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1 "He is the one God, hidden in all creatures, all pervading, the self within all, watching over all works, shadowing all creatures, the witness, the perceiver, the only one." Svetasvatara Upanishad The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs (Edward Carpenter)
2 "Let us think…of the oneness to which all our nature testifies." Lamps of Western Mysticism (Arthur Edward Waite)
3 "If we are enlightened by the contemplation of and knowledge of the One we are enabled to be unified, to achieve a truly divine oneness and it will never happen that we succumb to that fragmentation…which is the source of hostility between equals." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)
4 "We are all beautifully interwoven into a single consciousness." Daphne Rose Kingma, 'A Profound Infusion of Love' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)
5 "Life immanent and life transcendent, the Temporal and the Eternal order, are the complementary expressions of a Reality which is one." The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins (Evelyn Underhill)
6 "The One Mind alone is the Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient beings." Huang Po (Bloefield, 'Zen Teachings of Huang Po') Spectrum of Consciousness (Ken Wilber)
7 "No manifested thing can be thought of except as part of a larger whole: the total aggregate being the One manifested Universe." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)
8 "Consciousness is One." The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment (Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)
9 "We are that single, sole light which came into being." The Paraphrase of Shem (Gnostic text, ca. 1st century bce), The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor)
10 "'I covet nothing – but One.' You ought to have the meaning of these words in your intention and soul's habit always." Toward A Perfect Love (Walter Hilton)
11 "The wise is one only." Heraclitus The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)
12 "The universe is an orchestration of the one Word God speaks from all eternity." The Human Adventure, Contemplation for Everyman (William McNamara, O.C.D.)
13 "After all, consciousness is one." The Science of the Spoken Word (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
14 “St. Augustine says: ‘God is a most simple being, and yet He works in a most manifold way, being all things in each single thing, and one in all of them together.” Blesed John Tauler (1300-1361), Dominican scholar The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)
15 "Accepting and acting according to the basic truth 'All Is One' is a universal spiritual challenge." Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (Caroline Myss)
16 "This is the miracle of creation; that it is one forever." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
17 "All is one consciousness." The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment (Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)
18 "When we are drawn to the sweetness, beauty, and goodness of creatures, how boldly we ought to be borne away to the One in whom all these little streams commingle and course!" Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa contra Gentiles', ch. 2, n. 4 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)
19 "Accept your Oneness with all life." The Spirit of Findhorn (Eileen Caddy)
20 "The One embraces all sides." The Zohar, The Book of Radiance The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor)
21 "We have an eye of contemplation, which sees with higher or spiritual light the ultimate reality of oneness." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)
22 "The universe and I came into being together, and I, and all things therein, are One." Chuang-Tzu The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions (August Karl Reischauer)
23 "How truly the Lord is one." Edgar Cayce A Million Years to the Promised Land (Robert W. Krajenke)
24 "In diverse forms a common soul we see." G. Matheson Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)
25 "As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land. This earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you. One thing we know: there is only one God. No man, be he Red Man or White Man, can be apart. We are brothers after all." Chief Seattle, letter to the President of the United States, 1852 The Power of Myth (Joseph Campbell)
This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite