Many / One

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1		“Man is a God-in-the-becoming. This, the ancient sages taught, is his destiny: ‘Ye shall be perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.’ (Matt. 5:48), ‘…look inward; thou art Buddha; become that which you are.’ (H. P. Blavatsky, ‘The Voice of the Silence’).”

2		"Every note and chord of physical experience – sound, light, vitality, emotion, and thought – contributes to the complete harmony."

3		“This is the great call, this is the voice which is never still – namely a call to attain to maximum effectiveness as a member of the human race on behalf of one’s fellowmen and younger brothers of the animal kingdom.”

4		"Our earth and everything upon it…are intimately linked together."

5		"The cause of almost all human destructiveness and sorrow can be traced to absence of the knowledge that division is an error and oneness is the fact concerning human life – indeed all life."

6		"As humanity quite naturally travels the evolutionary pathway, this state of realized oneness will become more easily attained."

7		"The One Life is THAT which is everywhere without limit, ever-existing without beginning or end, and – though words inevitably fail – ever-inclusive, implying that there is nowhere and no time at whch it does not exist."

8		"At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance."

9		“Love may be regarded as potentially the greatest gift which can be either bestowed or received.”

10		“Spiritual light has an interior origin and perpetually shines. It is the radiation from the purest spirit-Self.”

11		“Unity with the One Life in all is the well or spring from which the waters of life are drawn, and active expression of deeply compassionate concern is the natural direction in which that water inevitably flows.”

12		“Humanity is made in God’s image.”

13		"Every experience is valuable; nothing is wasted, even if it appears so, for silently the seed is developing."

14		“All life within all forms is One Life.”

15		"Beneath all differences there lies concealed the unalterable fact of oneness."

16		"Planetary disasters such as wars and personal catastrophies caused by wrong thinking may very justly be diagnosed as inability to perceive intuitively the unity of all forms of embodied life."

17		“Scriptural records as remain and are reasonably accurate reveal that the teachings given by the Sages to the mass of mankind were surprisingly few and quite similar.”

18		"Recognition of this relationship of oneness is the only possible way to personal, national, and international health, peace, and therefore happiness."

19		“No matter how great the disturbances, how persistent and for how long they may continue, their effects are temporary. The universally operative law causes harmonious equilibrium to be restored in the disequiliberated region.”

20		“This One Alone is no mere philosophic abstraction, but a Reality.”

21		“Oneness binds all human beings together.”

22		“A truly awakened person is one who freely gives light, life, wisdom, knowledge, encouragement, and the outstretched hand to all with whom he comes into contact….the Divine shines out in him, awakening the aspiration to enlightenment in all those who are able to perceive it.”

23		“Gentleness, tenderness, caring deeply – these are the ways, however humble, by which the very best in a person’s life can shine forth.”

24		"Man's spiritual Self perpetually unfolds potential capacities, this being the purpose for his existence."

25		“The Bhagavad Gita or the Lord’s Song states: ‘…And whoso thus discerns Me in all, and all in Me, I never let him go; nor loosens he hold upon Me.”