John Donne Quotes

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

When you see love between two persons, something is flowing, moving, changing. When there is love between two persons they live in an aura, there is a constant sharing. Their vibrations are reaching to : each other; they are broadcasting their being to each other. There is no wall between them, they are two and yet not two - they are one also.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Everything happens through relationships.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

Everything contains its antithesis.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

When he is pierced, I bleed.

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

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

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Trust is the glue that holds everything together.

We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.

As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.