Many / One

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1		"God has poured Himself into the universe."

2		"Moral goodness has its eternal value in itself."

3		"Mankind has descended to the profoundest depths of personal necessity, of physical personality. But just such an egotistic, utilitarian principle had to come sometime, because through it, the ascending course of all human evolution will be facilitated."

4		"Socrates says: 'When the soul, returning into itself, reflects, it goes straight to what is pure and everlasting and immortal.'"

5		"Soul and spirit are indeed revealed in what appears outwardly as matter."

6		"All the individual forms that make their appearances belong to one single whole."

7		"The divine lives in man, but in a human way. It is the force urging man to make himself ever more and more divine."

8		"Every human fellowship is inwardly related to the whole of humanity and to the wider world."

9		"Were the ability to get on with one another not a basic part of human nature, no external laws would be able to implant it in us. It is only because human individuals ARE one in spirit that they can live out their lives side by side."

10		"We cannot think out the concept of man completely without coming upon the free spirit as the purest expression of human nature."

11		"We enter the world as children bearing some quality which is important for the world, for the social life of humanity."

12		"When I observe a stone, a plant, an animal, a man, I should be able to remember that in each of them an eternal reality expresses itself."

13		"The eternal harmony of the Cosmos is in the human soul."

14		"The soul is the mother of the divine. Unconsciously it leads man to the divine, with the inevitability of a natural force."

15		"Christ did not speak only during His time on earth; His utterance continues, and we must continue to listen for it."

16		"When one considers the words, 'Know thyself', in the Greek, they do not mean that you stare into your own inner being, but that you fructify yourself with what streams into you from the spiritual world. 'Know thyself' means: Fructify yourself with the content of the spiritual world!"

17		"The whole world is divine."

18		"Spiritual life embraces everything which in one way or another lifts us out of our solitary egoism and draws us into community with other human beings."

19		"If we look with rational insight more deeply into things, the eternal element in them is revealed to us."

20		"Eternal reality lives in all things."

21		"The most profound idea of Christianity [is] that the Christ is the Spirit of the earth and that the earth is His body or vesture."

22		"Were the ability to get along with one another not a basic part of human nature, no external laws would be able to implant it in us. It is only because human individuals ARE one in spirit that they can live out their lives side by side."

23		"The manifold diversity of the things into which divine unity has been poured aspires towards unity and harmony through love."

24		"The harmony of the world arises from opposites held in tension, as in the lyre and the bow. What depths are hidden in this image! By the harmonizing of divergent forces, unity is attained."

25		"Beings develop. God reveals Himself in their development. The process of evolution is the resurrection of God from the tomb."