Many / One

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1		"We cannot structure our lives solely by the wishes and hopes of our rational understanding. We are cells and partial functions of that universal mind substance. We are mind interracting with Mind, cells interacting with and dependent on organism." The Alchemy of Healing (Edward C. Whitmont, MD)

2		"All parts of the world communicate with one another and form one whole." Agrippa Von Nettesheim Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages (Paul Roland)

3		"The One Life has been described as a conscious, hypersensitive, electric, creative energy. All effects, pleasurable or painful, produced upon one living creature are communicated by this electric, telegraphic Life-force, elan vital, throughout the whole of manifested life." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

4		"There is an old saying, 'It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.' When we tell someone 'I love you', when we spread love, even the little that each one is able to do, we are lighting a candle in the darkness and our light shines a long way." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

5		"Your awareness of the sanctity within yourself and the sacredness of all existence affects everything, everywhere." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

6		"Anything you do for others, as well as the support you receive in your own life, has healing consequences for the whole human community." Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles (Caroline Myss)

7		"The principal inclination of each part is toward common action conducive to the good of the whole." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica', q. 26, a. 3 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

8		"Growth and development in one part of the body produces a corresponding advance in the whole. No one can make definite progress without his brother benefiting, - this benefiting taking the form of: the increase of the total consciousness of the group; the stimulation of units in the group; and the group magnetism producing increased healing or blending effects upon allied groups." A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (Alice A. Bailey)

9		"The whole universe is in a flow of universal in-fluence in which everything is in some degree potent in everything else." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

10		"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets: it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold." Theodore Parker One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

11		"Throughout all nature, the interconnectedness of life in its manifold forms is evidenced, a universal law of harmony revealing itself again and again in innumerable patterns." Joy Mills, foreword Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

12		"It's all the same and single thing. One ocean, one dream, 'in which all things flow and touch each other. A disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world,' wrote Dostoyevski." A Book of Angels (Sophy Burnham)

13		"A form and its morphic field are different octaves in a resonant continuum. Periodic resonance is the law of life and it is this which is causative in all formal organization, regulation and development. Rhythmostasis is the sustaining power of formal organization and we may consider form of all types, including DNA as wave-guide antennas, receiving and transducing information from fields having a resonant affinity." Robert Lawlor, 'Pythagorean Number as Form, Color, and Light' Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

14		"When we are drawn to the sweetness, beauty, and goodness of creatures, how boldly we ought to be borne away to the One in whom all these little streams commingle and course!" Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa contra Gentiles', ch. 2, n. 4 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

15		"As we think, thoughts go out to mold the thoughts and lives of others. As we think thoughts of love and gentleness, the whole reservoir of love in the world is filled to overflowing. As we contribute to this, so we contribute to forming public opinion that molds humanity's ideas more than we dream. Everyone has a share in this." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)

16		"We must learn about Wisdom from all things. As scripture says, 'Wisdom has made and continues always to adapt everything (Ps. 104:24). It is the cause of the unbreakable accomodation and order of all things and it is forever linking the goals of one set of things with the sources of another and in this fashion it makes a thing of beauty of the unity and the harmony of the whole." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

17		"We inhabit a participatory universe, influencing and being influenced on a cellular level by everything that is around us." Dawna Markova, Ph.D., author and organizational mythologist, 'From Rut to River: Co-creating a Possible Future' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

18		"I lived in everything; everything entered and lived in me." George Macdonald (1824-1905), 'Lilith' Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

19		"Ponder on joy, happiness and bliss; these release the channels of the inner life and reach – in a wide circle – many kinds of people." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

20		"Everything is in intimate touch with other things….with no empty space between. This is a dance in which the partners are holding each other closely." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

21		"When one organism succeeds in an environment, it sets up a resonance, and similar organisms, either in the near vicinity or even in geographically far-removed locations, resonate in sympathy." Unknown Man (Yatri)

22		"Serving the global vision through our personal vision may change thousands if not millions of lives, and in turn change our world." Rama Vernon, President of the Center for International Dialogue, 'Manifesting the Vision' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

23		"At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance." Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

24		"In the realm of the soul there is no separation but only a free circulation of spiritual life, light and love." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

25		"To love the good in another from good in one's self is genuine love towards the neighbour; for then the goods mutually kiss and are united with each other." Emanuel Swedenborg A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (Samuel M. Warren, compiler)