Many / One

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1		"When we extend awareness and identify with other animals, mountains, and rivers, we are realizing the ecological self, the transpersonal mode of being that interconnects us with all of life."

2		"The present moment is a powerful goddess." Goethe

3		"In the ultimate depth of being, we find ourselves no longer separate but, rather, part of the unity of the universe. That unity includes the sufferer and the suffering, and the healer and that which heals. Therefore, all acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self." Ram Dass

4		"The underlying matrix unites all life forms in an unbroken community of species."

5		"As is the human body, so is the cosmic body. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind. As is the mircrocosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the atom, so is the universe." The Upanishads

6		"The One and the many, time and eternity, are all One." Reshad Field, Sufi scholar, 'Steps to Freedom'

7		"Creative choice is your birthright. Please own it." John Bradshaw

8		"Instead of understanding the world in parts, we need to think about the whole." Wes Jackson

9		"We can listen to the voice of the Earth as she shakes and sings her song expressing her tiredness. She is calling us to attention, to be alert, to recognize that now is the time to transform selfish thought and action to compassionate caretaking. Do we want a world of peace and harmony? Are we willing to make that peace within ourselves? Will we call it forth? It is your choice. Your thought and action make a difference." Dhyani Ywahoo, Cherokee teacher

10		"In keeping with the Gaia Hypothesis, formulated by English scientist James Lovelock, deep ecologists view the world as a living organism whose many species make up a single breathing entity."

11		"The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days." Stephen Jay Gould

12		"Deep ecology is supported by modern science…but it is rooted in a perception of reality that goes beyond the scientific framework to an intuitive awareness of the oneness of all life, the interdependence of its multiple manifestations and its cycles of change and transformation." Fritjof Capra, 'The Turning Point'

13		"The topic of unselfish love has been placed on the agenda of history and is about to become its main business." Pittrim Sorokin

14		"According to the late mythologist Joseph Campbell, mythic tales reconnect us to the trnascendent source that undergirds daily life, while disconnection from this realm invites anxiety and soul sickness."

15		"God is so omnipresent….that God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw." John Donne

16		"The environment responds to our thought and feeling. It is for humans to be aware of how our thought, word, and deed affect the environment. One person filled with doubt and anger may wilt the flowers; another person's enthusiasm is such that cut flowers last for weeks." Dhyani Ywahoo, Cherokee teacher

17		"Undoubtedly, the most fundamental principle of Judaism's entire visionary way is that the cosmos is a coherent and meaningful whole." Edward Hoffman

18		"Empathy increases our sensitivity to other people so that we know their essence. Describing this practice, French writer Honore deBalzac writes, 'Listening to people talking I could enter into their lives, feel their tattered clothes on my back, walk with my feet in their shoes; their desires, their needs, all passed into my soul, or my soul passed into theirs.'"

19		"Myth is a kind of lensing system for the mind of God. It carries the codings of existence." Jean Houston

20		"Works like the Zohar, the 'bible' of Kabbalistic lore, stress over and over that all the various dimensions of existence are intimately interwoven." Edward Hoffman

21		"As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves." Huston Smith

22		"God made man because he loves stories." Elie Wiesel

23		"The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in." Harold Goddard

24		"No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and every one the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides." Hasidic saying

25		"Meditative insight reveals that this personal self is co-extensive with everything else in creation – the atmosphere we breathe, the trees that oxygenate the atmosphere, and the sun that fuels the Earth's energy processes."