Separateness Is An Illusion Quotes

#1. Try to touch the moon so that if you can't you can at lie in stars.

Unanimous

#2. is satisfying, not frightening, not empty. It is an illusion of reality created by ignorance that is so unbearable. The illusion of separateness, the illusion of connectedness to disconnected hardened hearts and closed minds is the source of the suffering that we would all wish to be free of.

Mitch Halper

#3. We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

Bum Phillips

#5. I've always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We're all made of the same thing - the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.

Blake Crouch

#6. Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Thomas Merton

#7. The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#8. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

Albert Einstein

#9. All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".

Barbara Brennan

#10. The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

Leslie Stephen

#11. As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.

Wayne Dyer

#12. I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.

John Pomfret

#13. I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.

Nigel Rees

#14. A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#15. Don't let a weakness make you weak.

Aimee Cohen

#16. He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#18. Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.

Dave Chappelle

#19. As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering? ... by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.

Christmas Humphreys

#20. Like a predator about to devour the target.

Alan Parry

#21. The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony
periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#22. The final product in a play is not just the written word. It's the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it's only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse.

Jesse Kellerman

#23. Money is very powerful inspiration.

Amit Kalantri

#24. Nothing causes more people to deny God, misunderstand God, mistreat others, or abuse Nature more than the illusion of separateness.
Nothing.
No thing.

Donald L. Hicks

#25. It's not that easy. You can make omelet from eggs, but not eggs from omelet.

Robert A. Heinlein

#26. Until the fear of separation is faced there can be only a life of illusion, where nothing real can exist. Until this happens there can be no knowing the stillness of peace, which is to change, in the very near future, for all humanity. The illusion of separateness can not continue to exist.

Donna Guillemette

#27. He was a man. Handsome as sin, arrogant as fuck, and in need of at least one woman to prove he wasn't God's gift to their sex.

Melissa Blue