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1		"The subliminal mind in us is open to the universal knowledge of the cosmic Mind, the subliminal life in us to the universal force of the cosmic Life, the subliminal physicality in us to the universal force-formation of Cosmic Matter." A Greater Psychology, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought (Sri Aurobindo, edited by A. S. Dalal)

2		"From the second you incarnate, your soul is in dialogue with divinity, and it is expressing and experiencing its own divinity instinctively." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

3		"People see God every day; they just don't recognize him." Pearl Bailey, American singer The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

4		"Creation is the extension of God. Creation is God encountered in time and space. Creation is the infinite in the garb of the finite. To attend to Creation is to attend to God." Ancient Rabbinic teaching One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

5		"Sublimity and marvellous order reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought." Albert Einstein (b. 1879) A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

6		“At the touch of Wisdom the human spirit flows and begins to follow its most natural desire, namely, for its own perfection and the knowledge of God.” Aurora Consurgens (Marie Louise vonFranz)

7		"After all, that yearning call of God is there within every person. The destiny and adventure of the journey is there as well." A Retreat With St. Bonaventure (Leonard J. Bowman)

8		"God is as present as the air." Michael Hollings, 'Day by Day' Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

9		"The quest of the Absolute is no long journey, but a realization of something which is implicit in the self and in the universe." Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

10		"Wherever you turn, by certain traces which wisdom has impressed on her works, she speaks to you, and recalls you within, gliding back into interior things by the very forms of exterior things." St. Augustine, De lib. Arb II, 41 The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

11		"Take note of the heavens and the earth, how they move in effortless order, of the sun and moon that unfailingly return with their brightness, and of the stars that preserve their courses without exertion. There are, too, the birds and the beasts, which need not be told to flock,…and the trees grow naturally upward. Conform to this natural rhythm, follow this Way, and you will attain to wisdom." Lao-Tse Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)

12		"Divinity is implicit throughout the universe." The Brotherhood of Angels & of Men (Geoffrey Hodson)

13		"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)

14		"God is within us. We are each able to contact the world of spirit within our own little bodies, because in the final analysis it is the life of that world which is interpenetrating and sustaining us." The Finding of the Third Eye (Vera Stanley Alder)

15		"Every happening great and small is a parable whereby God speaks to us." Malcolm Muggeridge, Christian journalist Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

16		“God is providentially available to all.” Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

17		"The holy spark of the divine nature within (humanity) has a natural, strong, and almost infinite tendency or reaching after that eternal Light and Spirit of God from whence it came forth. It came forth from God, it came out of God, it partakes of the divine nature, and therefore it is always in a state of tendency and return to God." William Law, 'The Spirit of Prayer' The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins (Evelyn Underhill)

18		"St. Paul says, 'From the creation of the world the invisible realities of God, namely, His eternal power and divinity, may be perceived in created things by means of intellection.' (Romans 1:20)" St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science' The Philokalia, volume 4 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)

19		"God, since He is all in all – in a sense, IS all – may most easily be found within ourselves." Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

20		"Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through faith made manifest in action." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Second Century on Theology' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

21		"The cosmos is a work of supernal alchemy, performed in the crucible of God." The Dictionary of Alchemy (Diana Fernando)

22		"I have capitalized the word 'Nature' because it is the Numen in manifestation, the expression of God's law and will." Laurence J. Bendit, 'The Incarnation of the Angels' Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

23		"Unity consciousness is not a future state which results from some practice….for unity consciousness is present eternally." Ken Wilber, 'No Boundary' Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

24		"Within a world that is itself divine, where God is immanent throughout, in the impulse of the flight of birds, the lightning, the falling rain, the fire in the sun, there is an epiphany of divinity in all sight, all thought, and all deeds." The Masks of God (Joseph Campbell)

25		"You can learn to experience the sacredness, the nowness, of reality. That is the basis for creating an enlightened society." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite