Ruth St. Denis Quotes

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

There is no separation between being and the manifested world, between the manifested and the unmanifested. But the unmanifested is so much vaster, deeper, and greater than what happens in the manifested.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

My spiritual connection is about embracing everything around me. We're all the same. There are no boundaries . . .

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

Each thing implies the universe.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.