Josiah Royce Quotes

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

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.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

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.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

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

I am a part of all that I have met.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

We are the universe pretending to be individuals.

They are the we of me.