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1 "Ultimately, it does not really matter in which manner we establish our God-connection, whether that be as a Christian, Hindu, Jew or Athiest. All of these approaches will lead to the same end point." Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era (Meredith L. Young)

2 "Though there is only ONE truth it speaks in many tongues." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

3 "Good traditions of all ages must inspire the achievement of world peace." Buddhism and Psychotherapy, The Healing of Heart Doctrine (Manly P. Hall)

4 "Truths more than mortal, which began in the beginning, and belong to every nature – these indeed reign in our world, are fixed and strong." Euripides (484-406 bce), Greek dramatist, 'The Bacchae' The Essential Gay Mystics (Andrew Harvey, Editor)

5 "Everywhere in the world the self-same Ancient Wisdom can be traced…And everywhere in the world at present are the signs of the re-emergence of that Wisdom back into the light of day." The Finding of the Third Eye (Vera Stanley Alder)

6 "However far back we may go in the history of philosophy and religions, the idea of a whole in process of formation has always been the pole with a magnetic attraction for the loftiest minds and the finest souls." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

7 "The living water never ceased to flow. No doubt many of those through whom it passed are unknown to us. But enough are known, through their lives and their writing, to enable us to establish the continuance and ever richer, deeper growth of the life-force at work within humanity: the development of the new 'seed' within the world, destined to serve the interests of the Divine Plan." The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins (Evelyn Underhill)

8 "Who can study carefully the ancient religious and cosmogonic myths without perceiving that this striking similitude of conceptions, in their esoteric spirit, is the result of no mere coincidence, but manifests a concurrent design? It shows that already in those ages which are shut out from our sight by the impenetrable mist of tradition, human religious thought developed in uniform sympathy in every portion of the globe." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)

9 "Prophets and apostles, evangelists and saints, speak to us with voices that never die." Cardinal Manning, 'The Eternal Priesthood' (19th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

10 "A desire for the consolations of a spiritual life transcends institutional, historical, and dogmatic structures, and belongs to human nature itself." Omens of Millennium (Harold Bloom)

11 "We must above all develop our perception and appreciation of the great universal realities, feed our sense of the world and our sense of humanity." The Vision of the Past (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

12 "When new religions begin, they do not really invent new terms or ideas ex nihilo, out of nothing. Instead they typically borrow from other religions and from the culture around them, editing, adding, synthesizing ideas, and adjusting language until new creative insights emerge clearly." Introduction to Theology (Thomas P. Rausch, editor)

13 "All symbolist traditions, both western and oriental, spring from one common source." A Dictionary of Symbols (J. E. Cirlot)

14 "All the great seers teach that God in himself is infinite love – that his manifestation, form or body is infinite wisdom – that divine love is the self-subsisting life of the universe." Cosmic Consciousness (Richard M Bucke)

15 "The compass and square produce perfect circles and squares. By the sages, the human relations are perfectly exhibited." Mencius (372-289 bce), 'Works', bk. IV, 1:2.1 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

16 "Fortunately, we have proof that the spirit always renews its strength in the fact that the essential teaching of the initiations is handed on from generation to generation. Ever and again there are human beings who understand what it means that God is their father. The equal balance of the flesh and the spirit is not lost to the world." Carl G. Jung (1875-1961), 'Freud and Psychoanalysis' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

17 "The various religions are but different languages through which God speaks to the human heart. 'Truth is one; sages call it by different names.' [the Vedas]" The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

18 "The perennial philosophy repeatedly declares that the realization of our essential oneness is not reserved for a select few. Because the Self is common to everyone, we all have the potential to be aware of our real inner natures." The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness (Peter Russell)

19 "The testimony of the mystics of all time is so vast that it now in itself constitutes a body of proven facts and cannot be gainsaid." The Labours of Hercules (Alice A. Bailey)

20 "If we really contemplate the course of human evolution, we are bound to say that however overbearing the opposition, the misunderstandings, the slanders that oppose the truth, the truth will find its own way through the narrowest cracks in the rocks of human evolution, however great the pressure from the rocks may be." Reincarnation and Immortality (Rudolf Steiner)

21 "Whether they are Syrian, Greek, Egyptian or Hindu, the writers of the sacred books seem to me as men who had all gazed upon the same august vision and reported of the same divinity." George W. Russell (1867-1935), Irish author, 'The Candle of Vision' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

22 "When we examine the sacred books of various religions and the original sayings of the world's greatest teachers, we are able to perceive a singular uniformity." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

23 "In the heart and roots of each religion, one can find God, the Source and Essence of all, acting by various means but with the same fundamental purpose – to bring about the incarnation, evolution, actualization, and redemption of human beings in this earthly life." Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity (Peter Roche deCoppens)

24 "A survey of the great religions of the world shows that they hold in common many religious, ethical, and philosophical ideas." Annie Besant, 'The Ancient Wisdom', Theosophical Publishing House 1983, p. 2 The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant)

25 "Creativity is built into the very fabric of the Kosmos. This creativity – Eros is one of its many names – drives the emergence of ever higher and ever wider holons, a drive that shows up, in the interior domains, as an expansion of identity (and morals and consciousness) from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit. And the proof of that seqence is found, not by staring at the physical organism and its environment, but by looking into the subjective and intersubjective domains. But humanity has ALREADY done that very carefully for at least several thousand years." Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy (Ken Wilber)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite