Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.If you wish to know the Divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. BuddhaThe Heart of OnenessYou are a second world in miniature; the sun and moon are within you, and also the stars. OrigenAll things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one–if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind. Marcus AureliusWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow humans. Herman MelvilleOn a magical day in pure harmony with nature. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality—not as we expect it to be but as it is—is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. Frederick Buechner
It is unity we are talking about, not uniformity. What is needed is to respect one another’s points of view and not to impute unworthy
motives to one another or to seek to impugn the integrity of the other.Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to
disagree and yet continue to love one another and to cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
Desmond Tutu
When I speak about attention, I mean literally, “How much attention can we pay to ourselves?” As children, sometimes we cannot hold our attention for more than a couple of seconds. Over the years we
are able to attend to more and more. Yet, we’re seldom schooled
to hold life in respect, to enlarge our ability to love, take care of,
and be respectfully connected with all things around us.
Brooke Medicine Eagle
No one is an island, entire of itself; everyone is a piece of Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor or thy friends or of thine own were; any person’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Humankind.
John Donne
Soul Walk
The Wonder and Beauty in Shadow and Light 