“It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.”
“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”
“We are the poem, his poem says, that emerges from the unity of the body and the mind. That fragile unity--this brief parenthesis of being--is all we have. Celebrate it.”
“All things resist destruction, according to their capacity. Rocks, pebbles, diamonds. Unity is instinctive to being.”
“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.”
“I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.”