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Unity is the state of being joined together

• Unity: The state of being united or joined as a whole. Oxford Dictionary
• Unity: A totality of related parts.  Merriam Webster Dictionary
• Unity: The state of being joined together or in agreement. Cambridge Dictionary
• Unity: The state of being one; oneness. Dictionary.com
• Unity: A whole or totality as combining all its parts into one. Dictionary.com
• Unity: Oneness of mind, feeling, etc., as among a number of persons; concord, harmony, or agreement. Dictionary.com
• Oneness, Teamwork,  Cooperation,  Connectedness,  Interdependence,  Community,  Connection,  Synergy

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Unity is one of the ancient and eternal values of life

• The ancient and eternal values of human life – truth, unity, goodness, justice, beauty, and love are all statements of belonging; they are also the secret intention and dream of human longing.  John O’Donohue
• Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Thomas Aquinas
• Values,  Principles

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An appreciation of unity is where true wisdom lies

• Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Herman Hesse
• Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. William Butler Yeats
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Unity is strength

• “We = power” Lorii Myers
• Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable. Chris Bradford
• A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle. Japanese Proverb
• Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. Ryunosuke Satoro
• In union there is strength. Aesop
• One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites. Master Jin Kwon
• The strength of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team. Coach Phil
• The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation. Jonathan Haidt
• Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. Mattie Stepanek
• When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. Ethiopian Proverb
• Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.  Andrew Carnegie
• We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. J.K. Rowling
• Even the weak become strong when they are united. Friedrich von Schiller
• United we stand, divided we fall. George Pope Morris
• All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. Alexandre Dumas
• By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.  Sallust
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Together, we’re smarter

• None of us is as smart as all of us. Ken Blanchard
• I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson
• Two heads are better than one. Proverb
• No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.  James Stavridis
• Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it’s a relay race. Quyen Nguyen
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Together, we can achieve more

• The path to greatness is along with others. Baltasar Gracion
• Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result. Enoch Onuoha
• I love teamwork. I love the idea of everyone rallying together to help me win. Jarod Kintz
• There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. George Shinn
• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller
• Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.
• Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. Kenyan Proverb
• Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.  Henry Ford
• Working together works. Rob Gilbert
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Meade
• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Napoleon Hill
• Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable. Pat Riley
• TEAM — Together Everyone Achieves More.
• There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. Lyndon B. Johnson
• Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. Vesta M. Kelly
• An assigned team can do good things; a self-organized team can accomplish great things. Kare Anderson
• We exist as a community, yet we achieve as a team. Boris Pluskowski
• People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. Allan Fromme
• Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds. SEAL Team saying
• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. Vince Lombardi
• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.  Vince Lombardi
• Teamwork divides that tasks and multiplies the success.
• Where there is unity there is always victory. Publilius Syrus
• It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big Charles A. Garfield
• Achievement,  Success

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Working together feels good and helps share the load

• The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. Margaret Carty
• Many hands make light work. John Heywood
• Light is the task where many share the toil. Homer
• A job worth doing is worth doing together.
• Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas.  John Sweeney
• If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. Askhari Johnson Hodari

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Working together helps solve problems

• No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything. Dodge
• The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other.  Thomas Stallkamp
• Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often than the smart individuals, who tended to think similarly. Scott E. Page
• If we would just support each other — that’s ninety percent of the problem. Edward Gardner
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Given our unity, our personal and collective fate are one

• Given the unity of all minds, what we do to others, and what we think about others, boomerangs back to us. If we wish to feel peace, then we must wish peace for others. And whatever punishment we wish upon others, we subconsciously attract to ourselves.  Marianne Williamson
• Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. Alexander The Great
• We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin
• The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life. Peter Kropotkin
• Fate,  Destiny

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Unity is a shared vision

• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Andrew Carnegie
• When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. John Lennon
• Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.  Andrew Carnegie
• Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. Henry Adams
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A sense of unity is what brings a team together

• Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. Virginia Burden
• Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity. Vince Lombardi
• Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.
• Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others. Katzenbach & Smith
• All for one, one for all. Alexander Dumas
• Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. Alexander the Great
• In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first- ahead of personal glory. Paul Bear Bryant
• In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first — ahead of personal glory. Paul Bryant

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Unity is how you all work together, not how each person performs

• A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way. Swahili proverb
• If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. Henry Ford
• The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together. Vince Lombardi
• The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. James Cash
• When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality. Joe Paterno
• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. Kareem Abdul- Jabbar
• A unifying goal has power only if all groups pull together to make it a reality. Morten Hansen

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Appreciate the diversity in unity …

• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. H. Auden
• In our unity, let us celebrate diversity
• Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. Mikhail Gorbachev
• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. Somerset Maugham
• God is Unity, but always works in variety.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and grow in and with these differences. We are all different. We are not the same. But that’s beautiful. And that’s okay. The quest for unity and peace, we cannot blind ourselves and expect to be all the same. Because in this, we all have an underlying belief that everyone should be the same as us at some point. We are not on a journey to become the same or to be the same. But we are on a journey to see that in all of our differences, that is what makes us beautiful as a human race, and if we are ever to grow, we ought to learn and always learn some more.   JoyBell C.
• Individuality or Unity? I say there’s room for both. Brian Celio
• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. Irving Babbitt
• In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity. Philipp Melanchthon
• To create a vision of the harmony of the unequal, balance the infinite variety, the chaotic, the contradictions – in a unity.  Hans Richter
• Diversity,  Appreciation

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… for unity does not have to mean uniformity

• 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
• The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. John F. Kennedy
• Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety.  Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.  Mary Parker Follett
• The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact. Rabindranath Tagore
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Spirituality is about seeing yourself as part of the unity of all things

