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Cosmic Consciousness
Richard M Bucke
This is a classic study in the evolution of the human mind, and is a pioneering work as valuable today as when it was first published in 1901.

1 "The pure in heart see the Lord as the clear mirror reflects the sun." Ramakrishna Paramahansa

2 "Love is blessing, is salvation, is our guardian genius." Plotinus

3 "God and human life…are greater and better than any one has said or can say."

4 "You are a little world formed out of the large one." Jacob Boehme

5 "All is well for ever and ever, for there is no place or time where God is not." C. Y. E., anonymous author

6 "Only one in all the infinite universe! The All-loving, the Perfect One!" C. M. C., anonymous author

7 "God is all. He is not far away in the heaven; He is here. This grass under your feet is He; this bountiful harvest, that blue sky, those roses...you yourself are all one with Him." C. Y. E., anonymous author

8 "God IS the Cosmos."

9 "One IS those objects and things and persons that one perceives (and the whole universe)." Edward Carpenter

10 "All is well, always has been and will always be." C. M. C., anonymous author

11 "That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward, we find at last within ourselves. The kingdom within! The indwelling God!" C. M. C., anonymous author

12 "Lo! The pulsations in all matter, all spirit, throbbing forever – the eternal beats, eternal systole and dyastole of life in things – wherefrom I feel and know that death is not the ending, as we thought, but rather the real beginning – and that nothing ever is or can be lost, nor even die." Walt Whitman, 'Democratic Vistas'

13 "Before and behind births and deaths, the emergence ever-more expanding." Horace Traubel

14 "The universal scheme is woven in one piece."

15 "What joy when I saw there was no break in the chain – not a link left out – everything in its place and time. Worlds, systems, all blended in one harmonious whole, Universal life, synonymous with universal love!" C. M. C., anonymous author

16 "There is in man a divine consciousness." Edward Carpenter, 'Civilization, Its Cause and Cure'

17 "The justice of God sees – in that is everything." Honore deBalzac, 'Louis Lambert'

18 "The consciousness of the Deity and of the Cosmos [are] the same thing."

19 "I have never really doubted for a moment that an Infinite Wisdom and Love DOES encircle all our lives." J. W. W., anonymous author

20 "That infinite ocean [is] the eternal love, the soul of nature and all one endless smile!" C. M. C., anonymous author

21 "The universe exists in each of its individual atoms." H. B., anonymous author

22 "All the great seers teach that God in himself is infinite love – that his manifestation, form or body is infinite wisdom – that divine love is the self-subsisting life of the universe."

23 "In Cosmic Consciousness there is no condemnation, no sin, no evil, no death. This may be a hard saying, but it is true."

24 "The true quality of the soul is that of space, by which it is at rest, everywhere." Edward Carpenter, 'Civilization, Its Cause and Cure'

25 "The wise man recognizes the idea of the good within him." Plotinus

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite