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1 "The Transcendent is alive and well with or without us and above and beyond our attempts to control it, and it continues to manifest itself throughout our world with surprise, joy, renewed hope, creative freedom, and, above all, compassion." Bettina Gray, preface A Parliament of Souls, In Search of Global Spirituality (Michael Tobias, Jane Morrison, Bettina Gray, editors)

2 "The Divine flows through all of us." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

3 "Brahma is in every atom of the universe." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

4 "This world is Brahma in Brahma, from Brahma….nothing further to be known." Vishnu Purana The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

5 "We often think of God as being 'out there', far away from the world. But it is important to realize that God is also 'in there' – in the deepest recesses of the soul." Jewish Meditation, A Practical Guide (Aryeh Kaplan)

6 "We live in God. That's what we breathe." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

7 "God is everywhere entire." Jacob Boehme Collected Works (Carl Jung)

8 "The Life that is Divine is the core of everything that exists." From the Outer Court to the Inner Sanctum (Annie Besant)

9 "Wisdom is the fundamental building block of the universe, and it is inherent in all parts. In the processes of life it finds its most complex revelation. Wisdom, information, an idea, is the link between the metaphysical Creator and the physical creation. It is the hidden face of God." The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth (Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D.)

10 "God is near you, he is with you, he is within you." Seneca to Lucilius (Gummere translation) Collected Works (Carl Jung)

11 "God is one with all the trees and flowers and weeds that grow along the roadside. God is one with the great mountains of the world and with each tiny grain of sand….God is one with the world and with each thing and person in it." Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God (James Finley)

12 "All evolution came forth from the Divine, and we ourselves are sparks of the Divine flame." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

13 "Having its own origins, educated by no one, without a mother, calm, nameless, having many names, living in fire: that is God." Lactantius (300 ad) The Soul's Religion, Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life (Thomas Moore)

14 "God is 'be-ing' itself." The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View (Richard Tarnas)

15 "The Kosmos is made by God and contained in God….It is God that is the author of all, and encompasses all, and knits all things together." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

16 "The Egyptians believed in One God, who was self-existent, immortal, invisible, eternal, omniscient, almighty." Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life (E. A. Wallis Budge)

17 "Evolution, with all its meandering, unfolds a luminous existence hidden or involved in this universe since its inception." The Future of the Body, Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature (Michael Murphy)

18 "All the great teachings from all the great esoteric traditions speak of an Absolute which is total Love, total Power, and total Knowledge and Wisdom." Riding With the Lion: In Search of Mystical Christianity (Kyriacos C. Markides)

19 "God pervades everything, or, as the old adage goes, 'no place can be void of the Shekhinah.'" The Messianic Idea in Judaism, And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality (Gershom Scholem)

20 "The Creator is simultaneously knowing, the knower, and that which is known. In fact, His manner of knowing does not consist in Him directing His thinking to things that are outside of Him; in that He Himself thinks and is knowing. He knows of everything and sees everything which is. Nothing exists that is not one with Him and which does not subsist in His own substance. He is the prototype of every being, and all beings are in Him in their purest and complete form, so that the perfection of created beings actually exists in the mind of that Perfect One." Moses of Cordova, 'Commentary to the Zohar', Pardies Rimmonium, 55a Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition (Valentin Tomberg)

21 "Whatever sound there is is the speech of the Divine, and all that can be expressed has its origin in this speech." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad The Upanishads, selections translated by Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell (Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell, translators)

22 "None of the objects which we perceive with our senses or understand with our mind truly exist in themselves, with exception of that supreme being which is the cause of all others." St. Gregory of Nyssa The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

23 "Brahma IS this universe itself." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

24 "This being (God) is life itself, light, wisdom, goodness, eternal blessedness and blessed eternity; and it is everywhere and always." St. Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033), Archbishop and philosopher The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

25 "The incarnational aspect of Christianity reminds us that all of life is full of God. God is in all." A Tree Full of Angels (Macrina Wiederkehr)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite