Like the waters of a river

Like the waters of a river
That in the swift flow of the stream
A great rock divides,
Though our ways seem to have parted
I know thast in the end we shall meet.

(twelfth century Japanese verse)

Constantly regard the universe as one living being

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the co-operating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.. And inasmuch as I am in a manner intimately related to the parts which are of the same kind of myself, I shall do nothing unsocial, but I shall rather direct myself to the things which are the same kind with myself, and I shall turn all my efforts to the common interest, and divert them from the contrary.

from The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius