Many / One

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1		"The inseparableness of all living things is as natural as it is inescapable." The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

2		"We must learn about Wisdom from all things. As scripture says, 'Wisdom has made and continues always to adapt everything (Ps. 104:24). It is the cause of the unbreakable accomodation and order of all things and it is forever linking the goals of one set of things with the sources of another and in this fashion it makes a thing of beauty of the unity and the harmony of the whole." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

3		"The harmonious cooperation of all beings arose, not from the orders of a superior authority external to themselves, but from the fact that they were all parts in a hierarchy of wholes forming a cosmic pattern, and what they obeyed were the internal dictates of their own natures. Modern science and the philosophy of organism, with its integrative levels, have come back to this wisdom, fortified by new understanding of cosmic, biological, and social evolution." Joseph Needham, 'Science and Civilization in China' Spectrum of Consciousness (Ken Wilber)

4		"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)

5		"We are all a part of All There Is and there is no real separation." Spirit Guides (Iris Belhayes)

6		"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)

7		"We obviously have close ties to partners, family, and friends, but we are also part of layers and layers of communities." Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

8		“The soul naturally desires the adornment of wholeness.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

9		"Scholastic theologians…tried to express in a reasonable way the unity of all reality grasped by the human intellect." Introduction to Theology (Thomas P. Rausch, editor)

10		"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)

11		"Could it be that the human heart and the world's heart are one in their self-surpassing? We believe that they are. As we grow in love and strength, we become vehicles for the world's growth." The Life We Are Given, A Long-Term Program for Realizing the Potential of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul (George Leonard and Michael Murphy)

12		"The universe exists in each of its individual atoms." H. B., anonymous author Cosmic Consciousness (Richard M Bucke)

13		"Humankind is an integral part of a great and vibrant Whole." Esoteric Healing (Alice A. Bailey)

14		"Any friendship – between two or between a hundred – entails a new emergent unity, where each of the constituent selves is far more in its functional oneness with the rest than it ever was in its apartness." Gregory Vlastos (b. 1909), Canadian professor of philosophy, 'The Religious Way' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

15		"All of life is interconnected." Melvin Morse, M.D. Angels: The Mysterious Messengers (Rex Hauck, editor)

16		"The first of the factors revealing the divine nature and the first of the great psychological aspects of God is the tendency to synthesis." Esoteric Psychology II (Alice A. Bailey)

17		"The ancients believed that the theory of humanity's being made in the image of God was to be understood literally. They maintained that the universe was a great organism not unlike the human body, and that every phase and function of the Universal Body had a correspondence in humanity." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

18		"We may state as a characteristic of modern science that the scheme of isolable units acting in one-way-causality has proved to be insufficient. Hence the appearance, in all fields of science, of notions like wholeness, holistic, organismic, gestalt, etc., which all signify that in the last resort, we must think in terms of systems of elements in mutual interaction." Ludwig von Bertalanffy, 'General Systems Theory', G. Braziller, 1968 Spectrum of Consciousness (Ken Wilber)

19		"The artist achieves by intuition, feeling, and perception of form what the scientist aims at by logic and exploration. In science, as in art, the essential drive is toward seeing whole." Creative Vision for Art and for Life (Richard Guggenheimer)

20		"It is profitable for you to live in an unblameable unity, that you may always have a fellowship with God." The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians, ch. I, v. 17 The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden (various)

21		"I believe we are all part of a universal soul. At some level, we are all the same. We are all connected. Everyone in our drama is a facet of ourselves, and we are a facet of them. We are all facets of the same energy – an energy possessing incredible wisdom and love." Brian Weiss, M.D. Handbook for the Soul (Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield)

22		"The African universe is conceived as a unified spiritual totality….all being within it is organically interrelated and interdependent." Dona Richards, African-American philosopher One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

23		"We have only to go down to the shore and look out at the great rushing in and falling back of the sea to see that the force of a wave is determined by each particle within its mass, and that all these particles cumulate to provide the thrust of the tidal whole." The Sphinx and The Rainbow: Brain, Mind and Future Vision (David Loye)

24		"Within one's own mind is Mind Itself, the native resting-place of everything that is." The Flame and the Light (Hugh I'anson Fausset)

25		"Like a huge fire that is fed by what should normally extinguish it, or like a mighty torrent which is swelled by the very obstacles placed to stem it, so the tension engendered by the encounter between man and God dissolves, bears along and volatilises created things and makes them all, equally, serve the cause of union." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)