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1 "Spirit is One, but within that essential unity the points of fire, the divine sparks, can be seen and noted." Esoteric Psychology I (Alice A. Bailey)

2 "In essence we are all one." The Path of Transformation, How Healing Ourselves Can Change The World (Shakti Gawain)

3 "'Psyche' and 'matter' are not basically incommensurable, but may perhaps be qualities of one and the same existential being." C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961 (Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)

4 "There is only one fundamental energy or force in the universe." Visions and Prophecies for a New Age (Mark A. Thurston, Ph.D.)

5 "The ever-living life in all lives appears to be many but is really one." The Masks of God (Joseph Campbell)

6 "The experiences that come from shamanism tend to foster a great respect for the universe, based on a feeling of oneness with all forms of life." Michael Harner, interview with Gary Doore Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)

7 "All around you creation reflects the oneness of life." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

8 "Everything seems to interact with everything else at many subtle levels of the universe beyond the purely physical level, and the deeper we penetrate into these other levels, the more do we realize that we are One." William A. Tiller, Preface Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On The Mechanics of Consciousness (Itzhak Bentov)

9 "There is but one divine Will, one divine Life, and one divine Intelligence." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

10 "All leads back to the idea of unity, and of the Oneness of all manifestation." A Treatise on White Magic (Alice A. Bailey)

11 "All that is is holy and all that is is related, for all being in our universe began as one being just before the fireball erupted." A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity (Matthew Fox)

12 "All great spiritual beings are just the pure emanation of that one soul we all share, the one we call the One." Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey (Stephen Levine)

13 "What could exist were it not one?" Plotinus, 'The Good or The One' The Essential Plotinus (Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)

14 "Hail to thee, mighty Lord, all-potent Vishnu! Soul of the universe, unchangeable, holy, eternal, always one in nature." Vishnu Purana The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

15 "Deity is the One Universal SELF." Editors Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

16 "From the lowliest insect to the most perfect sage, there breathes the same Universal Spirit, which assumes innumerable forms." B. K. S. Iyengar, 'Light on Yoga' One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

17 "Plotinus speaks of the One as 'that fountain always on'." Huston Smith Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning (Winifred Gallagher)

18 "All these principles – unity, time, space, motion, polarity – are enfolded in the One." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

19 "Indeed in no being is it possible to discover a nature so independent that it could exist without partaking in that one and only true being." St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

20 “That from which all beings arise and in which they have their origin is the Great One.” Lu Bu Ve, ‘The Spring and Autumn’ The Secret Power of Music (David Tame)

21 "The Eternal and Supreme Being, the One Alone, is the upholder of the whole universe." Max Muller, 'The Origin of Religion' The Great Secret (Maurice Maeterlinck)

22 "The One loves us." The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space (John C. Lilly, M.D.)

23 "There is no separateness in the universe, but only the appearance of separation. The One without a second who alone exists, who is the one Reality, THAT is the Self of each, the One Life." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)

24 "While the consciousness identifies itself with forms, it appears to be multiple; when it identifies itself as life, it stands forth as one." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)

25 "According to all great masters, humankind's greatest goal is to overcome the cosmic illusion that all forms are separate and distinct….to experience ourselves and the universe as the totality of God's Absolute Nature – the One, illumined throughout by cosmic light." Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing (Judith Cornell, Ph.D.)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite