This week’s #WednesdayWisdom is a quote from William Blake on Oneness, as we continue our July series, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
This week’s #WednesdayWisdom comes from Buddha on experiencing the unity of life.
This week’s #WednesdayWisdom comes from Alan Watts, a British-born philosopher best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.
In his worldview—drawing from Hinduism, Chinese philosophy, panentheism, and modern science—Watts asserted “that our conception of ourselves as an ‘ego in a bag of skin’ is a myth; the entities we call the separate ‘things’ are merely aspects of the whole.”
This week’s #WednesdayWisdom comes from John Lennon whose thought is a beautiful reminder of Oneness—that God “is something in all of us.”
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”
— John Lennon
Rev. Gaylon McDowell, a Minister at Christ Universal Temple in Chicago, is the September speaker for Bodhi’s series “Building The Beloved Community.” This is part 3 of his 4-part contribution to the series.