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1		"In the words and deeds of the past there lies hidden a treasure that men may use to strengthen and elevate their own characters." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

2		"Creativity is built into the very fabric of the Kosmos. This creativity – Eros is one of its many names – drives the emergence of ever higher and ever wider holons, a drive that shows up, in the interior domains, as an expansion of identity (and morals and consciousness) from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit. And the proof of that seqence is found, not by staring at the physical organism and its environment, but by looking into the subjective and intersubjective domains. But humanity has ALREADY done that very carefully for at least several thousand years." Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy (Ken Wilber)

3		"If we really contemplate the course of human evolution, we are bound to say that however overbearing the opposition, the misunderstandings, the slanders that oppose the truth, the truth will find its own way through the narrowest cracks in the rocks of human evolution, however great the pressure from the rocks may be." Reincarnation and Immortality (Rudolf Steiner)

4		"The perennial philosophy first arose in matriarchy, and thus cannot be charged with inherent sexism; it arose in illiterate peoples, and thus is not logocentric; and it first flourished in what are now Second and Third world countries – it is hardly Eurocentric. Furthermore, it offers what 'politically correct' thought cannot: an integrative vision that, while allowing each expression its own free space, points to a better state of affairs, namely, the supreme Identity. It thus has inherent in it a genuine liberal agenda: increasing freedom on both an individual and societal level." Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Ken Wilber)

5		"I am compelled to testify that literary works can communicate transcendence." Omens of Millennium (Harold Bloom)

6		"Fortunately, we have proof that the spirit always renews its strength in the fact that the essential teaching of the initiations is handed on from generation to generation. Ever and again there are human beings who understand what it means that God is their father. The equal balance of the flesh and the spirit is not lost to the world." Carl G. Jung (1875-1961), 'Freud and Psychoanalysis' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

7		"Man's intellect and will are tendencies toward universal truth and universal good." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

8		"Though there is only ONE truth it speaks in many tongues." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

9		"The world of the shaman is one of cosmic unity and a sense of love….It is the same world of the Christian mystics of the medieval times. It is the same world of the great Eastern saints." Michael J. Harner The Roots of Consciousness (Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.)

10		"Every religion mixes universal principles with local peculiarities. The former, when lifted out and made clear, speak to what is generically human in us all." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

11		"The truth lies at the heart of Creation itself – if we could but see it. If we can, then miracles can take place as we live in the light of it – the light that is the sun, the gold, and famous philosopher's Stone. All these are synonyms for truth." Alchemy, The Art of Transformation (Jay Ramsay)

12		"When many, writing in different times and places, affirm the same thing as true, their unanimity must be referred to some universal cause." Hugues De Groot (1583-1645), Dutch philosopher A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

13		“An inner infallible sense in the psyche of humankind contains one and the same wisdom, no matter in which century or in which religious tradition it appears.” Mary Within (David Richo)

14		"May that Universal Good Will of the Great Teachers of Wisdom speedily prevail, so that mankind may recognize their divine at-one-ment." The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

15		"The time-tested scriptures of the world are one in essence." Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)

16		"If we carefully analyze the writings of all these people, and others, we see in them striking similarities. It seems to me that when twenty different people who do not know each other and live at twenty different times on the planet write essentially the same things, there may be something here for us to look at very carefully." Questions and Answers on Conversations With God (Neale Donald Walsch)

17		"Oneness of the universe is more fundamental than its diversity, so what is most widespread and most expresses unity among the spiritual and philosophical traditions of the Earth is most true." Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)

18		"We have seen in far-flung shamanic traditions distant in time and place, whether in initiation rites, dreams, shamanic lore, rock painting, or monumental sculpture, mankind riding on precisely the same symbols to precisely the same truths or, we might say, experiences." The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness (Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D.)

19		"Pythagoras and all the other philosophers who were endowed with some touch of the divine recognized that God is one and indivisible." Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series (William Huffman, editor)

20		"Fulfilled gurus, seers, incarnations and saviors, speak frequently as with one voice." The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Joseph Campbell)

21		"To societies rooted in the Sacred, that is, in the ideals by which the greatest majority of humankind live and have lived over the greatest majority of the life of the human family, the created order is sacred." Keith Critchlow, 'What Is Sacred in Architecture?", Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

22		"There have been…individuals who have stumbled across an evolutionary threshold into what they see as the true evolutionary goal of the species. These pioneers have returned from their expeditions with maps and routes to the natural state of man and have shown where we originally came from, who we are and where we are heading." Unknown Man (Yatri)

23		"All [mystics] have the same message about that very thing which no soul can utter; the immediate experience of God." The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

24		"The testimony of the mystics of all time is so vast that it now in itself constitutes a body of proven facts and cannot be gainsaid." The Labours of Hercules (Alice A. Bailey)

25		"The perennial philosophy repeatedly declares that the realization of our essential oneness is not reserved for a select few. Because the Self is common to everyone, we all have the potential to be aware of our real inner natures." The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness (Peter Russell)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite