Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

The many become one and are increased by one.

One included all, and all were contained in one.

All things are in all.

It's not about the individual notes. It's about the energy.

Music is quite an enigma because it is many things together, and it is one whole body. Like a nucleus, it contains every idea, but the basic stand is the same.

I just think it's good to have a big, living, breathing piece of music that's not just songs.

Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the connections between them are not yet known to us.

Nature does not compartmentalise. Its instinct is integrative and holistic.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

For nature then to me was all in all.

The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or events. Underneath the surface appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the cosmos that has brought about the form that this moment takes.

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

And the whole is greater than the part.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Nothing is part of everything.

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.