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1		"In broadest outline we see the universe evolving life and life evolving to continually extended awareness. We see our individuality as a phase – perhaps a hairpin bend in the zig-zag spiral of ascent – and we see that our task in cooperating with the purpose of life and the universe is so to act and to think that we become increasingly aware of our extra-individuality – that is, the common life which unites us with our fellow creatures with all life and the universe." Gerald Heard (1889-1972), English philosopher and author, 'The Third Morality' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

2		"Behind the surface separation and supporting the seemingly disparate things is a unity more basic, more real, closer to us than our sense impressions,…mystics agree with physicists that this unitary realm is primary, that the divisions ultimately rest on a unitary background." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

3		"Apparent division can never erect itself into a real separateness; there is supporting and overriding it an indivisible unity which division itself cannot divide." A Greater Psychology, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought (Sri Aurobindo, edited by A. S. Dalal)

4		"Our divine origin makes us kin with every thing and every being that is, for not only are all mankind kin, but all beings and things that are are our other selves. All spring from the same universal ocean which holds us forever – the Mother Eternal, the Father-Mother." Wind of the Spirit (G. dePurucker)

5		“The soul naturally desires the adornment of wholeness.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

6		"All creatures of creation are working together to create the most perfect whole." Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era (Meredith L. Young)

7		"The collective unconscious….is not individual but common to all men, and perhaps even to all animals, and is the true basis of the individual psyche." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

8		"One flower is made of the whole cosmos." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

9		"Ancient psychologists taught that our own souls are inseparable from the world's soul, and that both are found in all the many things that make up nature and culture." Care of the Soul (Thomas Moore)

10		"Wholeness comes first, multiplicity later; the many derive from the one." Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief (Huston Smith)

11		"The truth is, of course, that we are all organically related to God, to Nature and to our fellow men." The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

12		"The whole environment participates in the nature of each of its occasions." Adventures of Ideas (Alfred North Whitehead)

13		"A greater being, it seems, is seeking to emerge in us, a being that knows at once that it is fundamentally connected with the great field of creation around us. This is not merely an intellectual idea but a direct realization. It carries a greater sense of certainty than our biological identity." God and The Evolving Universe: The Next Step in Personal Evolution (James Redfield, Michael Murphy and Sylvia Timbers)

14		"Nothing is inconsequential. Each grain of sand holds amazing secrets. Each event contains mysterious messages. Every encounter with another being is a point of contact upon which the universe pivots. When we enter into this frame of mind, reality as we see it becomes a vast opportunity to experience the interconnectedness of all creation. From this perspective, we come to the realization that every piece is integral in the unfolding of creation, including us." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

15		"Modern physical theories construe the entire universe as a single space-time entity that is not composed of discrete spatial parts but rather gives rise to ordinary things as local modifications of fields within it." Don Garrett, Introduction Ethics (Benedict Spinoza)

16		"Nothing is separate; everything is related to the whole." Healing Through Colour (Theo Gimbel)

17		"You are a part of every other person upon the earth, and you have a connection with each leaf and frog and nail." The 'Unknown' Reality (Jane Roberts)

18		"The one ever becomes many and the many are ever reunited with and in the one. This process constitutes wholeness." Beatrice Bruteau, 'The Unknown Goddess' The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)

19		"Acceptance of imposed dogmas is now giving place to experiment, and a divine self-determination, based on a realised unity with the Life in which we live and move and have our being, is taking the place of credulity and superstition." The Labours of Hercules (Alice A. Bailey)

20		"Ours is a time of emerging awareness of the interconnectivity of all things." The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

21		"All boundaries in the material world are illusory and the entire universe as we know it, in both its spatial and temporal aspects, is a unified web of events in consciousness." The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (Stanislav Grof)

22		"Every discernible part or process is a sort of microcosm or hologram. That is to say, the whole is expressed in or implied by every part, as is the brain in each one of its cells." Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

23		"Soul is an aspect of every form of life from a Logos to an atom….Brotherhood is a fact in nature, not an ideal." A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (Alice A. Bailey)

24		"What is organism (with its component organs) is no longer sharply distinguished from what lies outside the boundaries of the skin. In the holographic domain, each organism represents in some manner the universe, and each portion of the universe represents in some manner the organism within it." Karl Pribram, contemporary scientist and author The Relevance of Bliss (Nona Coxhead)

25		"Modern scientists have concluded that all phenomena are interrelated in complex networks of energy transformation. Teilhard deChardin's concept of the noosphere, a network of thought ecompassing the planet, is one such idea. The notion of networks of individuals who share a common interest and provide information and support to one another has enormous potential for furthering individual and social transformation." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite