Many / One

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1		"If you love it enough, anything will talk with you." George Washington Carver, American who discovered over 200 uses for the peanut plant

2		"Every happening great and small is a parable whereby God speaks to us." Malcolm Muggeridge, Christian journalist

3		"Fall in love over and over again every day. Love your family, your neighbors, your enemies and yourself. And don't stop with humans. Love animals, plants, stones, even the galaxies."

4		"Our lives extend beyond our skins, in radical interdependence with the rest of the world." Joanna Macy

5		"If you wish to know the Divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand." Buddha

6		"Life is a sacred adventure. Every day we encounter signs that point to the active presence of Spirit in the world around us."

7		"Accept that you are a child of God. Sing your own song with gusto. Fulfill your mission as a copartner with the Holy One in the unfolding drama of the universe."

8		"Let Spirit flow through you in little acts of kindness, brief words of encouragement, and manifold expressions of courtesy. These deeds will add to the planet's fund of good will."

9		"Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe." Talmudic saying

10		"In every moment of genuine love, we are dwelling in God and God in us." Paul Tillich, contemporary Protestant theologian

11		"In each of us is a seed of understanding. That seed is God." Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist author and activist

12		"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." Mother Teresa

13		"The world's sacred poetry, ritual, prayer, and art are filled with images of incarnated divinity, or the eternity that lies in the temporal, or the transpersonal that animates our personal lives." Thomas Moore, introduction

14		"Everything in life is speaking, is audible, is communicating, in spite of apparent silence." Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi teacher, musician and poet

15		"I am called to seek wholeness inside of myself. Healing begins here, in myself. Wholeness and unity begin inside of myself. If I am growing toward wholeness, then I'll be an agent of wholeness. If our community is an agent of wholeness, then it will be a source of life for the world around it." Jean Vanier, 'From Brokenness to Community'

16		"I believe in the essential unity of all people and for that matter, of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent." Mahatma Gandhi

17		"The world is alive and moving toward you with rare epiphanies and wonderful surprises. Remember you are standing on holy ground."

18		"I propose we fall in love several times a day for the rest of our lives. You could fall in love with the galaxies – there are one trillion out there!....You could fall in love with fish and plants, animals, and birds, and with people, especially those who are different from us." Matthew Fox

19		"We are vessels containing the Holy One."

20		"Looking deeply at any one thing, we see the whole cosmos. The one is made of the many."

21		"What are things? They are God's love become things. God communicates with us by way of all things. They are messages of love." Ernesto Cardenal, 'Abide in Love'

22		"The universe is a great system of vibrations we draw to us by our feelings: fear draws fear, love draws love." Lynne Sharon Schwartz, novelist, 'Fatigue Artist'

23		"The Great Spirit is the life that is in all things – all creatures and plants and even rocks and the minerals. All things – and I mean all things – have their own will and their own way and their own purpose." Rolling Thunder, Native American elder

24		"When I touch the flower, I touch my consciousness, your consciousness, and the great planet Earth at the same time….If you really touch one flower deeply, you touch the whole cosmos….When you touch one, you touch many, when you touch many, you touch one….Look more deeply, and you will see yourself as penetrating everywhere, interbeing with everyone and everything." Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, 'Cultivating the Mind of Love'

25		"If I deny the oneness of man, I deny the oneness of God. Therefore I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity, I am hungry and incomplete." Norman Cousins, American editor