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1 "All men of wisdom have one religion; they all have one caste; they all behold the face of the One!" Dadu, 16th century Indian saint-poet One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

2 "All lines gather into One. Let the soul realize the One in Many." A Treatise on White Magic (Alice A. Bailey)

3 "There is only one Witness, one Self, throughout the universe. It is hidden in all living things, men and animals and plants; it pervades all creation. In every thing that has consciousness it is the Self; it watches over all operations, it overshadows all creatures, it moves in the depths of our hearts." The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs (Edward Carpenter)

4 "God is Love. Love is One. One is All." Mysticism and Ecumenism (Robley Edward Whitson)

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 "On innate divinity is the brotherhood of all people based – one life, one glory which shall be revealed, and one divine relationship." The Reappearance of the Christ (Alice A. Bailey)

7 "The universe and I came into being together, and I, and all things therein, are One." Chuang-Tzu The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions (August Karl Reischauer)

8 "Consciousness is the ground of being; it is the one and only, the absolute." Amit Goswami The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

9 "Essentially, our greatest hope has already been realized. Heaven is here and now, in our capacity to realize our oneness." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

10 "The ordinary way of dividing the world into subject-object terms is illusory. At bottom, the perceiver and the perceived are one." Larry Dossey, M.D., 'Ancient Messages in Modern Science' American Theosophist, The (Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)

11 "Him on whom the sky, the earth, and the atmosphere are woven, and the mind, together with all the life-breaths, Him alone know as the one Soul. Other words dismiss. He is the bridge to immortality." Mundaka Upanishad, 2. 2. 5 Hero With A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)

12 "There is in reality one Mind….This Mind is the life, intelligence, power, and creativity in the entire universe." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

13 “All the evidence seems to tell us that all of nature does indeed function by virtue of one fundamental force.” The Secret Power of Music (David Tame)

14 "The whole spiritual realm may be described as a kind of Light with the One in repose at its summit, as its King….we are always brought back to God." Plotinus Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)

15 "Behind our apparent individuality and separateness there is one transcendent unity that is consciousness." The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment (Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)

16 "Your real being is everything you are now looking at….you are literally one with all manifestation, one with the universe." Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Ken Wilber)

17 "The glory of that One Reality [is] ablaze in the humblest of growing things." The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins (Evelyn Underhill)

18 “Nightmares will begin to give way to day, as the sunshine of wisdom revealing Oneness dawns upon the human mind.” Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

19 “One is all, and by it all, and for it all.” Alchemical saying Arcana Mundi (Georg Luck)

20 "One does not create oneness. One experiences it. Knows it. It already exists." Spirit Guides (Iris Belhayes)

21 "All the breathing, the pulses, the rhythms and movements of the natural world on earth or in astronomical spaces are variations of the one universal pulse, which gives rise to them." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

22 "The universal God is one, yet he is more than one; all things are God; all things are one. By the sweet breaths of God all life is bound in one; so if you touch a fiber of a living thing you send a thrill from center to the outer bounds of life." ch. 28, vs.4-5, Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (Leo W. Dowling)

23 “Lead us, Shepherd of the sheep, reason-gifted, holy One.” Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 ad), head of the Alexandrian catechetic school The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

24 "The Weaver of Oneness wants us to be united with each other – neighbors with neighbors, communities with communities, religions with religions, nations with nations." Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

25 "Every creature reacts to and acts upon its environment, for all is one." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

26 "That which in modern phraseology is referred to as Spirit and Matter, is ONE in eternity as the perpetual cause, and it is…all that is, was, or will be, all that the imagination of man is capable of conceiving." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

27 "In Hermetic philosophy the arcane substance has a 'thousand names', but essentially it consists of the One and Only (i.e., God)." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

28 "When the soul is lifted up in consciousness, by God's grace, it becomes merged….in the Oneness of God." S. Abhayananda On The Love of God (Thomas a' Kempis, edited by S. Abhayananda)

29 "The overall number of inner selves is but one." Ken Wilber, Foreword Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

30 "We are all One, in God." The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space (John C. Lilly, M.D.)

31 "One is the Ineffable, the Unutterable, the eternal source of the fountain, the beginning of the unfolding." The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers (John King)

32 "The One appears to us in the wake of the Multiple, dominating the Multiple, since its essential and formal act is to unite." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

33 "There is within us One who knows the truth." A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

34 "Out of one in all is all." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

35 "There is in existence in the whole Universe only one Spiritual Essence, one Spiritual Being, one Divine Flame – and the Spiritual Self of man is forever at one with that all-inclusive One Alone. This is the one great truth." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

36 "The deepest we can reach into our exploration of the unconscious mind is the layer where man is no longer a distinct individual, but where his mind widens out and merges into the mind of mankind – where we are all one." C. G. Jung, 'The Symbolic Life' Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture (Christina Baldwin)

