Many / One

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1		"Universal brotherhood is inherent in any properly organized and enduring social structure."

2		"Universal brotherhood – not as merely vague sentimentalism, but as a recognition of human solidarity based on nature's own laws – is, after all, the keynote of any true civilization, and without it no civilization can endure."

3		"We may say with great reverence, yet with all truth, that back of all our labor however imperfectly we human beings may be doing, back of it as its origin and inspiration is this grand divinity."

4		"Ethics are no mere human convention; morals are rooted in the very fabric and stuff of universal nature herself."

5		"The past, the present, and the future are but one eternal NOW in the ever present."

6		"What is this perfect love which casts out all fear? Why, it is simply living in that part of our own self which is universal. It is becoming allied with the divine. Therein lies perfect peace, perfect harmony."

7		"You cannot enchain the human soul. It will break free."

8		"All are essentially unified in a divine oneness."

9		"Examine the teachings of all the great sages and seers who have appeared. You will find them essentially one, although expressed in different languages, expressed in different forms and formulations of thought appropriate to the respective ages in which each of the messengers appeared. Although clad in various garments, clothed in differing habiliments, the body of truth that they taught and teach is one."

10		"Universal brotherhood means not merely a sentimental or political brotherhood; it means that we are all of one common cosmic or spiritual origin, and that what affects one affects all."

11		"We human beings, as indeed all other things and entities everywhere, are parts of one vast cosmic whole, intimately united together, despite our failings and our stumblings, in the working out of our common destiny."

12		"This universe is one, broken into multitudes during manifestation; rooted in that One, living from it and by it. In it we live and we move and have all our being."

13		"Life should be governed by the grand ethical instincts of the human soul, which are based on the orderliness of nature's own structure and processes."

14		"There within indeed lie all truth, all harmony, all wisdom, all love, all peace. The inner god within each one of you as an individual is of the very heart of the heart of the universe, and concerning that heart of the universe, each one of you is It."

15		"The merest cognizance of spiritual and natural law should tell us that everything that happens in the great and in the small – because the small is included in the great – happens according to divine law."

16		"The universe and we are one. There is but one life."

17		"The most needed thing for us today is to do our utmost to bring about a renascence, a rebirth, in the minds of all of the truth that this universe of ours is under the most strict cosmical moral law, in other words, of harmony; for what in the universe is harmony, in the human soul we call ethical instinct."

18		"There is an unborn Christ in the soul of every one of us, the Christos, the Prince of Peace, the Prince of Love."

19		"It is our bounden duty to cultivate in our hearts the spirit of brotherly love towards all, however much they may differ from us in philosophical and religious or scientific opinions."

20		"At the core of every human being, indeed of every atom in the cosmos, is a living divinity." Grace F. Knoche, foreword

21		"We are all sparks of the divine heart."

22		"We are children of the infinite, of the divine."

23		"The great sages and seers, the masters of wisdom and compassion, belong to no race, and especially to no creed. They are the children of the spirit, whose familiar thought is truth itself; and hence their sympathies are universal. They need no frontiers of race, of caste, of creed, of color. They are truth-seekers, truth-teachers….For truth has no age. It never was born, it never has not been. It is timeless because universal. Its appeal is to the hearts and minds of all."

24		"The divine womb of being out of which we came in the dawn of time, is still our Mother."

25		"All exists in an eternal Now."