Henri Matisse Quotes

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

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

Being human means there's a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we're all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.

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

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.

The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

Something there is that does not love a wall.

Everything is together—spiritual and political.

A border is not only a separation; it’s a connection.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

Clearly, on a visceral human front, I oppose any wall, anywhere, between any people - period.

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

Love is to be two and at the same time 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.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

The direction of life is from duality to unity.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?