Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

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

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

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Unity Consciousness is the experience of the 7 billion plus people on the planet being moved by the same force, which is God. It is the awareness to see what we really are: One Living Being. However, this is a truth that really can't be explained with words; the minute you say it, it is no longer truth.

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

When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.

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

The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

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

That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

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

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

The path up and down is one and the same.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together.

Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking. And now the other person is no longer 'other.' In that space, you are joined together as one awareness, one consciousness.