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1		"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. Better still is surrender in love, because there follows immediate peace." Bhagavad Gita

2		"My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles and a monastery for Christian monks…and the pilgrim's Ka'ba, and the tablets of the Torah, and the Book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love; whatever way love's camel takes, that is my religion, my faith." Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), Spanish Sufi philosopher

3		"If people can….realize all as one, then people can be companions of heaven." Liu I Ming (b. 1737), Taoist adept

4		"When you are filled with compassion, there is no self to oppose another and no other to stand against oneself." Pirke Avot 2:4 (Rabbinic sayings, 250-275)

5		"Every mystic of every time and tradition has awakened in wonder and rapture to the signs of this eternal Presence and known its mystery as one of relation and love."

6		"The universe, as many mystical traditions tell us, is the 'child' of a sacred marriage between the feminine and masculine forces within the One."

7		"Why not plunge into union with the Great Goddess Kali? Discover your spiritual anxiety to be without the slightest ground." Ramprasad, 18th century Bengali mystic

8		"As great as the infinite space beyond is the space within the lotus of the heart. Both heaven and earth are contained in that inner space, both fire and air, sun and moon, lightning and stars. Whether we know it in this world or know it not, everything is contained in that inner space." Chandogya Upanishad

9		"Whatever we see or think about is the manifestation of the Mother, of the Primordial Energy, the Primal Consciousness." Ramakrishna

10		"Every human being is one with Brahman in his or her Atman – his or her divine self or soul. The aim of human life is to know the Atman consciously and to live the calm, fearless, and selflessly loving life that arises from this knowledge."

11		"The Lord dwells in the hearts of all creatures, and he whirls them round on the wheel of time. Run to him for refuge with all your strength and peace profound will be yours through his grace." Bhagavad Gita

12		"The law of the Supermind is unity fulfilled in diversity." Aurobindo (1872-1950), Hindu mystical philosopher

13		"Let me tell you why the creator made this world of generation. He was good, and….he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be. This is in the truest sense the origin of creation and of the world, as we shall do well in believing on the testimony of wise men. God desired that all things should be good." Plato, 'Timaeus'

14		"A single moment of awakening in this world is eternity in the world to come. The inner peace of the world to come is living in this world with full attention." Pirke Avot 4:22 (Rabbinic sayings, 250-275)

15		"'This is myself and this is another.' – Be free of this bond which encompasses you about, and your own self is thereby released." Saraha, 9th century Buddhist monk and poet

16		"Behind all multiplicity in Hinduism there is always the underlying indivisible and eternal unity of all things."

17		"Love, the Supreme Musician, is always playing in our souls." Rumi

18		"The Soul is not divided, nor does it split up in order to give life to each individual. All things live by the Soul in its entirety; it is all present everywhere." Plotinus (204-270), Greek philosopher, 'Enneads'

19		"Every soul is a daughter of the Godhead." Plotinus (204-270), Greek philosopher, 'Enneads'

20		"Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements. By devotion to this divine spirit within himself, he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness." I Ching, Hexagram 25

21		"The Spirit filled all with his radiance. He is incorporeal and invulnerable, pure and untouched by evil. He is the supreme seer and thinker, immanent and transcendent. He placed all things in the path of Eternity." Isa Upanishad

22		"We are parts of a whole, elements in an universal harmony." Bede Griffiths

23		"I see with eyes open and smile, and behold His beauty everywhere: I utter His Name, and whatever I see, it reminds me of Him; whatever I do, it becomes His worship. The rising and the setting are one to me; all contraditions are solved." Kabir (1440-1518), Indian mystic poet

24		"Seek to know Brahman by 'tapas', by prayer, because Brahman is prayer." Taittiriya Upanishad

25		"Even as a mother watches over and protects her child, her only child, so with a boundless mind should one cherish all living beings, radiating friendliness over the entire world, above, below, and all around without limit. So let everyone cultivate a boundless good will toward the entire world, uncramped, free from ill will or enmity." The Majjhima Nikaya