Many / One

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

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

3		"The One Self is in all."

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

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

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

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

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

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

10		"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

11		"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."

12		"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."

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

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

15		"A survey of the great religions of the world shows that they hold in common many religious, ethical, and philosophical ideas." Annie Besant, 'The Ancient Wisdom', Theosophical Publishing House 1983, p. 2

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

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

18		"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."

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

20		"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."

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

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

23		"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'

24		"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

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