Many / One

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1		"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."

2		"Pure, absolute and eternal Reality – such is Brahman, and 'thou art That.' Meditate upon this truth within your consciousness."

3		"That Self who is free from impurities, from old age and death, from grief and thirst and hunger, whose desire is true and whose desires come true – that Self is to be sought after and enquired about, that Self is to be realized." The Chandogya Upanishad

4		"Build yourself a spiritual cell, which you can always take with you, and that is the cell of true self-knowledge; you will find there the knowledge of God's goodness to you." St. Catherine of Siena

5		"God in time is grounded in the eternal now of the modeless Godhead. It is in the Godhead that things, lives and minds have their being; it is through God that they have their becoming."

6		"Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many." Shankara

7		"Almighty Love….is stronger than death." John Smith, the Platonist

8		"The Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being is to discover the fact for himself, to find out Who he really is."

9		"The aim and purpose of human life is the unitive knowledge of God."

10		"Take note of this fundamental truth. Everything that works in nature and creature….is the working of God in nature and creature." William Law

11		"Eternity, whose realization is the ultimate good, is a kingdom of heaven within. Thou art That."

12		"The Inner Light is beyond praise and blame; like space it knows no boundaries, yet it is even here, within us, ever retaining its serenity and fulness." Yung-chia Ta-shih

13		"How shall I grasp it? Do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no more grasping is the Self." Panchadasi

14		"As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, protects her son, her only son, so let there be good will without measure between all beings. Let good will without measure prevail in the whole world." Metta Sutta

15		"It is because we don't know Who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal Ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been."

16		"The discovery of Wisdom is the surpassing good. When this is found, all the people will sing." Philo

17		"In spite of everything, 'all will be well' and, in some way, already IS well."

18		"The importance, the indispensable necessity, of self-knowledge has been stressed by the saints and doctors of every one of the great religious traditions."

19		"This identity out of the One into the One and with the One is the source and fountainhead and breaking forth of glowing Love." Meister Eckhart

20		"Science and technology could not exist unless we had faith in the reliability of the universe."

21		“The great fact of God as the First Mover of a universe which partakes of His divinity has always been recognized.”

22		"The Dharma-body (the Absolute) of all the Buddhas enters into my own being. And my own being is found in union with theirs." Yung-chia Ta-shih

23		"Every individual being, from the atom up to the most highly organized of living bodies and the most exalted of finite minds may be thought of as a point where a ray of the primordial Godhead meets one of the differentiated, creaturely emanations of that same Godhead's creative energy."

24		"Only absorption in the loving and knowing of the divine Ground can rid it [the mind] of all fear."

25		"The existence of sentient creatures has a goal and purpose which is ultimately the supreme good of every one of them."