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1		"The liberating inner light of hope burning in an individual's dreams may serve to unite a chain reaction when shared with others." Our Dreaming Mind (Robert L. Van deCastle, Ph.D.)

2		"The universe (is) a great spread-out net with at every joint a gem, and each gem not only reflecting all the others but itself reflected in all." Myths To Live By (Joseph Campbell)

3		"There is an unending conversation going on throughout the universe, and a most meaningful one." Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (Jane Roberts)

4		"Naught in time and space can hinder, for every form being simply an expression of energised life, tends to serve every other form." A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (Alice A. Bailey)

5		"Organisms shape themselves in response to their neighbors and their environments. All respond to one another, co-evolving and co-creating the complex systems of organization that we see in nature. Life is systems-seeking. It seeks organization. Organization is a naturally occuring phenomenon. Self-organization is the powerful force by which Gaia created herself through relationships, creating all the living systems we see. She knows how to organize from the inside out, from partnering with neighors rather than from imposition and control." Margaret J. Wheatley, 'Reclaiming Gaia, Reclaiming Life' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

6		"Experience teaches that at the dawn of consciousness one stands already inclosed within definite, prepotent systems of relationships." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

7		"Nothing occurs in the world that in some way does not affect us all. Even the most insignificant act we perform will have some effect upon the world." Personhood: The Art of Being Fully Human (Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D.)

8		"Imagine! Two particles, once in contact, separated even to the ends of the universe, change instantaneously when a change in one of them occurs!" Larry Dossey, M.D., 'Ancient Messages in Modern Science' American Theosophist, The (Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)

9		"A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics shows that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. Subatomic particles are not 'things' but interconnections between things, and these 'things' are interconnections between other things, and so on. In atomic physics, you never end up with any 'things' at all; you always end up with inter-connections." Ken Wilber, 'The Holographic Paradigm' 1982 The Relevance of Bliss (Nona Coxhead)

10		"Now, in an extraordinary moment of global transformation, we will do more than just love: We will join our love and harness our love. We will pool our resources of forgiveness and imagination and grace, and in time we will collectively experience what physicists call 'phase lock', a phenomenon in which individual oscillating rhythms – here, the beats of many, many hearts around the world – fall into a deep pattern of energetic resonance. We will form a community of consciousness – a collective love – that is humanity's next step on our evolutionary journey." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

11		"(Humanity) as a whole is now coming into an era wherein the mind is becoming a potent factor; many are learning to hold the mind steady in the light, and consequently are receptive to ideas hitherto unrecognised. If a group of minds can be so drawn together and fused into an adequate synthesis, and if they (in their individual and daily meditation) keep focussed towards that which can be apprehended, great concepts can be grasped and great ideas intuited. People can train themselves – as a group – to think these intuited ideas of the true and the beautiful and of the Plan into manifested existence, and thus a creation of beauty, embodying a divine principle, can be built." Esoteric Psychology I (Alice A. Bailey)

12		"Everything I do is like the pebble thrown into a pool, making larger and larger ripples in the waters of other lives." Joshua Loth Liebman (1907-1948), American rabbi, educator, 'Peace of Mind' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

13		"The love you liberate breeds greater love everywhere it goes. It's contagious. In the long run it travels around the world." George Matthew Adams, 'The Love You Liberate' One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

14		"The world undergoes a sort of vast 'ontogenesis' (a vast becoming what it is) in which the development of each soul, assisted by the perceptible realities on which it depends, is but a diminished harmonic. Beneath our efforts to put spiritual form into our own lives, the world slowly accumulates, starting with the whole of matter, that which will make of it the Heavenly Jerusalem or the New Earth." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

15		"As an inner experience, individual soul reflects in its resonances the soul of the cosmos." Return of the Goddess (Edward C. Whitmont, MD)

16		"No one, no living being, is wholly outside the range and reach of the state of consciousness of every other….Every member of the human family is in contact with all others, so that in varying degrees each one influences every human being." Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

17		"The smallest cell does not pulsate, nor the largest sun emanate, without their vibrations and energies being felt throughout the Cosmos." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

18		"Since all minds are joined, conflict between any two of us contributes to war, and reconciliation between any two of us takes us closer to world peace. Our smallest judgment adds to war, and our smallest forgiveness adds to peace….The butterfly's wing in South America affect the wind patterns at the North Pole, and thoughts of true peace in Idaho affect plans for peace in Palestine. What an extraordinary opportunity as well as responsibility we have, to try to get it right." The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (Marianne Williamson)

19		"You are a member of the species. Any choice you make privately affects it biologically and psychically." The 'Unknown' Reality (Jane Roberts)

20		"Each individual's dreams and thoughts interweave with every other person's." The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (Jane Roberts)

21		"Every aspect of creation interrelates with every other….every thought, word, or action reverberates throughout the entire creation." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

22		"The universe is nonlocal. Separated parts of it – how widely they are separated makes no difference; it could be from here to the rim of the universe – are simultaneously in touch with one another." Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief (Huston Smith)

23		"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." Wind of the Spirit (G. dePurucker)

24		"Everything in the universe is linked as in a garland." A Dictionary of Symbols (J. E. Cirlot)

25		"When I touch the flower, I touch my consciousness, your consciousness, and the great planet Earth at the same time….If you really touch one flower deeply, you touch the whole cosmos….When you touch one, you touch many, when you touch many, you touch one….Look more deeply, and you will see yourself as penetrating everywhere, interbeing with everyone and everything." Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, 'Cultivating the Mind of Love' Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)