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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"When you talk about God, you're talking about what connects everything to everything else." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"I just have to hold people in my prayer and love them and smile and treat them as if they're doing the best they can." Bette Edl, American Franciscan hermit
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"Plotinus speaks of the One as 'that fountain always on'." Huston Smith
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"I understand God in terms of love, compassion, justice. The Qur'an says everything in the world has been created for a just purpose." Riffat Hassan, Muslim Feminist teacher
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"The world's apparent brokenness conceals a hidden unity." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"Spiritual genius is the uniquely human ability to seek life's meaning. It's the voice inside us that keeps asking What's it all about? Who am I? How can I make a difference? This inclination to wonder why we exist is not rarefied, but a basic human trait… We're born with a craving to know our larger purpose."
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"Do you see what people appear to be, or the sacred presence coming through them? Dr. Tony Campolo, American Baptist minister
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"Because we have free will, we can choose to behave in ways that either enhance or hinder the movement of creation toward perfect completion in the divine."
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"Mind has great power, and its nature is the same for all beings. So, at a very deep level, one person's enlightenment is enlightenment for all." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun
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"We can choose to develop awareness,…. which allows us to be responsible agents instead of helpless victims." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun
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"We're each part of something that's much bigger and better than what meets the eye, and if we keep that in mind, our hearts will be in the right place. Life will be all right, because its ups and downs will be seen as what they are – threads in a great fabric whose beauty depends on bright and dark colors."
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"Islam teaches justice and respect for the human being and does not condone oppression."
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"There's only oneness." Karunamayi, Hindu spiritual mother
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"Reality is not only more unified but better than it seems to us. As God told the medieval mystic Dame Julian of Norwich, 'You will see for yourself that every sort of thing will be all right."
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"That God is one means there's a oneness at the core of all being in whom everything…converges." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"Everything a person does affects all being." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"Once a person truly awakens to the hidden holiness that underlies and unifies creation, his or her inevitable behavioral response is goodness, or treating others as the 'self' that all share."
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"We're all cast in the divine image, whether we're Eskimos or Hottentots, so we're more alike than otherwise." Huston Smith
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"The sacred isn't just 'up there' or in some afterlife but down here, right now."
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"Once one has truly realized the mind's true nature…you just see incredibly expansive interconnection." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun
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"Find the divine in everything. There has to be a part of you that knows that, at the end of the day, it's all working for God." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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