Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.

You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life-you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

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

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

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.

Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has to love all. Love is prayer. And the more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger - because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love - suddenly we are not two: the bird is inside us and we are inside the bird.

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

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.

Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Spirit moves through all things.