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1 "The cosmos is ensouled….It is in The Soul, which bears it up, and shares in it wholly." Plotinus, 'The Soul' The Essential Plotinus (Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)

2 "We are now beginning to see continual cooperation and mutual dependence among all life forms as central aspects of evolution." The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Fritjof Capra)

3 "Human nature mirrors outer nature." A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

4 "For He would not have brought on any man what He has brought, if it were not useful for the whole." Marcus Aurelius (121-180) Wisdom for Life (Lynette Evans, editor)

5 "All of creation is interconnected and interdependent. There is no subject or object, for each arises simultaneously with the other and cannot exist on its own." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

6 "Everything that happens, happens in the same 'one world' and is a part of it. For this reason events must possess an a priori aspect of unity." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

7 “All of us are related to everything else, to the elements, to all the animal life. We’re all connected to the tree of life, too – you name it. We’re all the same….We’re part of everything here on Earth, and we’re part of the moon, sun, and stars.” Corbin Harney Hidden Wisdom (Richard Smoley and Jay Kinney)

8 "Underlying the evident multiplicity and diversity of beings, there is also a subtle unity. All these things, be they mineral, animal, or vegetable, be they plants, men, or merely atoms, are somehow linked together by a common bond of being." Introductory Metaphysics (Avery R. Dulles, James M. Demske, Robert J. O'Connell)

9 "The earth is honey for all beings; all beings are honey for the earth also -…It is the self, the immortal, Brahman, all. Just as all the spokes of a cartwheel are fixed in the nave and the circumference, so are all beings fitted in the self, which is without before or after, or inside or outside, the knower of all." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, II, 5 The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

10 "The inner Child in you connects you to the inner Child within everyone else." Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (Caroline Myss)

11 "Ancient psychologists taught that our own souls are inseparable from the world's soul, and that both are found in all the many things that make up nature and culture." Care of the Soul (Thomas Moore)

12 "We are opening our senses to the web of relationships, the deep ecology, in which we have our being. Like our primordial ancestors, we begin again to see the world as our body and (whether we say the word or not) as sacred." Joanna Macy, Ph.D., 'The Great Turning' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

13 "God has arranged all things in the world in consideration of everything else." Hildegard of Bingen Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

14 "Every monad reflects every other. Every monad is a living mirror of the Universe within its own sphere." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

15 "The substantial ONE and the created MANY fuse without confusion in a WHOLE." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

16 "God wills the interdependence of creatures. The sun and the moon, the cedar and the little flower, the eagle and the sparrow: the spectacle of their countless diversities . . .tells us that no creature is self-sufficient. Creatures exist only in dependence on each other, to complete each other, in the service of each other." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

17 "Nothing exists in isolation; the whole universe vibrates with interconnecting aliveness and integrating unity." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

18 "Each theory may have evolved from a unique angle of analysis, but ultimately our theories form from - and refer to - a sort of unified, collective mind." Breaking the Mind Barrier (Todd Siler)

19 "There is in the universe only one single individuality (one single monad), that of the whole." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

20 "A human being is a part of the whole called the 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all its beauty." Albert Einstein Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

21 "The essential structure of the cosmic whole [is] an all-encompassing, self-coherent system, which is self-adjusting, self-regulating and self-manifesting." Haridas Chaudhuri, 'The Meaning of Karma in Integral Philosophy' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

22 "Everywhere in the cosmos archaic man recognizes a source of the sacred, that any fragment of the cosmos can give rise to a hierophany." Shamanism, Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Mircea Eliade)

23 "Nature and its numberless cycles might be compared to a great symphony with each cycle having its unique place in the ongoing rhythm of the whole." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

24 "Each fleeting moment can be seen as an integrated whole of which we are a part." Laurence J. Bendit, 'Karma and Cosmos' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

25 "The ancient metaphor of Indra's net and the modern formulations of quantum physics remind us that we are all woven together." The Search for the Beloved (Jean Houston)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite