„The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe—the body—is the soul.“

— Swami Vivekananda

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„Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„Behind all appearances, I divine a struggling essence. I want to merge with it.I feel that behind appearances this struggling essence is also striving to merge with my heart. But the body stands between us and separates us. The mind stands between us and separates us.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.“
— C.G. Jung
„The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.“
— Morihei Ueshiba
„There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?“
— Jean Paul Sartre