Many / One

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1		"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

2		"Symbolically, in the infinite ocean of light, with centre everywhere and with circumference nowhere, there arises a full-orbed sphere of living light, a Logos, and the surface of the sphere is His will to limit Himself that He may become manifest, His veil in which He incloses Himself that within it a universe may take form."

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

4		"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'

5		"The one Life takes on countless limitations, each right in its own place and time."

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

7		"Life is one; happy they who see its presence, and make themselves the channels of its living force."

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

9		"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."

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

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

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

13		"Life is one, it streams out perpetually as the free outpouring of the love of the Logos."

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

15		"The great doctors of the Catholic Church always posit the unfathomable Deity, incomprehensible, infinite, and therefore necessarily but One and partless."

16		"To those who are good to me I am good; and to those who are not good to me I am also good; and thus all get to be good." Tao The Ching

17		"Nothing is real but the one Life that we seek for and love unconsciously under its many veils."

18		"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."

19		"Man remains forever free at the centre."

20		"All are One and are knotted in One, nor are they separated one from another." The Zohar

21		"This Self is the One, and hence is spoken of as the Monad, and this Monad is the outbreathed life of the Logos, containing within itself germinally, or in a state of latency, all the divine powers and attributes."

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

23		"The one who is wise by love rises above all petty differences, and sees all drawing their life from the one source, all as part of his family."

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

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