37 "The Holy Spirit stands at the gate of every man's heart, preparing to initiate him into greater and more lasting joy – the joy of the Eternal One." The Science of the Spoken Word (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

38 "The same elements compose my mind and the world. This situation is the same for every mind and its world, in spite of the unfathomable abundance of cross-references between them. The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one." Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961), 'Why Not Talk Physics?' Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (Ken Wilber, editor)

39 "The One manifests as the Many while never ceasing to be the One." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

40 "The life of a moment and the life of thousands of years, your life and the lives of all creatures seen and unseen, is one." Leo Tolstoy, 'Esarhaddon, King of Assyria' The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

41 “All things are of one.” Senior, ‘De chemia’ Aurora Consurgens (Marie Louise vonFranz)

42 "We are all in extension of the One Life, and we can see peace instead of separation." A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind (Tara Singh)

43 "No matter how different forms may appear, the Life of this universe is One Life." Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

44 "Flow, peak experiences, and what others call mystical experiences are all…characterized by a sense of unity or oneness." The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power (Gregg D. Jacobs, Ph.D.)

45 "The Spirit is the One who 'makes all things new.'" The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

46 "At every level – from the atom and its parts through the myriad forms of life to the farthest stars and galaxies – all is permeated by one Life." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

47 "The universe is one, infinite…There is no proportionate part, nor part at all, which differs from the whole." Giordano Bruno, 'De la Causa', Dialogue 5 Ethics (Benedict Spinoza)

48 "The world is built up of thousands of differing rates of vibrations, all these having their origin in the One original vibration of the mind of the Creator." The Finding of the Third Eye (Vera Stanley Alder)

49 "Nothing is real but the one Life that we seek for and love unconsciously under its many veils." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant)

50 "When one knows Thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many." Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), 'Gitanjali' Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

51 "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)

52 "Long ago, in the Rg-Veda, we find the idea of Purusa (the one great person), the Supreme Reality, which is both transcendent and immanent." The Manifold and The One (Agnes Arber)

53 "All are fulfilled in the One who is." The Second Discourse of Great Seth The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus (Marvin Meyer)

54 "This One is…not merely the Reality of all that is, but also a living and personal Object of Love." Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

55 "Consideration of the good of the collective whole naturally arises from recognizing one's intrinsic link with the One Life." Editors Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony (V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)

56 "Endless, ceaseless, continuous, The One if we try to name it, is lost in nothingness – which yet is filled: for this is the form of the formless, the shape of the shapeless, the look of the invisible….In the unfolding of Tao the unseeable is imaged." Lao-Tse Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)

57 "The multitude of beings are but phases of the one great thought made manifest." ch. 58, v. 17 Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (Leo W. Dowling)

58 "If God is not one, he is not God." Tertullian, Adv. Marc., 1, 3, 5 Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

59 "Beyond all conception, the universal light shines forth. It is the great One, smaller than the smallest, farther than the farthest, nearer than the nearest. The wise know It resting deep within." Mundaka Upanishad The Upanishads, selections translated by Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell (Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell, translators)

60 "God is one, that is to say, in nature there is but one substance." Ethics (Benedict Spinoza)

61 "Considered in its physical, concrete reality, the stuff of the universe cannot divide itself but, as a kind of gigantic 'atom', it forms in its totality…the only real indivisible." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

62 "Live this message of the nonseparation, of the Unity of Life and the Oneness of All Things. Live it in a practical way, not merely in a conceptual way. Allow it to seep into your being at the deepest level, and become a part of your subconscious and immediate response to every life encounter." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

63 "The holy omnipresence of the Divine One [is] in all things." The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

64 "There is only one force which integrates the entire universe in all the myriad forms of manifestation." The Garden of the Golden Flower, The Journey to Spiritual Fulfilment (Longfield Beatty)

65 "Train yourselves to see in everything an expression of the One." The Brotherhood of Angels & of Men (Geoffrey Hodson)

66 "God made a law by which he ordained that all the souls alike should be everlasting, inasmuch as they were all made of one substance." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

67 "Only he to whom all is one, who draws all things to one, and sees all things in one, may enjoy true peace and rest of spirit." Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), American Transcendentalist lecturer and writer A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

68 "ALL that ever was and ever is to be learned is that 'The Lord thy God is one' – ONE….No matter in what clime, under what name, all must come to that as was from the beginning." Edgar Cayce A Million Years to the Promised Land (Robert W. Krajenke)

69 "Everything is to be experienced as an epiphany of the One Holy Power." The Flight of the Wild Gander (Joseph Campbell)

70 "The primordial One may be represented as masculine (as in the case of Brahma), feminine (as in the World Mother}, hermaphrodite (as in the cases of 'I' and Ymir), anthropomorphic (as in most of the above-presented examples), theriomorphic (as in the Persian myth of the dismembered World Ox), botanomorphic (as in the Eddic image of the World Ash, Yggdrasil), simply ovoid (as in the stories of the World Egg), geometrical (as in the Tantric yantras), vocal (as in the cases of the Vedic sacred syllable OM and the Kabbalistic Tetragrammaton), or absolutely transcendent (as in the cases of the Buddhistic Void and the Kantian Ding-an-sich." The Flight of the Wild Gander (Joseph Campbell)

