Many / One

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1		"If a spiritual principle is omnipresent at all times, then no object can ever be moved so that it either approaches closer to or retires farther from spirit; for spirit has its center everywhere and its circumference nowhere."

2		“The establishment of the mind in wholes (unities) is essential to right thinking.”

3		“Humanity possesses the power to interpret the whole and can actually come to realize its kinship with all.”

4		"The new message is the gospel of identity. It is not an effort to unite lives in a common interest, but a recognition of the fact that all forms are but manifestations of one indivisible agent….Indissoluble unity is fundamental throughout the universe."

5		“When we adore the God of harmony, we shall know the inner mystery of life.”

6		“Perfect rhythms stream continually from the splendor of Abiding Destiny.”

7		“All things are one in essence.”

8		“God is all there is….God is the heavens and the earth, and all the creatures that inhabit them.” Anonymous East Indian sage

9		“Think of religion as the universal adoration of creative principles common to all humanity.”

10		“In the midst of this ever-changing scene is an intangible but all-pervading and inclusive permanence – the divine Reality, the Self, the perfect Wholeness.”

11		“Every human soul is innately divine.”

12		“Let us look at the world through the eyes of those dreamers who have dared to believe that the good in human nature would ultimately blossom forth and regenerate the entire social system.”

13		“That sages, widely separated geographically and with diverse environments and temperaments, should arrive at the same general conclusions attests the accuracy of their findings.”

14		“He who becomes luminous shines not with a separate light but rather is merged with the one light whose radiance is diffused throughout all worlds.”

15		"Glory to the unchangeable, holy, eternal, supreme Vishnu, of one universal nature….Glory to the supreme Vishnu, the cause of the creation, existence, and the end of this world; who is the root of the world and who consists of the world." The Vishnu Purana

16		“Man is eternally bound by his innate Reality to the Absolute, which is the fullness of Reality.”

17		“There is but one spirit in the universe….there is but one consciousness.”

18		"The whole partakes of the attributes of the parts in fullness and perfect harmony. Hence the whole is the master of its parts, which are powerless to force their fragmentary agencies upon the structure of wholeness itself."

19		"Mankind may be considered as a vast organism with one Spirit or Self manifesting through an infinite number of organisms."

20		“As each age comes into manifestation it brings with it a definite philosophic revelation designed to solve the problems peculiar to that age.”

21		"Man is as surely clothed in the garments of virtue as he is in the garments of the physical; they are vehicles of his expression no less real than are the members formed of bone, flesh, or sinew."

22		“All things subsist in all things.”

23		“A growing tree increases from a single shoot to a miracle of branches and foliage, yet nowhere is there any inconsistency or contradiction in the process…From the first quickening of its seed the tree moves inevitably toward a single end. This perfect cooperation of parts demonstrates the exactness of the power that willed it into being.”

24		“If learning does not teach us to love, we learn without understanding.”

25		"Until we are everything that we in our ignorance believe surrounds us, there is no complete consciousness. We may study the star intellectually, but we have never attained consciousness until we are the star, the stone, the heavens, and the earth. When our consciousness is perfect we extend from the heights of height to the depths of depth; we permeate the whole nature of existence; we are in everything, we are through everything, we are the whole nature of everything."