Many / One

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1		"That comprehensive Unity which is the final goal is inextricably involved with the Many." The Manifold and The One (Agnes Arber)

2		"The relation of each to all, through God, is real, objective, existential. It is an eternal relationship which is shared in by every stick and stone and bird and beast and saint and sinner of the universe." Thomas R. Kelly (1893-1941), American philosopher, 'A Testament of Devotion' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

3		"Every single action generated by every life form affects the whole of the universe." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

4		"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)

5		"A breeze is blowing through the human masses; one that draws us all by a sort of living affinity towards the splendid realization of some foreseen unity. Disputed, suspect and often scorned, unitary aspirations in politics, in thought, in mysticism, arise everywhere around us; and because their subject is not what is material and plural but what is spiritual and common to all in each one of us, no force of routine or egoism seems capable of arresting them; irresistibly they infiltrate and gradually dissolve old forms and false barriers." The Vision of the Past (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

6		"Beware of the blindness to the unity that binds us." The Way Things Are (Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)

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

8		"Nature has been forming synergistic systems for billions of years. Holism, the tendency to form whole systems out of separate parts, is the nature of reality." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Discovery of a New Ordering of the Future' New Thoughts for a New Millennium (Michael A. Maday, editor)

9		"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)

10		"Feel part of the whole and so give of your very best to the whole." The Spirit of Findhorn (Eileen Caddy)

11		"The ordered system in which each and all by the supreme Artist's skill are wrought together into a single whole yields a divinely musical harmony, sweet and true." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

12		"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)

13		"It is all intelligently ordered like one great household for the good of the whole, each member having his place, small or large, in the vast design." Introduction On Man In The Universe (Aristotle, edited w/ intro by Louise Ropes Loomis)

14		"In the process of evolution atoms themselves gravitate towards other and greater central points, becoming in their turn electrons. Thus, every form is but an aggregate of smaller lives." The Consciousness of the Atom (Alice A. Bailey)

15		"This knowledge of ourselves as part of a harmonious whole is now dimmed to everyday awareness, but it can be part of a great vision to be reclaimed." A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

16		"The world of the shaman is one of cosmic unity and a sense of love….It is the same world of the Christian mystics of the medieval times. It is the same world of the great Eastern saints." Michael J. Harner The Roots of Consciousness (Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.)

17		"Each life expresses one of nature's emergent potentials that may prove significant for the whole." The Way of the Explorer, An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds (Dr. Edgar Mitchell, with Dwight Williams)

18		"Indeed, as proclaimed by all great religious convictions, a unity characterizes this emergent mind and the basic order of the universe." Karl Pribram, 'What The Fuss Is All About' Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

19		"We must understand that we are all truly part of one whole, that all of creation is, at the deepest level, one consciousness, one intelligence." The Path of Transformation, How Healing Ourselves Can Change The World (Shakti Gawain)

20		"Our intrinsic Unity is experienced once again when we re-member." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

21		"The one ever becomes many and the many are ever reunited with and in the one. This process constitutes wholeness." Beatrice Bruteau, 'The Unknown Goddess' The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)

22		"Beneath the seemingly fractionated nature of existence lies a deeper, powerful idea: that of a unified order." The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth (Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D.)

23		"Things are not independent, clear-cut, definite-boundaried objects….Each one is what it is because there is a principle of oneness which is the essential cause and basis of all. Each is in some way all. That is the nature of being. Nothing IS that is not essentially all." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

24		"The very order of things created by God shows the unity of the world." Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas (Anton C. Pegis, editor)

25		"In the creative process the various units of consciousness are autonomous individuals in their own right, as well as parts of larger wholes and ultimately of the entire cosmic fabric." The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (Stanislav Grof)