Many / One

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

2		"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."

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

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

5		"Man's art offers the gift of music out of mere sound, of wisdom out of awareness, of love out of indifference. These are difficult transmutations. They are accomplished by the alchemy of only the purest motivation."

6		"Whenever man experiences what he calls the beautiful, he enjoys a sense of growth in the direction of integration. It gives him an insight into the quality of wholeness or relatedness that underlies the apparently separate parts and incidents of being."

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

8		"The essential point emerging from the observations and conclusions of today's science is that the fundamental drive behind human progress and purpose issues from a continuous rise in levels of organization."

9		"Mature vision apprehends life as a beautifully spontaneous, boundless, and serene form to which we belong. What it suggests to us is infinite. What it promises is eternal."

10		"Art is the humble and marvelous image of the cosmic order itself….The spirit of the forms is one." Elie Faure

11		"Events form highly integrated patterns and there is a deep relatedness running through all things."

12		"We are still young and growing is not easy. But there seems to be a prevailing virtue in us, a conscience, which recalls us from our vagrancies and draws us toward the light."

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

14		"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."

15		"Never in all the reaches of history has there been precisely You before, and if you know how to value and cultivate the essence of your innermost sense and sentiencies, you become a creative element in the whole dynamic system."

16		"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."

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

18		"Maturing vision depends increasingly upon two necessities: inward development of self, and communication between growing selves at the altitudes of their subtlest insights."

19		"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."

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

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

22		"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."

23		"The Beautiful is the Now, and this is the eternity to which we belong."

24		"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."

25		"To see soundly is to see whole."