Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.

Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds

Each the others world entire.

People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.

The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love.

You are the world and the world is you.

Spirituality is not about becoming special. It is about becoming one with everything.

Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

Life is a manifestation of unity.

By thought I embrace the universe.

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.