71 "Although You are one, You are spread throughout the sky and the planets and in all space between, O great one." Bhagavad Gita, ch. 11, v. 20 Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

72 "Oneness and unity is an intrinsic quality of the world." Larry Dossey, M.D., 'Ancient Messages in Modern Science' American Theosophist, The (Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)

73 "Beloved ones, you are the Children of the Sun, you are the Children of the One." The Science of the Spoken Word (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

74 "Only One exists." Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)

75 "As you pray, feel a Oneness, a unity in all life where there is no separation, for all is One." The Spirit of Findhorn (Eileen Caddy)

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

77 "God cannot be separated from God and so is separate from nothing at all. God can differentiate Itself in countless ways, which It does as a means of Self-Expression, through which It becomes Self-Conscious. Yet differentiation is not division. Separation does not exist." What God Wants (Neale Donald Walsch)

78 "The One that is all, forever remains: transcendent – beyond all; yet also immanent – within all." The Masks of God (Joseph Campbell)

79 "Despite its denial by man, the fact of oneness remains. From that unity, that one Source, is derived the God-Self of man, the Inner Ruler Immortal. From and through that Immortal Self, Power from the One Source is flowing." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

80 "We are all part of one life, no higher or lower. Praise God forever in the vastness of all life." To Hear the Angels Sing (Dorothy Maclean)

81 “This One Alone is no mere philosophic abstraction, but a Reality.” Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

82 "The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes ['Historical Atlas of World Mythology'] – including that of our contemporary biological view." Historical Atlas of World Mythology, vol. 1, The Way of the Animal Powers (Joseph Campbell)

83 "The story of the unfolding of the divine One is as much a story about psychology as it is about mythology and metaphysics." The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus (Marvin Meyer)

84 "The one and only has many faces." The Spiritual Universe (Fred Alan Wolf, Ph. D.)

85 "There is but one Life permeating all forms." Esoteric Healing (Alice A. Bailey)

86 "All that exists throughout the cosmos is but the temporary, ephemeral effect of the One Life refracted through the screen of objectivity." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

87 "All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. 'We Are All One' is more than a beautiful slogan. It is a precise description of the nature of Ultimate Reality." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

88 "That One is the beginning and end of all." Lamps of Western Mysticism (Arthur Edward Waite)

89 "The atom is, in many ways, seen to behave as much like a wave as a particle. It can perhaps best be regarded as a poorly defined cloud, dependednt for its particular form on the whole environment, including the observing instrument…Both observer and observed are merging and interpenetrating aspects of one whole reality, which is indivisible." Fritjof Capra, 'The Tao of Physics' The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

90 "While the child Bacchus (the Logos) plays with his toys he is seized by the Titans and torn to pieces. Later these pieces are put together and built into a whole…..this, however clumsy it may seem to us, is an allegory which represents the descending of the One to become the many, and the re-union of the many in the One, through suffering and sacrifice." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

91 "The profound fact of oneness not only on Earth but in all creation is becoming more and more evident as knowledge expands outward, and nowhere are to be found any absolute boundary lines or uncrossable barriers between any kingdoms of life. Not even between life and nonlife, nor between body and mind and spirit." Seven Mysteries of Life, An Exploration in Science and Philosophy (Guy Murchie)

92 "There is but one life, without beginning and without ending." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)

93 "As a homogeneous whole, the Universe symbolizes the undivided One Mind." The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

94 "We are one with our earth at every level." Regents of the Seven Spheres (H. K. Challoner)

95 "Beneath all differences there lies concealed the unalterable fact of oneness." Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

96 "The world of existence is only dual in our conception of it. In Reality there is but one World." The Transforming Mind (Laurence and Phoebe Bendit)

97 "Understand and know at last that We Are All One. The human race, and all of Life, is a unified field. It is all One Thing." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

98 "The One bears all things." 'Akathist to the Mother of God', 6th century Byzantine hymn, edited by Patriarch Sergius, 7th century At the Lighting of the Lamps, Hymns of the Ancient Church (John A. McGucklin, compiler)

99 "The oneness of the tiniest unit with the one great informing Life shows the integral beauty of the scheme. The life of the greatest cosmic Lord of Love pulsates in infinitesimal degree in the heart of His tiniest reflection, and for this reason the atom man can likewise say, 'I too am God; His Life is mine." A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (Alice A. Bailey)

100 "In descending to finitude, the singularity of the Infinite splays into multiplicity – the One becomes the many. The parts of the many are virtues, for they retain in lesser degree the signature of the One's perfection." The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition (Huston Smith)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite