Many / One

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1		"One thing is sure – all is one; the world, mind and all."

2		"There is an entelechy or active operation of form-building in Nature, and therefore a teleological purpose or design showing progress in Nature."

3		"Every little thing can be a gateway to infinity."

4		"Being is one, though named variously."

5		"Things are not independent, clear-cut, definite-boundaried objects….Each one is what it is because there is a principle of oneness which is the essential cause and basis of all. Each is in some way all. That is the nature of being. Nothing IS that is not essentially all."

6		"Man CAN KNOW that one reality – men have known it in the past and can do so now."

7		"We cannot get away from one ultimate enveloping cause, present in all causes and constituting their essential nature."

8		"There is something marvellous in the power within a seed, and when that seed is the human soul, containing the powers of will, thought and love, no one should dare to measure its possibilities by an undeveloped imagination…it is for him to be his own gardener, to understand his own destiny, and to make his circumstances assist him in its swift achievement."

9		"That the whole world is constituted of the One Reality is one of the essential principles of Vedantic thought."

10		"There is no complete error, no complete ignorance – ever. In the world what resists us helps us, as the ground which obstructs our feet, but is necessary in walking. There is no escape from the self."

11		"A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit." Ralph Waldo Emerson

12		"Love is a kind of knowledge, an awareness of other lives. With it we begin to live in others, and cannot ignore the wounded bird or the lost child."

13		"The world is of one piece, the same spirit which is in the saddle in the globe is also in the atom."

14		"From the unreal to the real is not from one thing to another, but from the complexity of duality and multiplicity to the simplicity of unity."

15		"Everything is in intimate touch with other things….with no empty space between. This is a dance in which the partners are holding each other closely."

16		"Everything that occurs is worthy of our most appreciative attention, since it is in some way Brahman."

17		"A man does not understand anything unless he loves it." Goethe

18		"The earth is honey for all beings; all beings are honey for the earth also -…It is the self, the immortal, Brahman, all. Just as all the spokes of a cartwheel are fixed in the nave and the circumference, so are all beings fitted in the self, which is without before or after, or inside or outside, the knower of all." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, II, 5

19		"If I were to try to name the new era, I would say it is characterized, whether consciously or not, by an inward-rising feeling of sympathy and companionship with other men and all things."

20		"The three mental steps towards knowledge of the One Reality are: 1. Listening, 2. Reflecting, 3. Contemplating. Listening means paying attention to the statements of the Scriptures with reference to the One Reality, and also to the words of seers and sages on the subject."

21		"Everything depends upon everything else, and, in fact, IS everything else as well as itself."

22		"We are brothers; sons of one sweet mother."

23		"Anyone who is intent upon knowing the One Reality finds the One Reality everywhere."

24		"The Vedanta Philosophy has as its basis the belief that the universe of our experience is only one reality and it can be known."

25		"This belief that our world is one indivisible thing is held by modern scientists today, and they come very near to proving it also – at least nothing ever happens to create a doubt of its truth….the world of our experience is in some way one."