David Mitchell Quotes

The many become one and are increased by one.

It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

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

Differentiation is how ONE becomes many while remaining ONE. Differentiation is not separation.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Life is a manifestation of unity.

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

Each the others world entire.

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

All things are infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small also is infinite. And when they are all together, the parts are not clear and distinct because of their smallness

The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the connections between them are not yet known to us.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.

If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?

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.

For nature then to me was all in all.