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1		"Like the Eastern traditions, it [Sufism] looks beyond appearances to the essential oneness of Being." Kabir Helminski, 'Sufism, A Path to Human Wholeness' The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West (Jay Kinney, editor)

2		"We should learn to behold the manifold in the One." The Human Adventure, Contemplation for Everyman (William McNamara, O.C.D.)

3		"Wherever you are in consciousness at this moment, know that you are one with every other soul." The Human Aura (Kuthumi and Djwal Kul)

4		"The beginning of all things is one and the end of all things is one, and the end and the beginning are the same." Hippocrates The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

5		"The One gives life to the whole Kosmos." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

6		"There is a direct linkage from the human heart into the Heart of the One." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

7		"The One Reality creates the diversity of the natural world without compromising its own unity." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

8		"Hearken ye with attentive mind. There was and ever is one thing alone, even Mind, and beside the unity of this one thing, there was nothing else in being. This mind, ever existing in itself, ever encompasses all things with its own light and spirit….There is no god, nor angel, nor daemon, nor any other being, that is outside of Him; for He is Lord and Father of all, and all things are in Him and subject to Him." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

9		"Infinite, all-pervading and all-embracing Consciousness is both One and Many, Only and All, Source and Suchness, Cause and Condition, such that all things are only a gesture of this One, and all forms a play upon it. As Infinity, it demands wonder; as God, it demands worship; as Truth, it demands wisdom; and as one's true Self it demands identity." The Atman Project (Ken Wilber)

10		"The present history of religious sentiment in men, whoever they may be, seems to me to be dominated by a sort of revelation, emerging in human consciousness, of the one great universe." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

11		"Spirit and Matter, as we know them, are but the duality of expression of the one great Deific principle." Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge (Zolar)

12		"This sensation of being one with the universe is much more common than one might initially suspect, for it is the very foundation of all other sensations." Spectrum of Consciousness (Ken Wilber)

13		"Interconnectedness permeates all things visible and invisible, and binds the Many inseparably to the One." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

14		"God is breath. All that breathes resides in the Only Being." New Testament, John 4:24, Aramaic translation One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

15		"Accept your Oneness with all life." The Spirit of Findhorn (Eileen Caddy)

16		"In deep meditative trances we become aware of the One Reality, whose essence…is love." Gary Lachman, 'Heavens and Hells, The Inner Worlds of Emanuel Swedeborg' The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West (Jay Kinney, editor)

17		"Psychoanalysts have noted that the joining of the square with the circle (in such forms as the star, the rose, the lotus, concentric circles, the circle with a visible central point, etc.) is symbolic of the final stage in the process of individuation, or, in other words, of that phase of spiritual development when imperfections (irregular shapes) have been eliminated…for the sake of concentrating upon the achievement of Oneness." A Dictionary of Symbols (J. E. Cirlot)

18		"God is one; all God's creation is one; and we are to be at one in our journey of love into God." A Retreat With St. Bonaventure (Leonard J. Bowman)

19		"That which is One projects 'otherness' as a mirror of Self-knowing." The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite (Arthur W. Osborn)

20		"In its highest unity, all that moves us in feeling is one….our being and living is a being and living in and through God." Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834), German theologian The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

21		"Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

22		"First of all, believe that God is one, who created and completed all things." 'The Shepherd of Hermas', anonymous Christian writing, ca. 125 AD The Apostolic Fathers (Jack Sparks, editor)

23		"There is only One of which all else is composed." Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey (Stephen Levine)

24		"There is in the last analysis but one world and one humanity." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

25		"Every act of love brings happiness; there is no act of love which does not bring peace and blessedness as its reaction. Real existence, real knowledge, and real love are eternally connected with one another, the three in one: where one of them is, the others also must be; they are the three aspects of the One without a second – the Existence-Knowledge-Bliss." Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), Hindu mystic, 'Karma-Yoga' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite