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1 “Oneness binds all human beings together.” Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

2 "Divine Wisdom is the basis of our being." The Meaning of Masonry (W. L. Wilmshurst)

3 "All activity which drives the human being forward towards some form of development – physical, emotional, mental, intuitional, social – if it is in advance of his present state is essentially spiritual in nature and is indicative of the livingness of the inner divine entity." Education in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

4 "Each person's destiny is truly integrated into a final beyond-individual and transpersonal connectedness of the one reality." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

5 "The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God." Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda's spiritual teacher Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)

6 "Much of the [early] Church's teachings on the environment stressed the fact that God had created all to be equal and to share the riches of the creation in common." Living Christianity (Martin Palmer)

7 "All Souls are one." From the Outer Court to the Inner Sanctum (Annie Besant)

8 "God has made, of one single stock, all the nations that were to dwell over the whole face of the earth." New Testament, Acts 17: 22-23 The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

9 "However men may differ in disposition and in education, the foundations of human nature are the same in everyone. And every human being can draw from the inexhaustible wellspring of the divine in man's nature." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

10 "True knowledge is implanted in human nature, although its presence is as yet concealed from the soul itself until it is restored to its pristine integrity, in which it will understand very purely the magnitude and beauty of the image fashioned in it, and nothing will shut it off from the things which are fashioned in it, encompassed as it will be by divine light and turned to God, in whom it will contemplate all things perspicuously." John Scotus Eriugena (800?-877?), 'On the Division of Nature' Selections From Medieval Philosophers (Richard McKeon, editor and translator)

11 "Knowledge is an inward state of our own essential being." Lamps of Western Mysticism (Arthur Edward Waite)

12 "Everyone is sacred. You're sacred and I'm sacred. Every time you blink your eye, or I blink my eye, God blinks His eye. God sees through your eyes and my eyes. We are all sacred." Mathew King, Lakota (Native American) elder Seven Paths to God, The Ways of the Mystic (Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.)

13 "'Man, Know Thyself' was the ancient command written above the temple door. If we persevere with this fascinating study we will find that in the form of every human being the universe is presented to us." The Finding of the Third Eye (Vera Stanley Alder)

14 "Each person's smile at a particular moment constitutes a unique event in the history of mankind." A God Within (Rene Dubos)

15 "All the harmonies of creation find their resonance in man." Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944), Russian theologian The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

16 "The oneness men should seek to understand and manifest is that of the individuality of God reflected in man. Oneness in Spirit is ever consecration in the Glory to God in the Highest." The Human Aura (Kuthumi and Djwal Kul)

17 "The destiny of the soul of Man is to be Awakened beyond its own limits." The Enlightenment of the Whole Body (Bubba Free John)

18 "Remark this: that God, when he made man and clothed him in great honor, made it incumbent that he cleave to him so as to be….of single heart, united to the One by the tie of the single-purposed faith which ties all together." 'The Zohar, The Book of Radiance' The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor)

19 "Expansion of consciousness is the hallmark of human evolution. As consciousness expands, taking more and more within its limits, humankind thus rising will increase in power, wisdom and love." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)

20 "Human beings and human societies are not structures that are built or machines that are forged. They are plants that grow and must be tended as such." Winston S. Churchill Living Quotations for Christians (Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)

21 "It is not by chance that we are told 'So God created man in His own image.'" Healing Through Colour (Theo Gimbel)

22 "The Divine Reality is doing, or being, each one of us. We are expressions of God's endless creativity. The Divine is happening all the time, and in all corners of reality." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

23 "My personal view is that man's vital energy or libido is the divine pneuma all right." C. G. Jung: Letters, 1906-1950 (Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)

24 "We have the flame of God's Spirit in us and the mark of His love on our souls." The Light of Love (Patricia Devlin)

25 "When a child is born into the world he is related to every other human being that lives. He finds himself in a constellation of belonging." The National Aboriginal Conference, Canberra The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite