Many / One

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1		"Sacred living is rooted in the source of wholeness and spreads outward as the flower from the stem." Mandala (Jose and Miriam Arguelles)

2		"The great law of Unity governs the universe." Louis Charpentier, 'The Mysteries of the Cathedral of Chartres' Divine Light and Love (Peter Roche deCoppens)

3		"Once we accept that everything exists in relationship to everything else, we learn to be respectful." Stone Age Wisdom, The Healing Principles of Shamanism (Tom Crockett)

4		"If I put a person on a pedestal, I feel separated and somehow less than him or her. Likewise, if I look down on someone, for whatever reason, I separate myself. It is possible to see others on the same level, not looking up or down. When I do this I can see others as equally valuable parts of the whole fabric of reality of which we are all a tiny part." Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

5		"Relation is the essence of everything that is." Meister Eckhart The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

6		"We are beginning to truly understand and appreciate that we are all connected, that we are all part of a whole. New physics teaches us what mystics have known for millennia: that ultimately everything is connected in a unified field and that the natural drift of the universe is toward wholeness. In Hinduism, we find the story of Indra's net. Indra, the god of the firmament, has a huge net. Everything in creation hangs on this net as jewels. If one jewel shakes, the entire net and all the jewels shake. We are learning as never before that what we think, what we believe, and what we do shake the entire net of creation." Rosemary Ellen Guiley, 'The Fire of Faith' New Thoughts for a New Millennium (Michael A. Maday, editor)

7		"Wholeness is an archetypal quality – an attribute of Deity. Regardless of the nature of its expression, every activity, quality, or condition is essentially a wholeness. This wholeness is made manifest by a division within itself whereby its nature becomes a mass of innumerable fragments, each of the fractions partaking of the quality resident in the original wholeness, and manifesting it through the wholeness of its own fractional part." Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

8		"In every field we will begin to live constantly in the presence and with the thought of the whole." Building the Earth (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

9		"Because the universe is an immense organic being, all the parts of the world are subject to the same laws." Alchemy, The Medieval Alchemists and their Royal Art (Johannes Fabricius)

10		"Optical holograms demonstrate very clearly the paradoxical relations that can exist between the parts and the whole, including the possibility of retrieving the information about the whole from each of its parts." The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (Stanislav Grof)

11		"Evolution, or order of process, is more than just a paradigm for the biological domain; it is a view of how a totality that hangs together in all of its interactive processes moves. This dynamic totality spans a vast spectrum from the subatomic processes to social and further on to noetic (mental and psychic) processes." Erich Jantsch, 'Evolution and Consciousness: Human Systems in Transition' The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

12		"In some sense or other, this community of the actualities of the world means each happening is a factor in the nature of every other happening….We are in the world and the world is in us." Alfred N. Whitehead, 'Modes of Thought', Macmillan, 1968 Spectrum of Consciousness (Ken Wilber)

13		"This focus of synthesis and unity, this resolution of dualities into greater, more inclusively loving wholes, is fundamental to the New Age." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

14		"In and through community lies the salvation of the world." M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

15		"Psyche, as World Soul…is scattered throughout everything; everything manifests soul's interiority and depth." Thomas Moore, 'The Planets Within' The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West (Jay Kinney, editor)

16		"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts being, in a sense, their origin and justification." A Dictionary of Symbols (J. E. Cirlot)

17		"Current studies in neuroscience that are used to determine cell sociology in groups, cell-neuron connectivity, and plasticity can be discussed in the context of the organization of the universe, which includes its rules of assemblage and behavior. As we read about stellar populations or the special features of a select cluster of galaxies, we can infer things about the populations of nerve cells and ganglia of which we are composed and which compose our worlds of mind. The implication is that knowledge of the brain is not merely supplementary information for studying the cosmos – it is key." Breaking the Mind Barrier (Todd Siler)

18		"Everything in the universe is related to everything else." How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Rudolf Steiner)

19		"All of the universe is a Living System, every aspect and every element of it interdependent upon the other, a giant matrix of interconnected and interweaving waves of energy." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

20		"With the end of the purely rational and dualistic understanding of the world, of Newtonian physics and its logical categories and divisions, we are now beginning to speak in the terms of inter-connectedness, of the web of creation, of the network which brings all things together into a shared unity." Beasts and Saints (Helen Waddell)

21		"Each part, or what appears to be a part, is the Whole." Nature Word (R. A. Schwaller deLubicz)

22		"Events form highly integrated patterns and there is a deep relatedness running through all things." Creative Vision for Art and for Life (Richard Guggenheimer)

23		"An invisible wholeness unites the objects that are given birth in the universe." Larry Dossey, M.D., 'Ancient Messages in Modern Science' American Theosophist, The (Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)

24		"Each part of our planet is related to every other part." A God Within (Rene Dubos)

25		"Let all you do, say, and think be for the good of the whole, to lift and build up the very best in every situation." The Spirit of Findhorn (Eileen Caddy)