Norman Cousins Quotes

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

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more.

There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.

The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

I turned my head to the sky, to the sun, to the stars, and put a little piece of my love in every star, in the moon, in the sun, and they loved me back. And I became one with the moon and the sun and the stars, and my love kept growing and growing. And I put a little piece of my love in every human, and I became one with the whole of humanity. Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.

For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

We are all part of the same energy that envelops.

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

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.