Emily Carr Quotes

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

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.

When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

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

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

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

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.

Love is connection with others. Union with another human being or living thing. That's also Yoga.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

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

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.