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1		"You know, all mystics – Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion – are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well." Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality (Anthony deMello)

2		"Even in its very worst and lowest aspects the world is improving." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

3		"Will-to-good has carried all creation on toward a greater glory and a steadily deepening, intelligent responsiveness." The Reappearance of the Christ (Alice A. Bailey)

4		"Do the good that you know." Emanuel Swedenborg The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West (Jay Kinney, editor)

5		"Each one vaguely apprehends a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore to attain unto it each doth strive." Dante, 'Purgatorio', xvii. 127-129 Dante and the Mystics (Edmund G. Gardner)

6		"The mind is drawn quite naturally to the ideal of Truth; the heart or our values, is quite naturally drawn to the ideal of Beauty; the guts or will is quite naturally drawn to the ideal of the Good." Keith Critchlow, 'Twelve Criteria for Sacred Architecture' Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

7		"He who made me is good, and he is my good. Before him I rejoice for all these goods out of which I had my being even as a child." Confessions (St. Augustine)

8		"The fountain of blessing wells up unceasingly." Gregory of Nyssa (b.335) The Holy Fire, the Story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church (Robert Payne)

9		"We experience glimpses of goodness all the time, but we often fail to acknowledge them. When we see a bright color, we are witnessing our own inherent goodness. When we hear a beautiful sound, we are hearing our own basic goodness." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa)

10		"The more the soul fills itself with the true and the good, the wider and the more comprehensive becomes the eternal in it." The Essential Steiner (Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)

11		"Seen in perspective, the world is ultimately benign." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

12		"Good deeds that are done for a good motive are the dead that live even in the grave; they are flowers that withstand the storm, they are stars that know no setting." Matthias Claudius (1740-1815), German poet The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

13		“All jobs provide opportunity to spread good will among fellow-workers and those one meets by a friendly smile and a helping hand.” Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)

14		"Humans are inclined to do good." Introduction to Theology (Thomas P. Rausch, editor)

15		"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)

16		"In the view of every wisdom tradition, the essence of the universe is love and light and goodness. Our grand purpose is to awaken to our essential nature, which is the very same love and light and goodness." Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

17		"Good is latent in every living thing, and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love." Kinship With All Life (J. Allen Boone)

18		"Affirm the good that is really there. This is the key to reconciling full engagement with life." Finding Deep Joy (Robert Ellwood)

19		“Good continually inclines toward unity or wholeness.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

20		“Good, possessing the virtue of unity, must ever increase until it includes everything within its own nature.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

21		"Good and evil are the light and shade of the same thing." Duncton Found (William Horwood)

22		"Divine good exists in every particular creature." Thomas Aquinas, In Mt 3, p. 36 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

23		"From you, O God, come all good things." Confessions (St. Augustine)

24		"By turning toward the Good, the soul comes to follow its true spiritual nature." The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Karen L. King)

25		"We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion." William Penn One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

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