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“This ´world´ began to forget it was Oneness, like a dream forgetting it is the dreamer. With this amnesia came the phenomenon we call fear, an expression of All Possibility that cannot manifest within the balance of Oneness. Fear only comes with the illusion of division and separation when consciousness perceives itself as part and not the whole. Fear is the shadow of illusory disconnection.”

“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”

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Author:Gayle Forman

“You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.”

Needs Mean Two Ends Clear Clean Separation Clarity Borders Two Things

Book:The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation, goes beyond one's limitations, and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. This is not something that we need to learn, because we already have it. It just needs to be acknowledged and awakened.”

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Author:Ilchi Lee

“Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.”

Time Sin Despair Separation

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.”

Should Humans Country Nations Freedom Race Democracy Stage Separation Human Race Dependent Other Countries

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.”

Moving Choices Love Is Love You Separation Alienation I Love You

Author:Bell Hooks

“There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.”

Thinking Mind Leadership Emotion Separation Linked

Book:Teaching with the Brain in Mind

Source: Teaching with the Brain in Mind

“Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.”

Life States Feelings Love Is Love You Pure Enlightenment Separation Love Life

Author:Barry Long

“The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.”

Should Children Grows Parent Parenting Separation

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.”

“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”

Source: George Washington on religious liberty and mutual understanding: selections from Washington's letters

“I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God's. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," I am in your business. When I'm worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God's business. If I am mentally in your business or in God's business, the effect is separation.”

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Author:Byron Katie

“When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.”

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Author:Christian Bale

“That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of the conscience; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.”

“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”

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Author:Susan Meiselas

“Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.”

“Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.”

States Spirituality Behinds Consciousness Fields Enlightenment Illusion Unity Appearance Separation Mask Wholeness Scenery Pierce Unified Spiritual Awareness Seers Fragmentation

Book:Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life

Source: Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life

“Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.”

Sides Share Yoga Separation

Author:Christy Turlington

“We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.”

Economy Separation Civil Rights Segregation

Author:Malcolm X

“In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open, abundant and inclusive, it allows us to meet pain more directly. With direct seeing, we know that we are not alone in our suffering and that no one need feel alone when in pain. Seeing our oneness is the beginning of compassion, and it allows us to reach beyond aversion and separation.”

Source: The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion

“When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, 'It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better.' And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was going to stay that way for a long time.”

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Author:Uma Thurman

“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.”

“We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.”

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Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.”

Long Seems Meditation Ignorance Unity Separation Far Away Realised True Knowledge

Author:Ramakrishna

“Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me' what is left? There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there. No separation anywhere. Pure awareness. Neither this, nor that. Just clarity and being.”

Mind Mean Left Meditation Awareness Pure Letting Go Separation Clarity Being Me Clinging

Author:Ram Dass

“You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.”

Knows Firsts Chance Separation Second Chance Scooters

Author:Duane G. Carey

“I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.”

Ifs Men Culture Black Justice White Mankind Equal Diversity Social Justice Privilege Possession Favors Separation Enjoyment Brotherhood White Man Castes Subservient

Author:Martin Delany

“We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.”

Mind Humans Fighting Justice Diversity Social Justice Separation All Time Recognition Integration This Society

Author:Malcolm X

“The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it.”

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Author:Shelley Hamlin

“We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.”

War Law Life Is Our Lives Society Fairs Competition Dues Separation Isolation Mutual Hostility Helpfulness

Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

“Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.”

“I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups.”

“Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.”

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Author:Virginia Woolf

“We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!”

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Author:Malcolm X

“Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.”

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

“[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

Book:The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution

Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution

“I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.”

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Author:Macklemore

“Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.”

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Author:Ajahn Brahm

“Man in his effort to pray and receive guidance actually enhances his separation from who he really is and what he is reaching for. In time, you have all answers to all questions.”

Men Answers Effort Awareness Praying Separation Guidance Reaching

Author:Esther Hicks

“...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.”

Science Separation Observation Phenomenon Observers

Book:Across the frontiers

Source: Across the frontiers

“The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.”

Life Science Born Existence Influence Products Profound Separation Artificial

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right? Picture them together, then picture them separating-peeling apart. ... Now you have something, you have two somethings, where once you had nothing.”

Thinking Mean Two Matter Together Science Energy Existence Conditions Pure Add Separation Zero Separating Minus Binary Peeling Antimatter

Author:John Updike