“There are no random acts… We are all connected… You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind…”

“Whenever we judge others, it emanates from our fear, and separation. When you feel separate from everything around you, then you judge it. When you are connected to something, there is no need to judge.”

“Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean,
we can't separate ourselves from one another.
We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.”

“Nothing can be of more importance than to separate prejudice and mistake on the one hand from reason and demonstration on the other.”

“If you like business, you have to like GE. If you like ideas, you have to love GE. This is a place where ideas can flow freely from and through more than 20 separate businesses and more than 300,000 employees. Boundaryless behavior allows ideas to come from anywhere. We formalize our freewheeling style in a series of operating meetings that blend into one another.”

“If you look for an identity you find inequality. If you look for similarities you separate one truth from another.”

“It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”

“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”

“This idea that somebody put into our heads — that companies are somehow these kind of individuated units that are separate from society and don’t have to be paying attention to the communities they’re in — that is incorrect. We need to have a more enlightened view about the role of companies. This company is not somehow separate from everything else. Are we not all connected? Are we not all one? Isn’t that the point?”