#unity

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. ↗

— Annette Simmons

#illusions #interdependence #ritual #stories #storytelling

There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they´ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything you have to others, but lose nothing of yourself. Out in the real world there exist detailed plans, visionary projects for peacable realms, all conflicts resolved, happiness for everyone, for ever - mirages for which people are prepared to die and kill. Christ´s kingdom on earth, the workers´paradise, the ideal Islamic state. But only in music, and only on rare occasions, does the curtain actually lift on this dream of community, and it´s tantalisingly conjured, before fading away with the last notes. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#dream #music #musicians #dreams

Out of clutter, find simplicity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#difficulty #discord #harmony #oppurtunity #work

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#opportunity #work #work

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. ↗

— Nicholas Kristof

#generations #inequality #inequity #opportunity #united-states

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#unity #community

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#unity #unity

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return. ↗

— David Fontana

#fontana #oneness #unity #zen #unity

What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition? ↗

— Albert Camus

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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#knowledge #siddhartha #unity #world #unity