Many / One

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1		"In reality, there is but one spirit." Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science (Max Heindel)

2		"Life is one; happy they who see its presence, and make themselves the channels of its living force." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant)

3		"Every existing creature manifests some aspect of the intelligence or power of the Eternal One." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

4		"In reality, there is Mind-only, all inclusive, non-dual, the timeless ground of all temporal phenomena, fusion without confusion, a Reality without duality but not without relations." Spectrum of Consciousness (Ken Wilber)

5		"God is absolute knowledge, absolute wisdom, absolute love. By one thousand names He is known, but is only One." A Book of Angels (Sophy Burnham)

6		"Striking is the resemblance – or more correctly the identity – of the doctrine of the One in the Upanishads and the Eleatic school. Xenophanes' teaching of the unity of God and the Kosmos and of the changelessness of the One, and even more that of Parmenides, who held that reality is ascribable only to the One unborn, indestructible and omnipresent,….these doctrines are completely identical with the essential contents of the Upanishads and of the Vedantic philosophy which springs from them." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant)

7		"The Sacred Scripture teaches, and reason enlightened therein and therefrom by the Lord sees, that God is one." Emanuel Swedenborg A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (Samuel M. Warren, compiler)

8		"Our spirit inherently understands that we are all one – with other people and our universe." Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles (Caroline Myss)

9		"In the prison One shall come; and the chains which are stronger than iron, the fetters harder than steel, shall dissolve – you shall go free forever." Edward Carpenter, 'Towards Democracy' Cosmic Consciousness (Richard M Bucke)

10		"'This is myself and this is another.' – Be free of this bond which encompasses you about, and your own self is thereby released." Saraha, 9th century Buddhist monk and poet The Essential Mystics (Andrew Harvey)

11		"When we mentally identify with the realm of the spirit, we see endless love, unlimited possibility, and the oneness of all things." The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (Marianne Williamson)

12		"We are One Organism by our very nature." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

13		"The One Mind, as Reality, is the Heart which pulsates forever, sending forth purified the blood-streams of existence, and taking them back again; the Great Breath, the Inscrutable Brahman, the Eternally Unveiled Mystery of the Mysteries of Antiquity, the Goal of all Pilgrimages, the End of all Existence." The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

14		"It is seen that all forms are of one substance and all life of one force, and these are co-existent in the nature of the Supreme One." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

15		"True consciousness…embraces all divisions in its own unity. For it is based in an unconditioned Knower who reconciles the Field of Knowing with Himself, since there is nothing which is not a form of His Consciousness." The Flame and the Light (Hugh I'anson Fausset)

16		"When a heart is illumined by true knowledge, it knows that above all these wars of sects and sectarians presides the one indivisible, eternal, all-knowing bliss." Ramakrishna The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

17		"The One Self is in all." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant)

18		"Where is any more misery for him who sees the Oneness in the universe?" Swami Vivekananda, Hindu sage Forbidden Faith: The Gnostic Legacy from the Gospels to The Da Vinci Code (Richard Smoley)

19		"The mystical sense is essentially a feeling for, a presentiment of, the total and final unity of the world, beyond its present sensiby apprehended multiplicity: it is a cosmic sense of 'oneness'." Toward the Future (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

20		"The Self that is here in a person, and the Self that is there in the sun, He is one." Taittiriya Upanishad The Upanishads, selections translated by Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell (Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell, translators)

21		"The one cause – which is the Whole – is what existence is and what we are." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

22		"Both yin and yang have their common origin in an undivided One." The Secret of the Golden Flower (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

23		“All things proceed from the meditation of the One.” Collected Works (Carl Jung)

24		"Love, Wisdom and Power are in reality the One indivisible/undivided Whole which can never be divided or divisive – their atoms chanting as they chart the spheres: 'We are One, We are One, We Are One….'" Saint Germain on Alchemy (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

25		"God is one….He sees as a Whole, perceives as a Whole, hears as a Whole." Xenophanes (570-475 bce), Greek philosopher, fragment The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)