Many / One

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1		"Symbol is a very important word in the world's religious and spiritual traditions. The word literally means in Greek 'falls with', suggesting something which bears with it more than itself…..to interact with a symbol, in other words, is to interact with more than the thing itself; it also brings one in touch with another reality."

2		“To know the Buddha is to know that all sentient beings are buddhas; to love Christ is to see Christ in all.”

3		“Love is action based on recognition of the oneness of my life with another’s, that what the other suffers I must suffer, and that what I do for the other I do for myself, since our lives are bound together and share in the same divine nature.”

4		“All jobs provide opportunity to spread good will among fellow-workers and those one meets by a friendly smile and a helping hand.”

5		"One infinite… Reality underlies and unites all that is or can ever be."

6		“The fact that all persons are eternal Pilgrims and expressions of the divine within justifies the importance for the equal treatment of all regardless of race, sex, or creed.”

7		“In their divine essence all humans are equal.”

8		"Love is no more and no less than the ethical expression of oneness."

9		"Changes are not random or purposeless, for they are all under the One Law which runs through all that is."

10		"Compassion and service are the ethical expression of Unity, awarness of the illusive nature of all that seems to separate and differentiate."

11		"Plotinus and the Neoplatonic tradition saw the universe as a chain of being extending from the One, and the One was not only supreme ineffable Reality but also supreme Beauty known in ecstasy."

12		"The atom, the molecule, the cell, the body, the community, the planet, the solar system – all are in intimate and necessary relation to each other….The greater could not exist without the smaller, nor the smaller without the larger system that shapes it."

13		“Despite the trials and frustrations of the passing day, our lives are parts of something tremendously grand and joyous.”

14		“A core of truth lies in all religions.”

15		“The universe is a mirror in which the Absolute – God, if you wish – knows itself.”

16		“The great initiated souls who founded the great religions embodied the same essential truth under many different guises.”

17		"Behind the symbols and languages of the world's manifold religions lies a common pattern of pointers to ultimate truth."

18		“The unity of the universe is its most basic reality.”

19		"Whatever we do of creativity or love is inspired however unconsciously by the divine within."

20		"A human being can never truly exist singly. On overt or subtle levels, he is linked to the destiny of the human race as a whole."

21		"The universe is like a magic hall of mirrors in which the reality of each entity, each Pilgrim, depends on the way he reflects all the other mirrors from a particular angle."

22		“Everything we can do for good, however tiny, will not be lost.”

23		"Growth involves inward transformation and living in accordance with the spirit of the oneness of all being that the truth implies."

24		"All persons have a common origin, and each has a unique role to play in human history and human life; all equally have lessons to learn. On the other hand, each has lessons to teach."

25		"The ultimate unity of all reality and the interaction of all entities with larger environments in spatial and temporal webs, and the inseparability of consciousness from the universe's manifestations, can be arrived at on quite rational grounds and require no 'mystical' modes of knowing."