Many / One

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1		"All images and experiences of my soul are images and experiences of your soul. This field of psychic reality which is immanent to each transcends the individual differences between us, giving us the common language based on our common patterns of experience. Through our unconscious we all connect." Insearch: Psychology and Religion (James Hillman)

2		"In this mighty living organism that is the Universe there is nothing really dead or absolutely unconscious. On the contrary, like every cell in a living healthy body, every part and every cell in the universe is alive….every part, every particle in it is ensouled, inspirited, by the All-aware, All-feeeling Being that is Atman." J. C. Chatterji, 'The Wisdom of the Vedas' The American Theosophist (various)

3		"Everything in the universe, from fox terriers to tree bark to somebody's red hat to the mind of God is related to everything else." A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story (Jean Houston)

4		"Coherency, affecting lives, forms and substances, is an expression of will and purpose, motivated by love and implemented intelligently in carrying forward the plans through which the Purpose seeks expression." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

5		"We are all part of life and each of us has a responsibility to act from wholeness." To Hear the Angels Sing (Dorothy Maclean)

6		"The Neoplatonists were concerned with a holistic conception of things, a system of interconnected and interacting wholes and its meaning for human beings." Kenneth Stein, 'The Star-Gods of Neoplatonism' The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West (Jay Kinney, editor)

7		"The apparently opposing elements of the physical world in reality are interdependent and make up an integrated whole." Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages (Paul Roland)

8		"As I see it, what really matters are not fascinating details to be memorized by the curious mind, but the gaining of a whole view of cosmic, planetary, and human evolution. It is to be able to 'see' or even feel this evolution, with its interconnecting cycles and subcycles, microcosmic as well as macrocosmic." Occult Preparations for a New Age (Dane Rudhyar)

9		"All is in God and God is in all; all is in all and each is in each." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

10		"The atom, the molecule, the cell, the body, the community, the planet, the solar system – all are in intimate and necessary relation to each other….The greater could not exist without the smaller, nor the smaller without the larger system that shapes it." Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)

11		"The bread we eat is the whole cosmos." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

12		"As the smallest grain of dust is bound up with our entire solar system, drawn along with it in that undivided movement….so all organized beings, from the humblest to the highest, from the first origins of life to the time in which we are, and in all places as in all times, do but evidence a single impulsion." Henri Bergson (1859-1941), professor at College de France A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

13		"The Absolute towards which we are ascending can wear only the face of the whole – a whole that is purified, sublimated, made conscious." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

14		"Now I am moving back….back to the Whole, where I belong….what joy to return….Yes, now I know what I am, what I have been from the beginning, what I always will be….a part of the Whole, the restless part that desires to return, yet lives to seek expression in doing, creating, building, giving, growing, leaving more than it takes, and above all desires to bring back gifts of love to the Whole….the paradox of total unity and the continuity of the part. I know the Whole….I am the Whole….even as a part I am the totality." Robert Monroe, 'The Ultimate Journey' The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (Stanislav Grof)

15		"From the perspective of wholeness all space is sacred: it is up to each of us whether or not this is realized. This is the real meaning of RESPONSE-ability." Keith Critchlow, 'Twelve Criteria for Sacred Architecture' Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

16		"The divine will is the wholeness, the good and the true in all things. Like God, the universal Being, it is manifest in everything." Jean-Pierre deCaussade (1675-1751), French priest and author Devotional Classics (Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors)

17		"The living world consists of a spontaneous cooperation that exists between the smallest and the highest, the greatest and the lowly, between the atoms and the molecules and the conscious, reasoning mind." The Nature of Personal Reality (Jane Roberts)

18		"Classical science has always viewed the state of a system as a whole as merely the result of interaction of its parts. However, the quantum potential stood this view on its ear and indicated that the behavior of parts is actually organized by the whole." Michael Talbot, 'The Holographic Universe', Harper Collins 1991, p. 41 The Alchemy of Healing (Edward C. Whitmont, MD)

19		"All things are located everywhere. Everything is all, and all is each thing; infinite splendour is radiated around. Everything is great, for even the small is great." Plotinus Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

20		"Support for the concept of interrelatedness is emerging from all sides. This idea, strange and foreign a hundred years ago, is becoming more and more important in modern thought." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

21		"At the level of the implicate order, every part of the universe contains the whole universe enfolded within it." The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness (Peter Russell)

22		"In communication, meaning unfolds into the whole community and unfolds from the community into each person. Thus, there is an internal relationship of human beings to each other, and to society as a whole. The explicate form of all this is the structure of society, and the implicate form is the content of the culture, which extends into the consciousness of each person." Science, Order, and Creativity, A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life (David Bohm and F. David Peat)

23		"The alchemists were concerned with nature as a living, divinely infused interrelated totality." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

24		"The whole environment participates in the nature of each of its occasions." Adventures of Ideas (Alfred North Whitehead)

25		"The universe is like a magic hall of mirrors in which the reality of each entity, each Pilgrim, depends on the way he reflects all the other mirrors from a particular angle." Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)