Many / One

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1		"The current ecology movement is attempting to restore balance by pointing out the interrelatedness of life upon the Earth, insisting upon a holistic vision for survival." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

2		"The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others." Honore de Balzac, 'Seraphita' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

3		"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)

4		"This Cosmos is a Whole, including everything from the very greatest to the most minute." Laurence J. Bendit, 'Karma and Cosmos' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

5		"Our being is enmeshed in endless ways with others and with our environment." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

6		"Bliss is associated with complete Being; it concerns the interior attitude of the Whole." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

7		"Go to the center and know the Whole. Follow this path." Mandala (Jose and Miriam Arguelles)

8		"All things are interconnected and bound together as by an invisible thread." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

9		"When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it….In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It 'inter-is' with everything else in the universe." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

10		"The Soul is not divided, nor does it split up in order to give life to each individual. All things live by the Soul in its entirety; it is all present everywhere." Plotinus (204-270), Greek philosopher, 'Enneads' The Essential Mystics (Andrew Harvey)

11		"Considered in its universality, Intelligence contains all entities as the genus contains all species, as the whole contains all parts." Plotinus The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

12		"Wherever we scratch the phenomenal surface deeply enough, we strike the living water of unity." The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite (Arthur W. Osborn)

13		"Each thing depends on all other things to be. That is interdependence. Nothing can be by itself alone. It has to inter-be with all other things." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

14		"We are intimately a part of the whole. Therefore studying how that whole works must add to the depth of life's experiences." The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth (Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D.)

15		"Past and future are connected…events flow in the Whole where movement at any level of life affects all other levels." Editors Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony (V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)

16		"Every particular is embraced within a whole, and every whole extends beyond itself to other wholes, circles within circles and so on ad infinitum." The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite (Arthur W. Osborn)

17		"The individual is a microcosm, in fact each of us is a replica of the Whole we call the Cosmos." The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite (Arthur W. Osborn)

18		"The perfection of any one thing considered in isolation is an imperfection, for one thing is merely one part of the entire integrity of the universe arising from the assembling together of many singular perfections." Thomas Aquinas, DV, q. 2, a. 2 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

19		"Like the related ideas of 'atman' and 'tao' in the East, the idea of the self is at least in part a product of cognition, grounded neither on faith nor on metaphysical speculation but on the experience that under certain conditions the unconscious spontaneously brings forth an archetypal symbol of wholeness." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

20		"As we look around us and into ourselves, we can see that the universe is not merely a large static association made up of fully formed objects, but a specific whole, with a power of organic development." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

21		"Health is harmony with the world view. Health is an intuitive perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one fabric." Jeanne Achterberg, 'The Shaman: Master Healer in the Imaginary Realm' Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)

22		"I lived in everything; everything entered and lived in me." George Macdonald (1824-1905), 'Lilith' Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

23		"Nothing can exist alone and isolated, but everything partakes in the being of all things. The Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh calls this connection among all things 'interbeing'." The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

24		"The alchemist…knew definitely that as part of the whole he had an image of the whole in himself." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

25		"Souls are not a group of isolated monads…they make up one single whole with the universe." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)