Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

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.

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Heaven means to be one with God.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

You are within God. God is within you.

We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.

You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.