In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.
I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.
Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church. . . The way the concept is used today is totally reversed from the original intent. . . It is used today as a false political dictum in order to restrict the influence of Christian ideas. . . To have suggested the state separated from religion and religious influence would have amazed the Founding Fathers.
Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?
Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.
If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality. . . Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.
Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
. . . having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
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.
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.
No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.
Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.
America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers is not a mere "technicality. " It is the centerpiece of our Constitution. Our freedoms depend upon it in the future, just as they have in the past.
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.