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1 "The insight of interbeing…can be obtained when you contemplate phenomena – a magnolia, a squirrel, or a cloud." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

2 "Our unity with the world-being is the consciousness of a Self which at one and the same time cosmicises in the world and individualizes through the individual, and both in that world-being and in this individual being and in all individual beings it is aware of the same Self manifesting and experiencing its various manifestations." A Greater Psychology, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought (Sri Aurobindo, edited by A. S. Dalal)

3 "We are to recognize in this whole universe a reflection magnified of our own most inward nature; so that we are indeed its ears, its eyes, its thinking, and its speech – or, in theological terms, God's ears, God's eyes, God's thinking, and God's Word." Myths To Live By (Joseph Campbell)

4 "God…united everything into a harmonious whole." The Gospel of Bartholomew, 3rd century Christian Apocrypha The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor)

5 "Everything is grounded in consciousness of the whole. The whole is always there and awaits our receptivity." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

6 “All things subsist in all things.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

7 "In human beings there is the sign of all things; the human being is like a particularly finely polished diamond, in which all the world is reflected." Heinrich Schipperges Modern Esoteric Spirituality (Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors)

8 "We cannot possibly see the whole of what we are, if we persist in seeing the parts of our nature and nature's parts as disassociated entities. Defining things without considering their relationships with other things is a fatal flaw in descriptive analysis." Breaking the Mind Barrier (Todd Siler)

9 "All the inhabitants of the world – the trees, flowers, fields, streams, hills, rocks, dolphins, bears, birds, and babies – are our relations, as Native Americans express it." Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

10 "As physicists posit a unified field encompassing all known physical fields, atma, the One Life, Brahman, God can be thought of as a unified field in which all the principles, fields, and levels of cosmos inhere." The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

11 "Remain always true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourself united with all those who, from every direction, every culture, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge." Pierre Teilhard deChardin to Jean Houston A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story (Jean Houston)

12 "As the smallest grain of dust is bound up with our entire solar system, drawn along with it in that undivided movement….so all organized beings, from the humblest to the highest, from the first origins of life to the time in which we are, and in all places as in all times, do but evidence a single impulsion." Henri Bergson (1859-1941), professor at College de France A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

13 "What Ralph Waldo Emerson stated in the nineteenth century – 'I know with certainty that who I am does not end at the top of my head' – was echoed in the twentieth century by neuroscientists like Wilder Penfield and Karl Pribram. To them and others, consciousness is nonlocal, not confined to specific points in time and space but inextricably woven into the cosmic fabric." Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

14 "Each level of the universal hierarchy of beings contains all possible reality, in each case from a different aspect." Modern Esoteric Spirituality (Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors)

15 "On any given day, the events of our private lives fit within the larger pattern of world events, in which they have their context. On any given night the intimate events of our dream lives also exist in the greater context of the world's dreams, in which they have their reality." The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (Jane Roberts)

16 "Life is loving synthesis in action." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

17 "Twenty-five hundred years ago it took an exceptional man like Diogenes to exclaim, 'I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world.' Today we must all be struggling to make those words our own. We have come to the point in history when anyone who is only Japanese or American, only Oriental or Occidental, is only half human. The other half that beats with the pulse of all humanity has yet to be born." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

18 "There is no separation between you and me, between you and any other person…we all 'inter-are.' As my friend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, 'All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.'" Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World (Thich Nhat Hanh)

19 "I believe we are all part of a universal soul. At some level, we are all the same. We are all connected. Everyone in our drama is a facet of ourselves, and we are a facet of them. We are all facets of the same energy – an energy possessing incredible wisdom and love." Brian Weiss, M.D. Handbook for the Soul (Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield)

20 "We are all Buddha things. We are all separate manifestations of this great consciousness that informs the whole universe. The plants are conscious. The stones are conscious. All things are conscious." Joseph Campbell The Hero's Journey (Phil Cousineau, editor)

21 "Every person may err, but not the whole gathered together, for the whole has a promise." Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), English Catholic writer The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

22 "What is required is that we unite with others, in order that all may complement and aid one another through holding together." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

23 "Every part of the part contains knowledge of the whole of the Whole." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)

24 "It is I who am you and it is you who are me. And wherever you are, I am there. And I am sown in all: and you collect me from wherever you wish. And when you collect me, it is your own self that you collect." Gospel of Eve The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West (Jay Kinney, editor)

25 "Things are not independent, clear-cut, definite-boundaried objects….Each one is what it is because there is a principle of oneness which is the essential cause and basis of all. Each is in some way all. That is the nature of being. Nothing IS that is not essentially all." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite