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

3		"Even the common articles made for daily use become endowed with beauty when they are loved."

4		"Everything is multiplicity within unity….In the image of God who created them, all beings are at once one and many from the galaxy to the electron." Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest, 'Abide in Love'

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

6		"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'

7		"All the inhabitants of the world – the trees, flowers, fields, streams, hills, rocks, dolphins, bears, birds, and babies – are our relations, as Native Americans express it."

8		"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'

9		"In a real sense all life is interrelated. All people are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

10		"Your encounters with others reveal your connection with the Oneness."

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

12		"All things are interconnected. What happens in one place affects all places."

13		"God is creating the entire universe, fully and totally in the present now." Meister Eckhart, 13th century mystic

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

16		"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

17		"We are vessels containing the Holy One."

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

19		"We are embedded in communities, circles within circles of communities, both small and large, focused and abstract. Holding up the ideal of unity, we strive to break down the walls which separate us from others – not only other nations and peoples, but other species and the natural world."

20		"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'

21		"Everything that happens to us and everything we encounter contribute to our journey toward wholeness."

22		"Who is our neighbor? The Samaritan? The outcast? The enemy? Yes, yes, of course. But it is also the whale, the dolphin and the rainforest. Our neighbor is the entire community of life, the entire universe. We must love it all as our self." Brian Patrick, author

23		"Accept the mystery of being loved by the Divine Magnet."

24		"Treat everyone you meet just like you would if you just had your breath taken away by the most beautiful person in the world. Treat each situation in the day as though you were head-over-heels in love." Scout Cloud Lee, Native American elder

25		"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."