Diana Eck Quotes

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

E Pluribus Unum, the Latin phrase on the great seal of the United States literally translated means one from many. We need to reattach pluribus to unum—the many to the one.

Uniters do win over dividers—eventually.

There is more that unites us than divides us.

I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.

We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

Unification or Death

And that night, they were not divided.

Our national well-being is in inverse proportion to the sharpness and extent of our theoretical differences.

Separate not thyself from the community.

Too many prefer to cling to the thing that divides us, and precious few are willing to come together over the thing that unites us.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

I am two with nature.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

I'm about unity.

Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.