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1		"This sense of rounded completeness is always in man's mind as a background hope to all his thoughts and activities. He imagines his own lifetime to have a rounded completeness."

2		"The artist achieves by intuition, feeling, and perception of form what the scientist aims at by logic and exploration. In science, as in art, the essential drive is toward seeing whole."

3		"Inward development of self, communication between growing selves at the altitudes of their subtlest insights; these are essential to the way forward. Deep introspection, but not alone. Introspection propelled by the incitement of shared discovery."

4		"We bathe in an atmosphere traversed by great spiritual currents."

5		"Without virtue a man is not able to confer upon his works the spirit of great art."

6		"The most ultimate particles of reality that we can imagine are themselves intangible, unreal except as 'active events'. Things are not ultimately things; they are constellations of energies."

7		"To see soundly is to see whole."

8		"The Beautiful is the Now, boundless continuum. This is the eternity to which we belong. Our eternity is now."

9		"The sense of the beautiful seems to be directly referable to the quality of wholeness or relatedness that underlies the apparently separate parts and incidents of being."

10		"Being has a beauty that transcends its worst ugliness."

11		"Sensitiveness to beauty brings insights and visions which humanity does not otherwise attain." Ordway Tead

12		"Art at its most elevated is not so dependent upon skill as upon virtue. Virtue is pre-eminent dedication to a life of truth."

13		"The truth revealed by art, by science, by intuition, by thought, is the timeless, sizeless Form of Selfhood and pure being."

14		"Man questions; the artist in him answers. The answer is as true as the vision is sound."

15		"The me-ness of me, the you-ness of you, seek communion at the levels of our highest intentions."

16		"Relatedness is both the goal of our searching and the facilitating means."

17		"In physics, in biology, in aesthetics, this same Unitary Principle obtains; it is as though the tensions and pressures of conflicting forms in unstable irresolution ultimately find, by their own inner urgencies, and nature's purposive design, a mergent stability, a higher function in the mounting architecture….there seems to be a goal that is as inherently magnetic to all protoplasm and organism as to man himself."

18		"In the unified experience of reality the whole process of creation…is a single timeless moment of Divine self-manifestation." R. A. Nicholson, 'Commentary on Rumi'

19		"The true artist sees the harmony, the wholeness, the tendencies toward perfection in things everywhere."

20		"A person of wisdom and generosity can lift the entire level of behavior around him by the assumption of goodness that he projects upon his associates. He looks upon what he finds good in them with love, and they are favorably affected."

21		"The human spirit likes to see things whole. Emotionally and intuitionally we seek the sum of the parts as surely as we want the ending to an unfinished theme."

22		"An intelligent being carries within him the wherewithal to surpass himself." Henri Bergson

23		"We must measure reality by man's inner and higher nature. It is the only way to a creative vision of today's world."

24		"Seeing whole provides us with many insights. It even enables us to suspect that we endure, that our life is not a span of time bounded by a beginning and an end."

25		"There is a profound relationship between creativity and quality of human character."