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1		"God is at work within life. He helps it, raises it up, gives it the impulse that drives it along, the appetite that attracts it, the growth that transforms it. I can feel God, touch Him, 'live' Him in the deep biological current that runs through my soul."

2		"In the domain of morality the Divine and the Terrestrial meet and are fused into one."

3		"From time to time a great common aspiration comes to the surface from roots that lie deep down in mankind. At a given moment, the whole mass of souls thrills as it opens its eyes to a new light. Their multitude, for all its diversity, forms one whole in the unanimous and undisputed acceptance of a truth that is spontaneously taken as established; and, in one body, they set out together as though to find a new Holy Grail."

4		"This is the classic teaching: God, who is 'his own being' is at the same time 'the being of all'."

5		"The more we lose all foothold in the darkness and instability of the future, the more deeply we penetrate into God."

6		"In the material universe it is Spirit, and in Spirit it is the moral sphere, which are eminently the PRESENT centre in which life develops. It is into this flexible core of ourselves, accordingly, where divine grace mingles with the natural impulses of the Earth, that we have forcefully to direct the power of faith."

7		"The interplay of the monads would be unintelligible if an aura did not extend from one to another: something, that is, which is peculiar to each one of them and at the same time common to all."

8		"In each one of the souls that is born from it, the cosmos is incessantly fulfilling its finest hopes."

9		"Love is the conscious mark in us of the act that creates us by melting us into one."

10		"After each new crisis, mankind has to yield to the evidence that it has changed for the better and has made progress; for life, and life alone, knows what is best for its children, and, what is more, reality always follows the most favourable line of development."

11		"People are called to form one single Body, in an intensely intimate divinization."

12		"The inter-personal contains the hopes of higher union on which evolution lives. It is the milieu of the monads' mutual attraction and confluence that sustains their final centre of coalescence."

13		"I looked around and I saw, as though in an ecstasy, that through all nature I was immersed in God."

14		"We can count upon creative energy awaiting us, ready to transform us in a way that goes beyond anything that the eye of man has seen or his ear has heard."

15		"The bosom of Mother Earth is in some way the bosom of God."

16		"There is in the universe only one single individuality (one single monad), that of the whole."

17		"If man believes with sufficient vigour in the force that is creating him, he will soon find that, for all its terrifying uncertainty, the future provides him with a solid footing as he advances."

18		"Every encounter that brings me a caress, that spurs me on, that comes as a shock to me, that bruises or breaks me, is a contact with the hand of God, which assumes countless forms and yet always commands our worship. Every element of which I am made up is an overflow from God."

19		"Seek in utter darkness the dawn of God."

20		"Each monad is to some degree the centre of the entire Cosmos, resting upon and at the same time supporting its fabric."

21		"Charity [love] safeguards the development of the universe and keeps it to the true path of its progress. Moral effort is the continuation in our souls of the same dynamic effort that gave us our bodies."

22		"Basically, the whole of the world's psychism [psyche] gravitates towards a single centre."

23		"The sum of our souls is the potentiality of Some Thing, not yet made, which is to emerge from their mass. Collective aspirations accompany and assist this organic work, greater than ourselves, which is effected in each one of us. It is the function of Morality to guide our free decisions into fruitful and obedient co-operation in this task."

24		"Of one thing, at least, we may be certain: we have all the strength necessary to complete the work of Spirit upon earth. Our future is in our own hands."

25		"We are the countless centres of one and the same sphere."