Quotes

Time is a stubbornly persistent illusion.  Albert Einstein

Matter is an illusion.  Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Albert Einstein

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.     Albert Einstein                                

For those who are awake, the cosmos is one.   Heraclitus

As a 62 year old businessman who had a near death experience during a cardiac arrest puts it - "One thing I learned was that we are all part of one big, living universe. If we think we can hurt another person or another living thing without hurting ourselves we are sadly mistaken. I look at a forest or a flower or a bird now, and say 'That is me, part of me'. We are connected with all things and if we send love along those connections, then we are happy.    Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe

The goal of the Creator is for each entity to make a conscious free will choice to seek Oneness,  because anyone else forced us to do so.  If we are told what to do and what to believe, then we have learned nothing and we will not make any progress. Perhaps the single most basic realization to make is that we live in a loving Universe. Since we are all One Being, it is foolish for us to hate anyone, because we are only hating an aspect of ourselves.