Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.

Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

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.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.

If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence, that you are one with it, all fear of death disappears because there is nobody to die inside you. In the first place there is nobody at all, existence lives through you.

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

If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.

Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

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

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

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no longer separate, they have become a melody, a harmony. It is the greatest music possible, all other musics are just faint things compared to it, shadow things compared to it.

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.

My spiritual connection is about embracing everything around me. We're all the same. There are no boundaries . . .

What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because...there is naught but You.

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.