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1		"Nature tells us that we can learn more of God by observing Him through His handiwork." Rediscovering the Angels (Flower A. Newhouse)

2		"Spiritual knowledge resonates abidingly in our hearts." The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment (Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)

3		"When the 'I am' is discovered – and every enlightened tradition has said this – we find ourselves and we find God. Look for yourself, and you'll find your creator." Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self (Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)

4		"Man may know how marvelous is the Spirit from which all things come." Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge (Zolar)

5		"We are living in touch with God. Everything we come in contact with, the whole of our daily circumstances, and all our interior responses, whether pleasure or pains, are God's working. We are living in God – in God's action, as a fish in the water." J. P. DeCaussade, 'Abandonment to Divine Providence' Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

6		"The natural world in its very essence is Divine." The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions (August Karl Reischauer)

7		"Our very being and the very being of everyone and everything around us IS the generosity of God. For God is creating us in the present moment, loving us into being, such that our very presence in the present moment is the manifested presence of God." Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God (James Finley)

8		"God brings man to perfection according to the way of man's own nature, working from what is lowest and most exterior up to what is most interior and highest." Ascent of Mount Carmel (St. John of the Cross)

9		"As gradually and naturally as the embryo of physical life emerges into the physical world, the germ of real life which is latent in human personality takes form and develops to the mystic climax of perfect participation in the Eternal World." The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins (Evelyn Underhill)

10		"Perhaps you feel that having an intimate relationship with the Divine is beyond you, reserved for others….This is not so. It is part of our heritage; it is yours and mind to have. All we need do is learn how to let go of our fear, for fear maintains the barriers of separation." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

11		"One can realise the Divine everywhere, the Self in all and all in the Self." A Greater Psychology, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought (Sri Aurobindo, edited by A. S. Dalal)

12		"The end and object of 'inward alchemy' will be the raising of the whole self to the condition in which conscious and permanent union with the Absolute takes place." Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

13		"The heart of the world is light and in that light shall we see God. In that light we find ourselves. In that light all things are revealed." From Intellect to Intuition (Alice A. Bailey)

14		"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." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

15		"Every little thing can be a gateway to infinity." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

16		"Recognize God as the great fact of the universe, separate from no place or part, but revealed in all places and in all things and events, moment by moment." Rev. Thomas C. Upham (1797-1872) Daily Strength for Daily Needs (Mary Wilder Tileston, Compiler)

17		"Contemplation of a single flower may lead the seeker through. A plant displaying Nature's symmetry, a tree, a mountain range, a single peak, flowing river, a thundering cascade – each and all of these will serve the contemplative soul as entrance to the realm of the Real wherein Nature's Self abides." Geoffrey Hodson, 'The Greater Gods' Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

18		"Human beings CAN know the transrational realms directly and immediately." Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy (Ken Wilber)

19		"Rocks and trees are not self-subsistent in the way optics by itself presents them. It now needs to be said that nature carries the signature of the divine – not only nature as a whole, but its parts, each of which betokens one of the ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah, as Muslims put the matter." Houston Smith, 'What They Have That We Lack: A Tribute to the Native Americans via Joseph Epes Brown', from 'Sophia' The Best Spiritual Writing 1998 (Philip Zaleski, editor)

20		"Carl Jung spoke of a God-archetype within the psyche. The psyche has an affinity for God, a faculty for relationship with God." Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila (John Welch, O. Carm.)

21		"Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can either be or be conceived without God." Ethics (Benedict Spinoza)

22		"Everything is linked to the presence of God in every moment." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

23		"Sheer joy is His [God's], and this demands companionship." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Theological Texts' Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

24		"True possession of God lies in the heart, not in thinking about Him…grasp the God that is Being, above all thinking." Meister Eckhart Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)

25		"God's activity runs through the entire universe. It wells up around and penetrates every created being. Wherever they are, it is there also. It runs ahead of them, it stays with them, and it follows after them." Jean Pierre deCaussade Teachings of the Christian Mystics (Andrew Harvey, Editor)