• A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings. Michael Lerner
• But in the end spirituality is not about watching the breath. It’s about waking up from the dream of separateness to the truth of unity. Adyashanti
• He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. Buddha
• The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Albert Einstein
• We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind. Rabindranath Tagore
• 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
• The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder. Rabindranath Tagore
• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. Sai Baba
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Perceiving this unity of all things is part of the process of enlightenment

• It does not matter what name you attach to it, but your consciousness must ascend to the point through which you view the universe with your God-centered nature. The feeling accompanying this experience is that of complete oneness with the Universal Whole.  One merges into a euphoria of absolute unity with all life.  Peace Pilgrim
• So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. Baha’u’llah
• The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything – that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be? Daniel Pinchbeck
• Unity awareness is consciousness of the greater whole of which we are all a part and which we are now able to embody in human form. Jude Currivan
• Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. Dogen
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In unity, there is non-attachment

• According to the Buddhist point of view, nonattachment is exactly the opposite of separation. You need two things in order to have attachment: the thing you’re attaching to, and the person who’s attaching. In nonattachment, on the other hand, there’s unity. There’s unity because there’s nothing to attach to. If you have unified with the whole universe, there’s nothing outside of you, so the notion of attachment becomes absurd. Who will attach to what? John Daido Loori
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In unity, there is tranquility

• Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility. Thomas Hoover
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In unity, there is divine grace

• Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. Thomas Merton
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• What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. Edmund Burke

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A sense of unity with all beings is what true love is

• But what I mean by love is not an emotion, it is a state of being. True love has no object.  Many speak of their unconditional love for another.  Unconditional love is the experience of being; there is no “I” and “other,” and anyone or anything it touches is experienced in love.  You cannot unconditionally love someone.  You can only be unconditional love.  It is not a dualistic emotion.  It is a sense of oneness with all that is.  The experience of love arises when we surrender our separateness into the universal.  It is a feeling of unity.  You don’t love another, you are another.  There is no fear because there is no separation.  Stephen Levine
• I am Love. Life is about making love. To everything. Love is the point of it all. Love is the energy of which I am made. It is the energy that holds me together. Love is my experience of Self when I see everyone as part of me. It is unity expressed. We are all part of God. I love you comes to mean “the god in me sees the god in you.” Neale Donald Walsch
• Many believe that the dawning Age of Light or Age of Consciousness defines itself in relation to our capacity for unconditional love, our ability to transcend enemy patterning and victim consciousness while adopting unity consciousness that sees divinity in all things. From this standpoint, it might be said humans are evolving into a “biologically conscious” species capable of holding and sharing the full light of unconditional love. Sol Luckman
• The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds. Aberjhani
• The cementing factor of this unity in multiplicity is Love. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Unity is the essence of community

• Equality comes in realizing that we are all doing different jobs for a common purpose. That is the aim behind any community. The very name community means let’s come together to recognize the unity. Come … unity. Swami Satchidananda
• We exist as a community, yet we achieve as a team. Boris Pluskowski
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Sometimes the unity of all things can best be appreciated in nature

• I stood still, paralyzed by the beauty and the magic of this moment. Everything stopped, even my breath. Like a sloth, I didn’t want to move. There was nowhere else I needed or wanted to be. Standing there absorbing the beauty of this place, I stepped out of time. In this timeless moment, I saw and felt the unity of all things. There it was all around me: the chaos of the natural world, silently woven into a tapestry of exquisite, perfect order. I felt at one with the trees, rocks, plants, birds, insects, squirrels, leaves, and water. A witness to this sacred scene, I felt humbled and blessed to be given this moment. Judith Rich
• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir
• Nature is a unity in diversity…a harmony, blending together all created things…one great whole animated by the breath of life. Alexander von Humboldt
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Unity is also evident through sexuality

• The beauty and wisdom of Tantra is that it enhances sexuality as a doorway to the “ecstatic mind of great bliss”. Truly, at the peak of orgasm, we pierce through the illusion of fragmentation and separation, and glimpse the unity and interconnectedness of all beings. And through the other–our partner–we fall in love with life.  Margot Anand
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Unity is evident through Science

• The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike. Jacob Bronkowski
• It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth. Albert Einstein
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• What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and will give unity and direction to our life. We can never know the profoundest joy without conviction that our life is significant—not a meaningless episode. The loftiest aim of human life is the ethical perfecting of mankind—the transfiguration of humanity. Henry J. Golding
• Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body’s deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body’s superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. Henri Nouwen
• A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity.  Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony. Anthony Lawlor
• By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. Saint Augustine
• The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests … By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion. Brian Swimme

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• When the ten thousand things are viewed in their oneness, We return to the origin and remain where we have always been. Third Zen Patriarch
• Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety. Emile Zola
• Who sees variety and not the unity wanders on from death to death. the Upanishads
• And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people. And that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing ‘unity.” Stephen Chbosky
• Any unity which doesn’t have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. Blaise Pascal
• When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness. Clark Moustakas
• Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. Mahatma Gandhi
• Politics is organized hatred, that is unity. John Jay Chapman
• Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. Muhammad Iqbal
• Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. Bertrand Russell
• But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events. Muhammad Iqbal
• Necessity unites. Proverb
• Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity. Psalms 133:1 (Bible)
• We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men. Herbert Hoover
• We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are. Thomas Merton

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• Sometimes the thing that brings us together also pulls us apart. Sort of like a zipper. Jarod Kintz
• The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees. H. White
• Include me out. Samuel Goldwyn
• Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso. Hugh Mills
• We are all in this together, by ourselves. Lily Tomlin
• A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours. Dean W.R. Inge
• On this team we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.  Lou Holtz
• Golden anniversary: Fifty years united in holy deadlock. Ted Cook

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