extends it to the world without expectation of reward will indeed be the savior of the world.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 76
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The Integral Way eschews conceptual fanaticism, extravagant living, fancy food, violent music. Renouncing what is fashionable and embracing what is plain, honest, and virtuous, it returns you to the subtle essence of life.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 78
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I knew not whether the wind was riding on me or I on the wind.Lieh Tzu, Book 2: The Yellow Emperor
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The man who achieves harmony with Tao enters into close unison with external objects.Lieh Tzu, Book 2: The Yellow Emperor
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One who is able to discern a connecting unity in the most multiform diversity will surely be unconscious of differences between positive and negative.Lieh Tzu, Book 4: Confucius
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He who regards as common property a body appertaining to the universe and the things of the universe is a perfect man. Perfection emerges through viewing all possessions as belonging to the cosmos.Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Ch. 16
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Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and their loss as your own loss.T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien – Moral Injunctions
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Can you keep the unquiet physical-soul from straying, hold fast to the Unity, and never quit it? Can you, when concentrating your breath, make it soft like that of a little child? Rear them, then, feed them, rear them, but do not lay claim to them. Control them, but never lean upon them; Be chief among them, but do not manage them. This is called the Mysterious Power.Tao Te Ching, Chapter 10
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.Alan Watts
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What I am really saying is that you don't need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.Alan Watts
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.Alan Watts
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Everything that happens, everything that I have ever done, everything that anybody else have ever done is part of a harmonious design, that there is no error at all.Alan Watts
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Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery — the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets — is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.Alan Watts
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The world is precisely the relationship between the world and its witnesses, and so if there are no eyes in this world, the sun doesn't make any light, nor do the stars.Alan Watts
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We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.Thich Nhat Hanh
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Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are still one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.Shunryu Suzuki
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The whole world is medicine. What am I?Blue Cliff Record, Case 87 — Yunmen's Medicine and Sickness
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All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists.Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, tr. John Blofeld
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When the ten thousand things are viewed in their oneness, we return to the origin and remain where we have always been.Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, tr. John Blofeld