Many / One

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1		"Truly, each person is the child of the Eternal One."

2		"Where the Spirit is not present, where the Spirit is denied, where the Spirit is quenched, there is no fount of reality that brings the buoyancy of interspiritual and interpersonal realizations to the consciousness."

3		"Yes, man the microcosm contains the grid of the macrocosm."

4		"If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself." Lao Tzu

5		"You must come each day to a greater understanding of yourself in order to be able to rightly represent the purposes of life. You are love and you love love. You are wisdom and you love wisdom."

6		"Each individual must daily strive to understand the totality of his being and his relationship to the whole."

7		"Every child of God's heart must discover who he is. To do so, he must know his intrinsic worth."

8		"The great teachers of mankind have walked the earth showing men how to live by dispensing both practical and spiritual wisdom. Their instructions have been simple. They have taught men not to hate but to love. Their admonishments were codified in the Ten Commandments and in the founding principles of the world's major religions. These principles include a belief in one Supreme Being."

9		"'Know thyself' is an ancient proverb attributed to several sources, among them Thales and Solon of Athens (two of the Seven Wise Men of Greece) and Socrates. Cicero speaks of it as a precept of Apollo. It was one of the maxims inscribed in gold letters over the portico of the temple of Delphi."

10		"God said to Abram, 'Go to your self, know your self, fulfill your self." The Zohar

11		"The being and consciousness of man must expand its own faith in universal purpose and draw upon a firsthand knowledge of the divine schemes."

12		"The kindness you give will open the door to a spiritual path of joyous self-discovery."

13		"Each one can walk the earth in dignity overshadowed by God presence. Each one can embrace the gift of love, both giving and receiving that special gift of charity that is meet for all. Yes, all can espouse the Be-attitude of affirming God's Be-ness in one another."

14		"The key to the redemption of the social system lies in the victory of divine law in the being of individuals. What the individual becomes, the collective world is."

15		"The individual who reaches out from the seemingly separated center of being can, if he will, contact the cosmic center of life. From there he may reach out to the periphery of all reality as easily as the miracle of the radiant, expanding mind of God penetrates the universe with light."

16		"It is well to remember the words from Hebrews: 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' When you are childlike in your faith, that faith will sustain you in your determination to find your freedom from the darkness that would hide your True Self."

17		"Truly the living God is crowned in every atom."

18		"The greatest masters…have ultimately obtained reality through their abiding faith in the constancy of cosmic law."

19		"Man must truly know himself – as a divine being."

20		"Jesus' mission was to demonstrate to every soul on earth how to reunite with the Holy Christ Self. Jesus was the example of what we can become. He wanted all of us to walk our own path of personal Christhood."

21		"I have no longing except for the One." Rumi

22		"Truly the admonishment 'Man, know thyself!' leads him upward and onward into the unfailing light."

23		"As people seek to commune with the essence of their own being, they must see that God has implanted his divine seed within them, even as he has implanted it in nature. As fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart wrote: 'There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him. God's seed is within us.'"

24		"In the center of the castle of Brahman, our own body, there is a small shrine in the form of a lotus-flower, and within can be found a small space. We should find who dwells there, and we should want to know him." Chandogya Upanishad

25		"The mystics of the world's religions have contacted the divine spark, describing it as the seed of divinity within. Buddhists, for instance, speak of the 'germ of Buddhahood' that exists in every living being. In the Hindu tradition, the Katha Upanishad speaks of the 'light of the Spirit' that is concealed in the 'secret high place of the heart' of all beings. It describes this Spirit as 'smaller than the smallest atom, greater than the vast spaces."