Many / One

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1		"The forward roll of the cosmogonic round precipitates the One into the many."

2		"Forces are working in the present world for unification, not in the name of some ecclesiastical or political empire, but in the sense of human mutual understanding."

3		"Since the Godhead is immanent in all, He will make Himself known through any object profoundly regarded."

4		"This world IS Nirvana….'This our worldly life is an activity of Nirvana itself, not the slightest distinction exists between them.' Nagarjuna, 'Madhyamika Shastra'

5		"In myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind."

6		"Dr. Jung points out that he has borrowed his term 'archetype' from classic sources: Cicero, Pliny, the Corpus Hermeticum, Augustine, etc. ('Psychology and Religion', par. 89). Bastian notes the correspondence of his own theory of 'Elementary Ideas' with the Stoic concept of the 'Logoi spermatikoi'. The tradition of the 'subjectively known forms' (Sanskrit: antarjneyarupa) is, in fact, coextensive with the tradition of myth, and is the key to the understanding and use of mythological images."

7		"Peace is at the heart of all because…Boundless Love includes, regards, and dwells within (without exception) every sentient being."

8		"The way to become human is to learn to recognize the lineaments of God in all of the wonderful modulations of the face of man."

9		"Just as the figments of a dream derive from the life energy of one dreamer, representing only fluid splittings and complications of that single force, so do all the forms of all the worlds, whether terrestrial or divine, reflect the universal force of a single inscrutable mystery: the power that constructs the atom and controls the orbits of the stars."

10		"Through all, the transcendent force…lives in all, in all is wonderful, and is worthy, in all, of our profound obeisance."

11		"Oh, Lord of the Universe, I will sing Thee a song. Where canst Thou be found, and where canst Thou not be found? Where I pass – there art Thou. Where I remain – there, too, Thou art. Thou, Thou, and only Thou." Leon Stein, 'Hassidic Music'

12		"The old teachers knew what they were saying. Once we have learned to read again their symbolic language, it requires no more than the talent of an anthologist to let their teaching be heard."

13		"Any blade of grass may assume, in myth, the figure of the savior and conduct the questing wanderer into the sanctum sanctorum of his own heart."

14		"The energy behind the elemental pair of opposites, fire and water, is one and the same."

15		"Withersoever ye turn, there is the Presence of Allah." Koran, 2:115

16		"We live not in this physique only, but in all bodies, all physiques of the world."

17		"The distinction between eternity and time is only apparent – made, perforce, by the rational mind, but dissolved in the perfect knowledge of the mind that has transcended the pairs of opposites."

18		"Protective power is always and ever present within the sanctuary of the heart and even immanent within, or just behind, the unfamiliar features of the world. One has only to know and trust, and the ageless guardians will appear."

19		"The beautiful sound of eternity is heard by the pure mind throughout creation, and therefore within itself."

20		"The hearth in the home, the altar in the temple, is the hub of the wheel of the earth, the womb of the Universal Mother whose fire is the fire of life."

21		"We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva."

22		"Universal heroes – Mohammed, Jesus, Gautama Buddha – bring a message for the entire world."

23		"Since the Deity is immanent in all things, all things are to be regarded as divine."

24		"It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward."

25		"Him on whom the sky, the earth, and the atmosphere are woven, and the mind, together with all the life-breaths, Him alone know as the one Soul. Other words dismiss. He is the bridge to immortality." Mundaka Upanishad, 2. 2. 5