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1		"The artist divines something out of his awareness of, his identification with, the One, the centre of life, the rhythmic universal order; and he communicates the sense of that order to the listener or beholder. But, say Pythagoras and Lao-Tse alike, we can all be artists in living, in 'the art of being in the world'. We too can identify ourselves with the One, can attune ourselves to the cosmic rhythm." Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)

2		"The Lord is One. All that exists, good and evil, justice and injustice, has its source in this fathomless and unutterable unity. All the powers of heaven and hell arise out of the One and serve it, each in its own way. We may not be able to understand how or why this should be, but so it is." Inner Christianity, A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition (Richard Smoley)

3		"'All things,' says the Kabala, 'are derived from one great Principle, and this principle is the unknown and invisible God.'" Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)

4		"Every man whose heart is no longer shaken by any doubt, knows with certainty that there is no being save only One." Muhammed Shabistari (written 1317) Wisdom for Life (Lynette Evans, editor)

5		"God is one not two. Who sees God sees nothing but one." Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) The Masks of God (Joseph Campbell)

6		"The cosmos is one, unique, and could not be otherwise, as it reflects the Oneness of its Cause." Keith Critchlow, 'The Platonic Tradition' Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

7		"There is only one Source of That Which Is, and the one Source IS That Which Is." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

8		"Reality is one." The Way Things Are (Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)

9		"Through Consciousness, the Universe is but one single thing; all is interdependent with all." Nature Word (R. A. Schwaller deLubicz)

10		"Unity with the One Life in all is the well or spring from which the waters of life are drawn, and active expression of deeply compassionate concern is the natural direction in which that water inevitably flows." Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

11		"Suffering is the leveler that reminds us of our common mortality, that none of us is exempt from the difficulties of human life. When suffering and despair come together, they provide us with the opportunity to affirm hope, love ourselves, and to say, against all odds, 'And yet I will love, and yet I will hope.' It is then that we learn transcendence; it is then that we know the beauty of oneness, of being part of the network of connectedness." The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By (Carol Pearson, Ph.D.)

12		"The one 'I Am' at the heart of creation, You are the light of life." Shvetashvatara Upanishad The Upanishads, selections translated by Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell (Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell, translators)

13		"The universe [is] held firm in the One unfolding Presence." The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs (Edward Carpenter)

14		"The wise is one only." Heraclitus The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

15		"In Hermeticism and Jungian psychology, the seeming destruction which the antagonist wreaks (death, swallowing, dismemberment, etc.) works to the will of the One in accomplishing the higher purpose of integration and rebirth…..personal adversity has a long-range regenerative effect." Tarot Revelations (Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts)

16		"The many are One." Freemasonry and Its Ancient Mystic Rites (C. W. Leadbeater)

17		"We are one under the One." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

18		"The One Mind is the unique root of energy, the potentiality of potentialities, the sole dynamo of universal power, the initiator of vibrations, the unknown source, the womb whence there come into being the cosmic rays and matter in all its electronic aspects, as light, heat, magnetism, electricity, radio-activity, or as organic and inorganic substances in all their manifold guises, visible and invisible, throughout the realm of nature." The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

19		"There is only the One Life." Telepathy (Alice A. Bailey)

20		"There's a level on which we are all one consciousness, deeply connected to the one mass consciousness." Shakti Gawain, speaker/workshop leader, 'Moving Toward the New Millennium' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

21		"What is it which determines the conformation of basic substance into the multiplex variety of Forms which we see about us? It is the One Universal Spirit." Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science (Max Heindel)

22		"This is the real message of the Bhagavad Gita: in short, temporal life and spiritual values stand in a relation of harmony – one divine life, as the Gita tells us." Swami Prabhavananda (b. 1893), monk of Ramakrishna Mission, 'Vedic Religion and Philosophy' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

23		"That the whole world is constituted of the One Reality is one of the essential principles of Vedantic thought." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

24		"Life is one and naught can ever take or touch that life." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

25		"There is but one Absolute basis, from, on, and in which are built the countless basic centres on which proceed the Universal, cyclic, and individual Evolutions." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite