Many / One

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1		"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."

2		"The one happiness is the Life, the Light, the Spirit of God, manifested in nature and creature."

3		"Where there is tranquillity, there is neither craving nor aversion, but a steady will to conform to the divine Tao or Logos on every level of existence and a steady awareness of the divine Suchness and what should be one's own relation to it."

4		"The Perennial Philosophy teaches that it is desirable and indeed necessary to know the spiritual Ground of things, not only within the soul, but also outside in the world and beyond world and soul, in its transcendent otherness."

5		"The truth is, of course, that we are all organically related to God, to Nature and to our fellow men."

6		"Every thing, event or thought is a point of intersection between creature and Creator, between a more or less distant manifestation of God and a ray, so to speak, of the unmanifest Godhead; every thing, event or thought can therefore be made the doorway through which a soul may pass out of time into eternity."

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

8		"To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy,….the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground."

9		"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

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

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

12		"In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all is ours." Meister Eckhart

13		"Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all." Srimad Bhagavatam

14		"The ground in which the multifarious and time-bound psyche is rooted is a simple, timeless awareness. By making ourselves pure in heart and poor in spirit we can discover and be identified with this awareness. In the spirit we not only have, but are, the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground." Aldous Huxley

15		"Human individuals possess the momentous power of choosing either selflessness and union with God, or the intensification of separate selfhood."

16		"Pure love is God Himself." St. Catherine of Genoa

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

18		"It is only by becoming Godlike that we can know God – and to become Godlike is to identify ourselves with the divine element which in fact constitutes our essential nature."

19		"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

20		"The ground of the individual soul is akin to, or identical with, the divine Ground of all existence."

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

22		"Love is the motive power of the mind." St. Gregory the Great

23		"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

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

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