Many / One

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1		"Man [is] the source of his own deeper insights. He is also the focus from which he may help order to emerge from chaos through his inner contact with Being or Tao, his true Self – the God within." The Transforming Mind (Laurence and Phoebe Bendit)

2		"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and therefore brothers." Martin Luther King, 'Strength to Love' Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

3		"Our being, living and moving are themselves caused by God. In another sense things are said to be in God, as in the one who knows them, in which sense they are in God through their proper ideas, which in God are not distinct from the divine essence." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica', I, q. 18, a. 4, ad 1 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

4		"Human beings give a home to the divine within them." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

5		"The overall data processing capacity is doubling every three years and if this rate is maintained, the complexity of the world network could approach the order of magnitude of a human brain in the number of its interactive processes or connections. In biological terms it is not unreasonable to conclude that human beings might well be the Earth's way of gaining global consciousness." Unknown Man (Yatri)

6		"To know man, true man, man as a whole, one must know God." Letters to Two Friends: 1926-1952 (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

7		"We are to recognize in this whole universe a reflection magnified of our own most inward nature; so that we are indeed its ears, its eyes, its thinking, and its speech – or, in theological terms, God's ears, God's eyes, God's thinking, and God's Word." Myths To Live By (Joseph Campbell)

8		"Man has been made by God in the image of God. God has fashioned with consummate skill each member of [the human] body; every one of the members is perfectly adapted both for use and for beauty." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

9		"There is something divine in man, which prompts him to look beyond the mere supply of his necessities, and to aim continually at higher objects." A Dictionary of Freemasonry (Robert Macoy)

10		"Each and every individual human soul is infinitely valuable." Heaven, The Heart's Deepest Longing (Peter Kreeft)

11		"Try to see this world and the personalities of men as vehicles for the Divine Presence and the Divine Life, remembering also: All are but parts of one stupendous whole." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

12		"The soul is an emanation of the Divinity, a part of the soul of the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and essayist, Journals for 1830 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

13		"Man has within himself a wonderful capacity to grow and to learn and to share happiness with others." Buddhism and Psychotherapy, The Healing of Heart Doctrine (Manly P. Hall)

14		"The human way is impelled toward the development of love and wisdom." Rediscovering the Angels (Flower A. Newhouse)

15		"When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us." Marcus Aurelius One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

16		"Man, said St. Bernard [of Clairvaux] is 'a capacity for the Infinite.'" The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins (Evelyn Underhill)

17		"Human nature – across all lands and all time – displays a striking consonance. Our similarities as human beings are far more deeply rooted than our differences, especially when we consider the most profound themes that people of all eras and all localities have pondered: our relation to the planet we share; to the earth we walk upon and its fruits that sustain us; to the limitless cosmos that we observe in the great dome of sky above us; to the mysteries that confound us as a species; to the fears and exaltations that unite us." The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

18		"Races, peoples and nations consolidate one another and complete one another by mutual fecundation." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

19		"All mankind is harnessed into a coordinated system." Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change (Richard Wilhelm)

20		"To the clear-seeing, Humanity is One Family, eternally transcending geographical demarcations, national limitations, and every fettering concept born of the un-enlightened mind." The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

21		"The human soul is our link to the transcendent. It knows the meaning of 'the Lord is One.' It realizes that there is a unity that pervades all existence and from which all existence is composed." The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth (Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D.)

22		"It is only our ignorance which deludes us into separating ourselves from our brothers, and seeing any difference between the Light in one and the Light in another." Reincarnation (Annie Besant)

23		"The first essential is that the human units shall draw closer together, not merely under the pressure of external forces, or solely by the performance of material acts, but directly, centre to centre, through internal attraction. Not through coercion, or enslavement to a common task, but through unanimity in a common spirit. The construction of molecules ensues through atomic affinity. Similarly, on a higher level, it is through sympathy, and this alone, that the human elements in a personalized universe may hope to rise to the level of a higher synthesis." Let Me Explain (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

24		"Human beings are part of the cosmic flow, linked to an ever-expanding network of relationships." Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

25		"This triple sheath (body, soul and spirit) is the Holy Grail, the cup which is the receiver and container of the life of God." The Light of the Soul (Alice A. Bailey)