What is "Namaste"?

Loosely translated, “namaste” means “the spirit in me recognizes spirit in you.” It is, beyond its use as a greeting, an acknowledgement of oneness. It says, “I see you for all you are beneath the flesh, and I welcome your presence.” It isn’t necessary to start greeting all of our peers with “namaste,” but maybe we could all use a little more of this attitude in our lives.

“Naturally then, the mountains, the creatures, the entire non-human world is struggling to make contact with us. The plants we eat or smoke are trying to ask us what we are up to; the animals are signalling to us in our dreams or in forests; the whole Earth is rumbling & straining to let us remember that we are of it, that this planet, the macrocosm is our flesh, that the grasses are our hair, the trees are our hands, the rivers our blood, that the Earth is our real body and that it is alive.”

—David Abram

“When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.”

—Alex Grey

“Just be one with yourself and you will be one with all, at home in the entire universe. Ultimately nothing is mine or yours--everything is ours. ”

—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Existence is the ever expanding amalgamation of an infinite number of experiences rising from an infinite number of perspectives creating an infinite number of variations of the One. Existence and everything in it is holographic in nature in that what appears to be many different things is actually just One thing being experienced from an infinite number of perspectives. The infinite number of perspectives allow the One to experience itself as the infinite possibilities it is. ”

—Sohail Desai
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