Many / One

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1		"Man is the seed of Divine Energy, the plant of which is mankind mandalized." Mandala (Jose and Miriam Arguelles)

2		"The Human is the symphony of the creative Word and the perpetual revelation of the Logos." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

3		"Seers, initiates, wise ones through the ages have demonstrated the heights that the human potential can reach. Looking at the lives of the Christ, the Buddha, Plato, or Lao-tzu, we can glimpse the possibilities of human development." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

4		"Each person is unique and important to the Whole we call God." Seven Paths to God, The Ways of the Mystic (Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.)

5		"God does not give us graces or talents or virtues for ourselves alone. We are members one of another and everything that is given to one member is given for the whole body." Seeds of Contemplatiion (Thomas Merton)

6		"We are a manifestation of the universe - one of its many forms...as numerous ancient cultures remind us and as contemporary science observes. We share the properties and processes of the universe - in all its manifestations." Breaking the Mind Barrier (Todd Siler)

7		"Man is made in the image and likeness of God." Theodore the Studite (759-826), Greek monk The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

8		"The destiny of the soul of Man is to be Awakened beyond its own limits." The Enlightenment of the Whole Body (Bubba Free John)

9		"Each of us is an infinitely creative being, endowed by God with extraordinary potential that He would have us make manifest." The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (Marianne Williamson)

10		"Every time you compassionately engage with another person, your reason for being on this world in honored and expressed." Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God (James Finley)

11		"Man in his inner Self is one with the Self of the universe." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant)

12		"God alone remains the one true unity in the plurality which is in man." Theological Investigations, Volume VII (Karl Rahner)

13		"Each individual Soul is unified with the World-Soul, the all-pervading divine consciousness." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

14		"Each child of God can say: I am born of the love of the Father for the Mother, of the desire of life for form. I express, therefore, the love and the magnetic attractiveness of the God nature, and the responsiveness of the form nature, and am consciousness itself, aware of Deity or Life." Esoteric Psychology I (Alice A. Bailey)

15		"Man in his native virtue is competent both to experience and to render blessedness." The Masks of God (Joseph Campbell)

16		"Just as the various cells and members of the body grow and unite to form a single living being and find their ultimate perfection only by constituting that being, so the constant goal of individual and national development should be the unity of mankind." Max H. Begouen, foreword Building the Earth (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

17		“In their divine essence all humans are equal.” Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)

18		"We enter the world as children bearing some quality which is important for the world, for the social life of humanity." The Essential Steiner (Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)

19		"We are truly God's sons and daughters, images of the childhood of divinity." The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

20		"Humanity has the power and responsibility to increase the glory that is the divine presence in the cosmos." The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

21		“Humanity possesses the power to interpret the whole and can actually come to realize its kinship with all.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

22		"Man is not alone. He is a unity in a diversity which in turn is held within an even greater unity." Understanding Yourself: A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul-Awareness (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

23		"Humans, as well as all other parts of the universe, live and move and have their being in the One." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)

24		"The undying Spirit of Life is always creating new Ideas, and humanity consists of the Sons and Daughters of Mind." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

25		"The mode or method of development for humanity is self-expression and self-realisation. When this process is consummated the self expressed is the One Self." Esoteric Psychology I (Alice A. Bailey)