Many / One

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1		"I dwell this moment in the eternal Now that has ever been and will be…I am in the midst of immortal things this moment." Richard Jefferies, 'The Story of My Heart'

2		"This is the truth given age upon age to all men in all lands - the truth at last to be seen of all, in its fullness and purity: Man is to know himself, and...is not only to soar toward, but absolutely attain to heights of being and of beauty hitherto undreamed of, and bringing fairly within his realization a heaven on earth, in true grandeur and happiness." Paul Tyner

3		"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'

4		"Existence is one eternal immensity of infinite existence, acting with infinite force, in an inevitable, infinite, therefore absolutely perfect order, in whose perfection all things and their action must of necessity be included." C. P., anonymous author

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

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

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

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

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

10		"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."

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

12		"God IS the Cosmos."

13		"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

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

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

16		"That there rise in us waves of consciousness from those around us – from the people to which we belong – is certain." Edward Carpenter, 'Civilization, Its Cause and Cure'

17		"In the prison One shall come; and the chains which are stronger than iron, the fetters harder than steel, shall dissolve – you shall go free forever." Edward Carpenter, 'Towards Democracy'

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

19		"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

20		"There is a raying out of all orders of existence, an external emanation from the ineffable One." Plotinus

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

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

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

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

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