Thoughts on one-ness

"He who sees that the Lord of all is ever the same in all that is -- immortal in the field of mortality -- he sees the truth. And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others. Then he goes,indeed, to the highest path."

-- The Bhagavad Gita

"As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate."

-- Wayne Dyer

"What is needed now is a universal awareness of our one-ness --the fact that there really is a single collective, and that we all belong to it."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

“A human being is a part of the whole we call universe—a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thought and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all its beauty.”

--Albert Einstein