Separation Quotes - Page 2

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

I'm an animal with you," he murmured. "I want to mark you. I want to possess you so completely there's no separation between us.

Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

The fear of separation is all that unites.

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.

I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.

What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.

However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness - where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside - to cosmic consciousness, which is in total harmony with the universe and where none of those feelings exist, then anything is possible.

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.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.