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1		"There is only one of us….it's always just God dancing with God." Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita (Ram Dass)

2		"All this apparent complexity and aimless motion is in fact a delusion, caused by the limitations of the consciousness….for only ONE extremely simple movement is really taking place." The Hidden Side of Things (C. W. Leadbeater)

3		"Divinity is always one." One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

4		"All individuals are united to the whole; so that we see that the whole is one, and of the one are all things." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

5		"The One who speaks to us is not far away – by no means. He is more present to us than we are to ourselves." Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form (M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.)

6		"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us." As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life (Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal)

7		"Know each thing separately, yet all things as one." W. Y. Evans-Wentz, introduction Tibetan Book of the Dead (W Y Evans-Wentz, translator)

8		"This belief that our world is one indivisible thing is held by modern scientists today, and they come very near to proving it also – at least nothing ever happens to create a doubt of its truth….the world of our experience is in some way one." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

9		"There is in reality one Mind….This Mind is the life, intelligence, power, and creativity in the entire universe." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

10		"We are a family. White Buffalo Woman reminds us that we are more than family, we are one with each other. 'Whatever you do to any other thing or being in the circle of life', she exhorts us, 'you do to yourself, for you are One.'" Brooke Medicine Eagle, Native American healer, 'Creating a Path of Beauty' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

11		"God is giving herself, wholly and completely, in and as the incomprehensible stature of a single breath." Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God (James Finley)

12		"That which is one has developed into the all." Rig Veda VIII.58.2d The American Theosophist (various)

13		"There cannot but be one wisdom….Humans must therefore all agree that there is but one most simple wisdom whose power is infinite." Nicholas of Cusa, 'Opera Omnia' Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

14		"It would not be possible for perfect order to exist in all the parts of the world unless they were united by one single divine and continuous spirit." Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series (William Huffman, editor)

15		"This whole essence is but one thing only, like the mind of a man. Even as he is in soul and body, so also is this whole essence." Jacob Boehme Collected Works (Carl Jung)

16		"Home is the One Reality, the Ultimate Mystery, God, the One, the All, the Absolute – or whatever else we like to call it – which can perhaps best be described as a non-dualistic, Self-revealing, Self-knowing state of being." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

17		"Thus have you fitted together all things in one...that thy word should be one in all things, abiding forever." Cleanthes, Fragment 537:15b The New Testament Background: Selected Documents (C. K. Barrett, editor)

18		“One is all, and by it all, and for it all.” Alchemical saying Arcana Mundi (Georg Luck)

19		"Let us suggest a way to move through your day. Against all that your separated senses tell you, try to see through the unity of the inner eye. It sees the One – the Light – the Wholeness. So, as you walk, as you move, remember you can see with this inner eye. You do it by reminding yourself that one thing is not more important than another. You look at everything with the intention of seeing the One in all things. You carry with you the intention to see the Wholeness of Consciousness." Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream (Mary-Margaret Moore)

20		"The love of the One is actively concerned in awakening each life to its true center." Douglas V. Steere (b. 1901), philosophy teacher and author Devotional Classics (Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors)

21		"All matter, originating as it does from its One Source, is essentially divine." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

22		"The One Mind being the Cause of All Causes, the Ultimate Reality, every other aspect of the Whole, visible and invisible, and all states or conditions of consciousness, are inseparably parts of the One Mind." The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

23		"'Everything comes from the One and returns to the One, by the One, for the One' reads the alchemical axiom." Alchemy, The Art of Transformation (Jay Ramsay)

24		"In Hermetic philosophy the arcane substance has a 'thousand names', but essentially it consists of the One and Only (i.e., God)." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

25		“’As all things proceed from the One….so all things are born of this one thing’, says the ‘Tabula smaragdina’.” Collected Works (Carl Jung)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite