Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
Compiled by JoAnn Kite
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"In your innermost being the Divine IS and you ARE by virtue of Its presence."
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"Universal compassion, which at the same time reaches down to all particulars, can only manifest in the truly wise who see in all sentient beings their own Self."
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"In the inmost heart of our being knowledge is love and love knowledge, while our true will is the creative power which springs from their union and which makes them one in action."
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"Rouse your self by Self, examine your self by Self. Thus Self-guided and mindful you will live happily." Dhammapada
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"To love is truly to know."
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"The various journeys and testings of myth and legend image the initiations by which the soul fits herself to conceive and bear the divine child, the spiritual consciousness."
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"Transitory as all phenomena are, they reflect a Mind that is eternally whole."
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"In all of us…the choice upon which all depends is between committing ourselves to the Light Which shines in darkness or turning away from it."
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"The self and the not-self are centred in a Reality which makes them one. They are one in..the primordial Spirit of Which the whole universe is the Self-expression."
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"Real awareness, as it develops inwardly, creates a correspondingly finer awareness of outer things and a genius for cooperating with them fruitfully."
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"Whether it is Blake losing himself in a knot in a piece of wood, Wordsworth in lines of curling mist or the figures of a shepherd and his dog, Shelley in the west wind, or Rilke in the bird flying through him and the tree growing within him – each and all of them were engaged in the task of reconciling the Knower and the Field, so that the perceiver and the perception might be one."
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"Brahman is the changeless Absolute of Being and of Knowing. But It is, also, without any conflict or contradiction, a Self of power and action present in all that lives and moves."
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"By tranquillity is meant Oneness and Oneness gives birth to the highest Samadhi [Enlightenment] which is gained by entering into the realm of Noble Wisdom that is realizable only within one's inmost consciousness." Lankavatara Sutra
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"Within one's own mind is Mind Itself, the native resting-place of everything that is."
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"The inherent nature of man, despite all the differences of race, tradition, or spiritual development, is the same in us all."
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"In the entire realm of becoming…there is a spiritual Consciousness, Which reveals Its being and Its power through a million points of light."
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"It is the Great Lord of all worlds, the Friend of all beings, who acts in every faculty we possess and every breath we draw."
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"God can see through us the forms of His creating and when we see them even partially with His eyes, we see the essence of Being in the ceaseless flow of becoming."
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"When the soul is fully conscious of its eternal essence, it needs no proof of immortality and no explanation of what will or will not survive the death of self or of the body to which the self clings. That it lives in the deathless by dying to separate existence is as Self-evident a truth of experience as that it lives and dies in each mutable moment."
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"Joy is ours as something which eternally abides through all the changes of circumstance, of light and shadow, because it is of the very essence of life."
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"True consciousness…embraces all divisions in its own unity. For it is based in an unconditioned Knower who reconciles the Field of Knowing with Himself, since there is nothing which is not a form of His Consciousness."
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