Laurie Anderson Quotes

Everything is together—spiritual and political.

Connected to the collective heart, you can be certain in every cell of your being that you are never alone, and you will experience the grace, guidance and ease that comes when you are one with all there is.

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.

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

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

I don't want to be above my audience; I want to be one with my audience.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

We Are One

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

No one can divide the people of India.

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

We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.

We are all stars in this galaxy. All of us. No one's greater than the other.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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.

The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an inner oneness and sense of unity with them represents a fundamental revolution in the way we view and live our lives. Therefore, discriminating against another person is the same as discriminating against oneself. When we hurt another, we are hurting ourselves. And when we respect others, we respect and elevate our own lives as well.

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

We are all one body, we are all one.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.