Many / One

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1		"I believe in the essential unity of all people and for that matter, of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent." Mahatma Gandhi Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

2		"The interplay of the monads would be unintelligible if an aura did not extend from one to another: something, that is, which is peculiar to each one of them and at the same time common to all." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

3		"We simply never know just how far a single act of loving consideration will travel, or the ripple effects it might have on those we have never met." Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God (James Finley)

4		"All things are linked together, and connected one with another in a chain extending from the lowest to the highest; so that we see that they are not many, or rather, that all are one. For inasmuch as all things hang on the One and flow from the One, we think indeed that they are many when we look at them apart, but when we regard them as united, we hold them to be one." Asclepius III:19c Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

5		"It is very significant indeed that physics now sees the whole universe as a web of dynamic interrelationships. When we come to the human person, our lives are also a network of interrelationships." Bede Griffiths Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

6		"That we are all members one of another is certain in the experience of the true self. For my identity, though unique, achieves reality only in relationship to the whole body of mankind. Thus the soul is, unlike the outer personality that encloses it in form, never circumscribed or alone. It is in psychic communion with all other souls and in spiritual communion with God." Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights (Martin Israel)

7		"The liberating inner light of hope burning in an individual's dreams may serve to unite a chain reaction when shared with others." Our Dreaming Mind (Robert L. Van deCastle, Ph.D.)

8		"Photographs taken through electron microscopes and far-ranging telescopes reveal that images from vastly different scales evoke a feeling of similarity and recognition. A spiral nebula that measures hundreds of light-years across looks remarkably similar to something that measures a thousandth of a centimeter, say the eye of a firefly. One can be seen as the fractal resonance of the other, the resonance of the microcosm to the macrocosm." A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story (Jean Houston)

9		"Radiation is transmutation in process of accomplishment." A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (Alice A. Bailey)

10		"Everything is interconnected….not a leaf falls or a child is left to suffer without each of us somehow being affected." Born For Love: Reflections on Loving (Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D.)

11		"The world undergoes a sort of vast 'ontogenesis' (a vast becoming what it is) in which the development of each soul, assisted by the perceptible realities on which it depends, is but a diminished harmonic. Beneath our efforts to put spiritual form into our own lives, the world slowly accumulates, starting with the whole of matter, that which will make of it the Heavenly Jerusalem or the New Earth." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

12		"All things are seen in God as in an intelligible mirror….for each thing is known in so far as its likeness is in the one who knows." Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas (Anton C. Pegis, editor)

13		"Like the pebble thrown into the pond, every act we perform spreads out in ever widening circles, embracing everything in its growing path." Born For Love: Reflections on Loving (Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D.)

14		"No object can influence us by its essence without our being touched by the radiance of the focus of the universe…..In the divine milieu all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

15		"Resonance to the All – the keynote of pure poetry and pure religion." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

16		"No sound, no thought, no movement in any centre of manifesting life, but creates a ripple which flows throughout all realms of being to distances so vast man's comprehension reels before such possibilities. In all creation, life responds to life." Regents of the Seven Spheres (H. K. Challoner)

17		"The greatest things we can have – wisdom, health and power – are all-pervading and cannot be divided. They can only develop and be shared." The Finding of the Third Eye (Vera Stanley Alder)

18		"The part of the world you touch is never the same, nor is the World Entire, for your impact reaches beyond your imagining." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

19		"We've discovered that matter is interconnected and resonates in some mysterious manner throughout the entire universe, and that patterns repeat themselves as though a template were being used over and over again on different scale sizes." The Way of the Explorer, An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds (Dr. Edgar Mitchell, with Dwight Williams)

20		"And after death...you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and also touches thousands of lives." Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Experiencing the Soul (Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)

21		"At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance." Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

22		"Acts of lovingkindness, over the long run, will bring a higher level of consciousness to everyone in the world." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

23		"Ultimately – as quantum physics showed so dramatically – there are no parts at all. What we call a part is merely a pattern in an inseparable web of relationships." The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Fritjof Capra)

24		"One's spiritual influence can be lasting and can carry with it releasing power to those we love." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

25		"There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences. Every action gives rise to a ripple effect, just as a pebble that is tossed into a pond sends out wave after wave, widening and covering more and more space." Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles (Caroline Myss)