Many / One

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1		"Every movement, even the slightest, exerts an effect ultimately upon the whole world."

2		"Justice represents the crown of Man's moral development – what might be called 'wisdom become flesh'."

3		"Oneness or unity encompasses all numbers, and all numbers should be reduced back to unity."

4		"Faith is not simply a matter of holding something to be true but of experiencing the breath of eternal God, bestowing being."

5		"It is only in love that freedom is perfect."

6		"Impulses of will are immersed in the streams of world-will-energy and are 'plugged in' to them."

7		"The Creator is simultaneously knowing, the knower, and that which is known. In fact, His manner of knowing does not consist in Him directing His thinking to things that are outside of Him; in that He Himself thinks and is knowing. He knows of everything and sees everything which is. Nothing exists that is not one with Him and which does not subsist in His own substance. He is the prototype of every being, and all beings are in Him in their purest and complete form, so that the perfection of created beings actually exists in the mind of that Perfect One." Moses of Cordova, 'Commentary to the Zohar', Pardies Rimmonium, 55a

8		"Love is and remains for all time the sanctuary of freedom."

9		"God…is the center of all selves."

10		"Intuition is the faculty of knowledge which results from instinct that is illumined by reason."

11		"The world of the senses, the kingdoms of nature, testify to the all-pervasive wisdom of God."

12		"As an idea, the resurrection is the realisation that God is divinely generous, that he does not take away again what he has once given and granted, but that his gifts – existence, consciousness, freedom, and creative activity – are valid for all eternity."

13		"God wills it that man may fulfill his earthly experience and task, even when they have been interrupted by death."

14		"The spiritual life of mankind is maintained through the breath of the Spirit…and the great religions of mankind are quite conscious of this fact."

15		"Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE God, transcending the self, the centerpoint of the world."

16		"Love is the self's life element, its substance, and its power of growth."

17		"Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together."

18		"Just as the human being needs the air to breathe for his physical life, so he also has need of breathing in God – through prayer and meditation – for his soul life."

19		"God is not a phenomenon that exists alongside other phenomena. He is the very source of 'selfness', more intimate and more inward than the most intimate and most inward that we know."

20		"The state of the risen Jesus Christ is the goal and the hope of the path of destiny of mankind. It is the most perfect ideal of which one could ever think or dream."

21		"The solemn majesty of the starry heaven proclaims the presence – the all-pervading presence – of the holy Being underlying the universe."

22		"Moral logic, the logic of divine wisdom,…comes about in the human being from the union – or even fusion – of the thinking of head and heart."

23		"Always, in all eternity, there will exist for each and every being a creative work and a field for creative work."

24		""It is impossible for a peaceful and concentrated reader (i.e., for a meditative reader) of the Gospels not to begin to love the person of Jesus Christ, and also not to sense him as a working and actual reality."

25		"Not only Genesis, but also the Bhagavad Gita, speaks of the law of repeated impulses of the divine spirit intervening in order to maintain the level of intensity of the original life-impuse of the world."