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1 "Full of Zeus are all streets and all gathering places, and full are the sea and harbors. Everywhere we all have need of Zeus. For we are also his offspring." Aratus (ca. 315-240 bce), 'Phaenomena, sec. 1 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

2 "God is continuously realizing himself in the whole of creation." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

3 "The Lord is present everywhere throughout the whole earth." Emanuel Swedenborg A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (Samuel M. Warren, compiler)

4 "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)

5 "I myself find it helpful to compare the field aspect of physical reality to the Logos, the Word, the formative principle. The energy aspect of reality, with energy as the principle of flow, change, and activity, is like an aspect of the Spirit. Both come from and relate back to a unifying source." Rupert Sheldrake Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

6 "He is the Source and the measure of the ages. He is the reality beneath time and the eternity behind being. He is the time within which things happen. He is being for whatever is. He is coming-to-be amid whatever happens. From Him who Is come eternity, essence and being, come time, genesis, and becoming. He is the being immanent in and underlying the things which are, however they are." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

7 "God is within all life." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

8 "Because he is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to his creatures' inmost being: 'In him we live and move and have our being.' (Acts 17:28). In the words of St. Augustine, 'God is 'higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self.' (Confessions 3, 6, 11)" Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

9 "The first name of creation is Mother of Us All." Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey (Stephen Levine)

10 "I will sing of well-founded Gaia, Mother of All, eldest of all beings, she feeds all creatures that are in the world, all that go upon the goodly land and all that are in the paths of the sea, and all that fly." Homeric Hymn (7th century bce), The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

11 “God far transcends all intellectual conceptions of dividedness. On the contrary, THAT is, above all, One and One Alone.” Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

12 "God is within everyone, the very thing everyone lives by." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

13 "Our Lord of Light and Love is all." The Light of Love (Patricia Devlin)

14 "Thales affirmed both a single unifying primary substance and a divine omnipresence." The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View (Richard Tarnas)

15 "Everything seems to be full of God's reflex, if we could but see it." Charles Kingsley, novelist The Great Secret (Maurice Maeterlinck)

16 "The Lord lives in the heart of every being. Therefore, He has the consciousness of all living entities." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

17 "God is all. He is not far away in the heaven; He is here. This grass under your feet is He; this bountiful harvest, that blue sky, those roses...you yourself are all one with Him." C. Y. E., anonymous author Cosmic Consciousness (Richard M Bucke)

18 "I believe that the divine is everywhere and exists within even the most intimate details of our lives." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

19 "History [is] a direct and irreversible manifestation of God in the world." Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities (Mircea Eliade)

20 "As a sponge is in the ocean and the ocean is in a sponge, so we are in God and He is in us." Rufus Mosely Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

21 "In the depths of the unconscious psyche, the ancient Goddess is arising. She demands recognition and homage….If we grant the Goddess her due, she may compassionately guide us toward transformation." Return of the Goddess (Edward C. Whitmont, MD)

22 "The Light is hidden everywhere; it is in every rock and in every stone." Freemasonry and Its Ancient Mystic Rites (C. W. Leadbeater)

23 "God who created the Cosmic Egg and holds it in the hollow of his hand is also the God flame expanding hour by hour within his very own sons and daughters." Saint Germain on Alchemy (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

24 "But who is God? God is Creator, God is constant birther of the universe, and we are called to be cocreators with God." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

25 "The Goddess has infinite aspects and thousands of names – She is the reality behind many metaphors. She IS reality, the manifest deity, omnipresent in all of life, in each of us." The Spiral Dance, A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (Starhawk (Miriam Simos))

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite