Many / One

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1		"Religious traditions generally consider that humans do have free will."

2		"The union of the separate Will with the one Will for the helping of the world is the goal which seems to be more worthy of reaching after than any the world can offer." Annie Besant, 'Study in Consciousness'

3		"In our times, we are under the admonition at the entrance to the shrine of the Delphic oracle: 'Know thyself.'"

4		"The individual center of consciousness is one with the universal, all-encompassing divine consciousness."

5		"As human consciousness develops it grows more and more conscious of the universal consciousness in which it is grounded." Bede Griffith

6		"We are evolving toward the goal of conscious unity with all."

7		"In conscious union with the One, the high purpose of human life is fulfilled."

8		"One pervasive consciousness runs through us and everything else. As numberless ponds and even muddy puddles reflect the one moon, the light of consciousness in each of us has but one source."

9		"Our little wills are encompassed by a universal, divine order."

10		"Consciousness is the ground of being; it is the one and only, the absolute." Amit Goswami

11		"As physicists posit a unified field encompassing all known physical fields, atma, the One Life, Brahman, God can be thought of as a unified field in which all the principles, fields, and levels of cosmos inhere."

12		"Nothing can exist alone and isolated, but everything partakes in the being of all things. The Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh calls this connection among all things 'interbeing'."

13		"We are one with a divine field of consciousness, with Brahman or God."

14		"In the highest form of will, the personality and even the transpersonal self are inspired by the universal will, call it God or atma, for the good of the whole."

15		"There is an inner direction and meaning that inheres at the transpersonal level in every life."

16		"Spiritual and divine powers lie dormant in every human Being." H. P. Blavatsky, 'Key to Theosophy'

17		"There is only one consciousness in a cosmic sense." Saul-Paul Sirag, scientist

18		"At the level of pure consciousness…we are one with everything, a focus of that which is undivided and universal."

19		"Spiritual will is the transcendent principle within us which forms as it were the very heart and core of our being." T. K. Taimni

20		"Self-knowledge is vital. All other forms of knowledge are of secondary importance; for a man's action, feeling, reasoning, and thinking are dependent on his idea of the Self." Shankaracharya, 'Self-Knowledge', ch. xv

21		"The One Light illumines all creation."

22		"There is an immortal center of being in us."

23		"This view of consciousness as a fundamental attribute of the divine is taught, not only by Eastern philosophers, but also by Christian mystics such as Meister Eckhart, by Pythagorean and Platonic philosophers, and even by some scientific theorists."

24		"Our deepest spiritual core is outside the sphere of individual selfhood. It is universal and impersonal, one with the divine or Brahman, the one essence of all."

25		"We are each a microcosm of the great macrocosm, according to Theosophy and other wisdom traditions; the structure of our nature mirrors that of the universe."