Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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"The Spirit of man finds peace in the supreme and deathless Self. He who knows that Eternal Self, bodiless and shadowless, luminous and everlasting, He knows, O beloved, the all and becomes the all." Prasna Upanishad
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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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"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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"'That' which makes of all the contraries a loving union of opposites, 'you are'."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The awakening of faith is neither an emotional conversion nor an intellectual assent to doctrine, but an awakening to Mind Itself."
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"To love is truly to know."
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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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"In every form of life an organizing, self-regulating process resides, an inborn purpose to be a whole in a whole….This organic impulse, which in plant and animal is an unconscious instinct, becomes in man an urge to complete the mystery of Being in the harmony of Knowing."
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"The aim of all religions is essentially the same. It is the reunion of the self-conscious with that supreme Principle of consciousness and being which is known metaphysically as the One."
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"Transitory as all phenomena are, they reflect a Mind that is eternally whole."
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"We cannot win enlightenment for ourselves unless we are seeking it for all. Equally, however, we cannot be loving and kind to others, unless we are the same to ourselves."
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"In your innermost being the Divine IS and you ARE by virtue of Its presence."
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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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"By the mind this truth must be seen: there are not many, but only One." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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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 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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