{"quotes":[{"text":"Can we share my eyes so you can see what I see?Can we share my ears so you can hear what I hear?Can you perch on my shouldersso you can go where I go?Always in my heart, I don’t experience anything separate from you.This shared wonderment becomes doubled.This shared love becomes infinite.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beloved","boyfriend","double","ears","experience","eyes","girlfriend","go","harmony","hear","husband","infinite","inspiration","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","love-is-love","love-poem","loved","lover","loving","me-and-you","one-love","perch","poem","quote","relationship","see","separate","share","shared","sharing","shoulders","together","togetherness","unity","wife","wonderment","you-and-i","you-and-me"],"id":1382,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":1788,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.","author":"Nelson Mandela","tags":["democracy","equality","freedom","peace","unity"],"id":2248,"author_id":"Nelson+Mandela"},{"text":"Divided you Vanish, United you grow.","author":"Abed Rahmani","tags":["united","unity"],"id":3171,"author_id":"Abed+Rahmani"},{"text":"The ability to be tough-minded remains useful; but by now, the fact that we are all in trouble in terms of both nature and culture can only be denied by those who become overly conservative and blindly reactionary. The more tender-hearted imagination that suggests we are all in this together and that there must be an underlying unity in life may be the only way to survive.","author":"Michael Meade","tags":["compassion","gentleness","imagination","unity"],"id":3298,"author_id":"Michael+Meade"},{"text":"Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["advance","affect","aid","alter","animal","animals","ants","assist","assistance","better","black","change","cooperation","creatures","difference","effect","feel","guide","harmony","help","helping","hope","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hour","human","humanity","improve","influence","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live","living","lose","make-a-difference","one-world","power","powerful","powerless","powerlessness","realise","realize","recognise","recognize","relief","save","shape","sight","speck","spend","take","time","together","togetherness","transform","transformation","transformative","unity"],"id":4267,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["beautiful","beauty","brownie-point","candle","family","friendliness","friendly","friends","friendship","hate","heart","hello","hellos","human-family","illuminate","indifference","kind","kindness","light","love","loving-others","man","mankind","mirrored","mirroring","neighbor","peace","project","radiate","reflect","reflection","relationships","reward","shine","society","spiritual","spiritual-reward","stranger","truth","united","unity","world-peace"],"id":4563,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.","author":"Brian Celio","tags":["individuality","unity"],"id":4868,"author_id":"Brian+Celio"},{"text":"You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless.","author":"Zhuangzi","tags":["boundlessness","inaction","taoism","unity","wuwei"],"id":4954,"author_id":"Zhuangzi"},{"text":"There are few things more powerful than people united. What they unite over is not what matters. ... The most important aspect is remembering our existing connection, and, through that, allowing ourselves to feel at peace.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["coming-together","connection","love","peace","people","people-united","unity"],"id":5013,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1018,"pages":102,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}