Many / One

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1		"Like the Eastern traditions, it [Sufism] looks beyond appearances to the essential oneness of Being." Kabir Helminski, 'Sufism, A Path to Human Wholeness' The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West (Jay Kinney, editor)

2		"O wonderful mystery! The Father of all things is one; the Word of all things is one; the Holy Spirit is one and the same everywhere." Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215), Theologian The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

3		"That One Alone becomes manifest…as all the exuberant variety and richness of individuality everywhere apparent throughout Nature." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

4		"They who see but One in all the changing manifoldness of this universe, unto them belongs eternal truth: unto none else, unto none else." Katha Upanishad The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins (Evelyn Underhill)

5		“How can we bridge language and prejudice gaps? By understanding, accepting and implementing the highest truth: we are all one.” Questions and Answers on Conversations With God (Neale Donald Walsch)

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

7		"Every man whose heart is no longer shaken by any doubt, knows with certainty that there is no being save only One." Muhammed Shabistari (written 1317) Wisdom for Life (Lynette Evans, editor)

8		"The One Force, the All-Powerful Source of existence and the prime mover of the activities and motions of beings…is inside each being." Amadou Hampate Ba, 'Aspects de la civilisation africaine' The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

9		"One is the Spirit of the living God, blessed be His Name, who lives forever!" 'Sepher Jezireh', the kabalistic Book of Creation Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)

10		"In one, all things are harmonized." Cleanthes (d. 232 bce) In Silence: Why We Pray (Donald Spoto, Ph.D.)

11		"This is the real message of the Bhagavad Gita: in short, temporal life and spiritual values stand in a relation of harmony – one divine life, as the Gita tells us." Swami Prabhavananda (b. 1893), monk of Ramakrishna Mission, 'Vedic Religion and Philosophy' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

12		"In keeping with the Gaia Hypothesis, formulated by English scientist James Lovelock, deep ecologists view the world as a living organism whose many species make up a single breathing entity." As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life (Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal)

13		"I have no longing except for the One." Rumi Understanding Yourself: A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul-Awareness (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

14		“Everything, and every part of everything, participates in the One.” Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

15		"What you do for others the Holy One will do for you." ch. 46, v. 17b Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (Leo W. Dowling)

16		"All individuals are united to the whole; so that we see that the whole is one, and of the one are all things." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

17		"Men and women of many different periods, races, and religions have felt themselves to have entered in varying degrees into a mystical Union in which they knew the Manifold as the One; and they have attempted to recount what they then realised." The Manifold and The One (Agnes Arber)

18		"The rationale behind alchemical theory was based on the notion of primary matter – the belief that the world originated from a single substance." Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind (Anthony Stevens)

19		"Remember, there's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves." A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

20		"The divinity is One reality which, because of our manner of seeing it, appears in different hypostases which are perfect in themselves." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

21		"All living beings are but one being." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

22		"'I' and 'you' are but the lattices in the niches of a lamp, through which the One Light shines." Shabistari (d. 1320), Persian mystic, 'The Secret Rose Garden' The Essence of Sufism (John Baldock)

23		"From the day when we beheld thee, from the day when we heard thy word, our hearts were filled with peace. We believed in thee, Good One, we beheld thy light and shall not forget thee." The Ginza (Mandaean Scripture) Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (Stephan A. Hoeller)

24		"A Greater Mind contains many smaller minds. As I write this I am reminded of the words of the visionary Black Elk as he prayed on the summit of Mt. Harney: 'While I stood there I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shape of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together as one being.'" Joan Halifax, 'Shamanism, Mind, and No-Self' Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)

25		"How truly the Lord is one." Edgar Cayce A Million Years to the Promised Land (Robert W. Krajenke)