Many / One

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1		"The life of the Logos abiding in each form is its central, controlling, and directing energy."

2		"The eternal Existence is proclaimed in the Chhandogyopanishad as 'One only, without a second.'"

3		"One nourishes many sides, thus All is One." The Zohar, Isaac Myer's translation

4		"The One underlies all the diversities of external nature."

5		"We are one in our origin, one in the method of our evolution, one in our goal."

6		"As a magnet has its magnetic field, an area within which all its forces play, larger or smaller according to its strength, so has every man a field of influence within which play the forces he emits, and these forces work in curves that return to their forthsender, that re-enter the centre whence they emerged."

7		"The Self is a living beam of the one Light and Life of the universe."

8		"Light everywhere meets with light; since everything contains all things in itself and again sees all things in another. So that all things are everywhere and all is all. Each thing likewise is everything." Plotinus, quoted in G. R. S. Mead's introduction to Taylor's 'Plotinus'

9		"Nothing can exist in which the Deity is not immanent…the Soul is present in the divine Idea."

10		"Pure love brought the universe into being, pure love maintains it, pure love draws it upwards towards perfection, towards bliss."

11		"Striking is the resemblance – or more correctly the identity – of the doctrine of the One in the Upanishads and the Eleatic school. Xenophanes' teaching of the unity of God and the Kosmos and of the changelessness of the One, and even more that of Parmenides, who held that reality is ascribable only to the One unborn, indestructible and omnipresent,….these doctrines are completely identical with the essential contents of the Upanishads and of the Vedantic philosophy which springs from them."

12		"Man remains forever free at the centre."

13		"The One is the perfect chord of Being, of infinite melodious concords, all turned to a single note, in which Life and Wisdom and Bliss are blended into one keynote of Existence."

14		"Man is a dignified, immortal being, evolving towards a divinely glorious end."

15		"All things live in rhythmical vibrations, all seek the harmonious and are repelled by dissonance."

16		"God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him."

17		"The human soul is the image of the Universal Mind."

18		"The Founders of the great religions are members of the one Brotherhood."

19		"Those who learn the truth about their own nature become free."

20		"The one Breath of the whole universe, I know that mighty Spirit, the shining sun beyond the darkness….I know Him the unfading, the ancient, the Soul of all, omnipresent by His nature." Shvetash-vataropanishad, iii, 8, 21

21		"The One Self is in all."

22		"Until man has found the real Self, his own unreality makes him subject to illusions."

23		"Strength and calm and wisdom come to those who behold with opened eyes the glory of the Good Law."

24		"Man in his inner Self is one with the Self of the universe."

25		"It is infolded Deity that is the guarantee of humanity's final triumph; this is the hidden motive power that makes evolution at once possible and inevitable, the upward-lifting force that slowly overcomes every obstacle and every difficulty."