Divine Interconnectedness Quotes

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflection s of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit.

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.

The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone.

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.

Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

Since each soul is some part of the Whole, it is impossible that any soul can be lost.

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?