Many / One

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1		"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain: and regard your neighbor's loss as your own loss." T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien (Taoist)

2		"Actions motived by love, service and unselfishness produce a growing freedom of self-expression."

3		"This is the way of happiness and of the fulfilment of life: 'He that is greatest among you shall be your servant.' (Matthew 23:11)."

4		"The pain of bereavement and the fear of death say to us: 'Seek the inner consciousness and seek it ardently. For when found it will banish both fear of death and pain of bereavement.' In our inner selves and in our hearts, if we will let them speak, we know these things."

5		"In reality all are united and vitalised by the omnipresent divine Life."

6		"In diverse forms a common soul we see." G. Matheson

7		"Within-ness and without-ness use both infinite, but also one."

8		"Send out affection to all – flooding every living creature with the power of love."

9		"Man is indeed a mystery, since he contains germinally within himself all his Creator's manifested attributes and powers and, in addition, those which will continue to become manifest throughout unending ages."

10		"A profound, fundamental truth concerning man is that, in his spiritual, intellectual, psychical and physical nature he is a miniature replica or epitome of the whole order of created beings and things."

11		"Man is a microcosm or little world, a reproduction in miniature of the macrocosm or greater world, meaning the universe and its indwelling Deity."

12		"All experience is valuable; nothing is wasted, even if it appears so, for silently the seed is developing. Thus, life is educative in the truest sense."

13		"As a sponge is in the ocean and the ocean is in a sponge, so we are in God and He is in us." Rufus Mosely

14		"All manifested divine Power, Life and Consciousness, and so all human Spirits, radiate from the One Source."

15		"The true citizen of the New Age will let compassion control even the details of daily life. He will shrink from harming anything that breathes because he will accept the Law of Kinship of all that lives."

16		"This divine impulse, striving ever after fuller manifestation of life, is seen everywhere in nature, and has often been spoken of as the Will-to-live. It appears in the seed, which pushes its growing point towards the light, in the bud bursting its prison and expanding in the sunshine. It is the creative genius in the painter, the sculptor, the poet, the musician, the craftsman."

17		"Behind all existence is one Supreme Power, one Energy, one Force, one Law, and, because of this characteristic of oneness, all the components of that One are united in the One Alone."

18		"Cultivate a state of goodwill to all. Never by thought or word or deed hurt another."

19		"God IS all-powerful, all-loving and all-wise. There IS a Plan – Evolution – and despite human resistance that Plan is certain to succeed."

20		"The chaos, the wars and the threat of wars, the ruin and the disease in the world are, I suggest, the direct result of humanity's denial in motive and conduct of the truth that Life is One."

21		"How may the self be discovered? All teachers give the same answer: By meditation and contemplation; by self-purification; and by action in service of the Divine in all beings."

22		"Man can master circumstances and make of each experience an opportunity for a fresh beginning, however heavily the past may weigh upon him."

23		"Wise was the injunction of the Mystery Schools of old, 'Man know thyself'; for when man truly knows himself, he knows all."

24		"It is the nature of love to change us into the likeness of that which we contemplate." A. E. (George W. Russell),

25		"This is the true solution: self-knowledge."