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1 "Building genuine connection and deep community among the peoples of the world is the historical task of our generation." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

2 "The instinctive force inherent in the Higher Self does the work, and the driving force of evolution carries all on to perfection." Letters on Occult Meditation (Alice A. Bailey)

3 "No evolutionary future awaits man except in association with all other men. The dreamers of yesterday glimpsed that. And in a sense we see the same thing." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

4 "As Teilhard de Chardin wrote some decades ago, there is a general direction to the transcendent evolutionary process which will evidence itself, above all, in the human realm: we will progress in attaining self-knowledge and in our capacity to situate ourselves in space and time, to the point of becoming conscious of our place and responsibilities in relation to the Universe." Anna Freifeld Lemkow, 'Karmic Process in Science and Society' Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony (V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)

5 "The more I examine myself, the more I discover this psychological truth: that no one lifts his little finger to do the smallest task unless moved, however obscurely, by the conviction that he is contributing infinitesimally (at least indirectly) to the building of something definite – that is to say, to your work, my God." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

6 "The goal of psychological, as of biological development is self-realization….self-realization – to put it in religious or metaphysical terms – amounts to God's incarnation." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

7 "The human heart can go to the length of God….Dark and cold we may be, but this is not winter now….The frozen misery of centuries, cracks, breaks, begins to move….The thunder is the thunder of the float of the flow of the upstart Spring….Thank God our time is now….when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere….Never to leave us 'til we take the longest stride of soul folk ever took….Affairs are now soul-sized….The enterprise is exploration into God….What are you waiting for?....It takes many thousands of years to wake….But will you wake, for pity's sake?" Christopher Fry, 'Sleep of Prisoners' Experiencing the Soul (Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)

8 "The coming together of the planet as one community cannot be stopped." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

9 "Ever onward, ever upward, forever and ever more! Eternal progression is the anthem of evolution." Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge (Zolar)

10 "A New Spirituality is emerging upon the earth, and the idea of Oneness is at its core." What God Wants (Neale Donald Walsch)

11 "I would be in the deepest depression now because of my physical limitations if it were not for my certain knowledge, not faith but knowledge, that my Lord has a purpose, a plan, and an unshakable love for me and every single one of us." The Light of Love (Patricia Devlin)

12 "Support for the concept of interrelatedness is emerging from all sides. This idea, strange and foreign a hundred years ago, is becoming more and more important in modern thought." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

13 "Somehow we are part of a creative destiny, reaching backward and forward to infinity – a destiny that reveals itself…in our striving, in our love, our thought, our appreciation. We are the fruition of a process that stretches back to star dust. We are material in the hands of the Genius of the universe for a still larger destiny that we cannot see in the everlasting rhythm of worlds." John Elof Boodin, (1869-1950), American philosopher, 'Cosmic Evoltuion' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

14 "May the vision that so many mystic masters of all traditions have had, of a future world free of cruelty and horror, where humanity can live in the ultimate happiness of the nature of mind, come, through all our efforts, to be realized." Sogyal Rinpoche, 'TheTibetan Book of Living and Dying' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

15 "Just as we know that there was some kind of paradigm shift from animal consciousness to prehistoric human consciousness, and that human consciousness has gone through stages measured in various ways, such as social awareness, technological development, or basic intelligence…there is yet to come a major paradigm shift toward an entirely new level of awareness. In this advanced state, pain and suffering as we know it will vanish, war will end, our relationships with one another will dramatically be altered, the lion will lie with the lamb, so to speak, and life will be completely different from anything we might imagine." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

16 "We believe that the future will be largely concerned with rediscovering and building our connectedness to each other, to nature and to the unseen spiritual realms, so that we become whole as individuals, as a species, even as a planet." Alex Walker, former Trustee, Findhorn Foundation Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages (Paul Roland)

17 "Recognition of those major spiritual concepts of love, life and relationship have hovered ever in the background of man's thinking and are now on the verge of right expression; recognition of the true brotherhood of man, based on the one divine life, working through the one soul and expressing itself through the one humanity;…it is this developing spiritual attitude which will lead to right human relations and eventual world peace." The Reappearance of the Christ (Alice A. Bailey)

18 "The outcome is fairly clear – providing you regard certain traditional concepts of totality, unity, oneness, creation, and other concepts of integration as being clear." Breaking the Mind Barrier (Todd Siler)

19 "Virtually all that we experience as major life events are part of a destiny in which various souls are linked through countless unseen ways." Edward Hoffman, Ph.D., 'A Kabbalistic View of Karma' Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony (V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)

20 "We are destined by Eternal Providence to become the fullness of ourselves….we shall find perfection in the consummation of the destiny for which we were first conceived." Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

21 "Something within me lies far beyond the ups and down of a busy life, something that represents the ongoing yearning of the human spirit, the yearning for a final return, an unambiguous sense of safety, a lasting home." The Return of the Prodigal Son, A Story of Homecoming (Henri J. M. Nouwen)

22 "The resurrection of Jesus, Buddha's enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, and the deliverance of the Israelites to the promised land are not fairy tales; they are messages from God. Their point is not what we should hope for, but rather what we should consider done, the miracles we can lean on because they were accomplished for all eternity. God has built into the structure of Creation that everything dark will turn light again." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

23 "Beneath the collective surface crust of consciousness, a new paradigm is growing, a paradigm so subtle, albeit pervasive through many lands and cultures, that we do not yet know its name. Is it the no-name organic lure of evolution, the implicate God becoming incarnate in ourselves? Is it a convergence between what is here and what is there on a grand scale, one that will shake the foundations of reality – the big shift itself? Cosmos emerges from chaos, as scientists tell us, and present breakdown may be the plowing of the old order so that the seeds of new becoming can be planted." A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story (Jean Houston)

24 "Heaven has a design and plan far greater than what can be shown to any human being. All that is within the vast scope of creation has a purpose known to God, including each human life." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

25 "In Him, who is the great consciousness, matter acquires consciousness of the distance that separates it from the Supreme Good, and strives to approach the latter. Through man the darkness aspires toward the light, the multiple toward the single." The Great Secret (Maurice Maeterlinck)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite