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

2		"All living things are part of the whole, placed there by divine plan and purpose." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

3		"The Self (the Spirit) is below, above, to the west, to the east, to the south, and to the north. The Self, indeed, is the whole world." Chandogya Upanishad (ca. 9th century bce) The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Joseph Campbell)

4		"The undivided wholeness of existence is a holographic pattern of matter, energy, movement and space-time. Each locality of space, however tiny, contains…the pattern of the whole." Unknown Man (Yatri)

5		"The alchemists were concerned with nature as a living, divinely infused interrelated totality." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

6		"When our minds are stilled, the sense of the Infinite invades us; and not only are we embraced by It but paradoxically we find no distinction between It and all creatures. Unity is indivisible." The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite (Arthur W. Osborn)

7		"It is the attraction of the whole that has set everything in motion in me, has animated and given organic form to everything. It is because I feel the whole and love it passionately that I believe in the primacy of being – and that I cannot admit that life meets a final check – and that I cannot look for a lesser reward than this whole itself." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

8		"The ancient Jain scriptural aphorism 'all life is bound together by mutual support and interdependence' is refreshingly contemporary in its premise and perspective. It defines the scope of modern ecology while extending further to a more spacious 'home.' It means that all aspects of nature belong together and are bound in a physical as well as metaphysical relationship. Life is viewed as a gift of togetherness, accomodation and assistance in a universe teeming with interdependent constituents." Dr. L. M. Singhvi, lawyer, judge, author and poet A Parliament of Souls, In Search of Global Spirituality (Michael Tobias, Jane Morrison, Bettina Gray, editors)

9		"The world possesses a soul holding it together, and this soul is designated God, primordially and ever living and the source of all life." Cornutis, 'Compendium of Greek Theology' The Mystery Religions and Christianity (Samuel Angus)

10		"The Tibetans have a practice where, on the outbreath, you are actually supposed to mix the mind with all space, or mix the mind and sky. This means, when you breathe out, you simply feel your separate identity going out with the breath and then dissolving into the sky in front of you – dissolving, in other words, into the entire universe. It's very powerful." Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Ken Wilber)

11		"Cells and organs [in the human body] independently keep the rhythm of life, and yet they work together to maintain a consistent order in their interrelated functions. Here we can see a most exquisite harmony between the individual parts and the whole living organism." Dialogue on Life, Buddhist Perspectives on Life and the Universe (Daisaku Ikeda)

12		"Human, cosmos, and supersensible worlds are all interdependently linked and have unfolded together. In other words, the creation, elaboration, and progression of the solar system, humanity, and the hierarchies were synchronous events. In a sense, each is a different face in a different context of the same thing: the Logos." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

13		"Our bodies are the temple that con-temples us with other temples, other bodies of the universe, bodies of stars, of suns, of earth, of winged, finned, four-legged and two-legged brothers and sisters, children all of a living God." The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

14		"Each time you inhale you are drawing into yourself an average of about one atom from each of the breaths contained in the whole sky." Seven Mysteries of Life, An Exploration in Science and Philosophy (Guy Murchie)

15		"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)

16		"The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others." Honore de Balzac, 'Seraphita' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

17		"Particular events take place…because of an organic linking of the whole of cosmic experience, a linkage which is such that all events in the Cosmos are bound together in one harmonious correlation." Prem and Ashish, 'Man, the Measure of All Things' Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony (V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)

18		"In the last analysis every life is the realization of a whole, that is, of a self." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

19		"The essence of mystical contemplation is summed up in these two experiences – union with the flux of life and union with the Whole in which all the lesser realities are resumed – and these experiences are well within your reach…for this act, St. Thomas Aquinas taught, is proper to all – is, indeed, the characteristic human activity." Evelyn Underhill, 'Practical Mysticism' Divine Light and Love (Peter Roche deCoppens)

20		"When Buddhist scholars look at quantum mechanics, they tend to go, 'Aha, aha, this is what we've been saying all the time. Phenomena are all interdependent.' What looked to be isolated phenomena at an energetic level aren't isolated at all. Everything's related to everything else." Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Angels: The Mysterious Messengers (Rex Hauck, editor)

21		"Everything that happens to us and everything we encounter contribute to our journey toward wholeness." Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

22		"Beatitude always follows upon realisation of the unity of the part with the Whole." The Light of the Soul (Alice A. Bailey)

23		"One must know that no existing thing has an independent existence. One must know that all things are interdependent." 'Precepts of the Gurus', Tibetan Buddhist text Seven Paths to God, The Ways of the Mystic (Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.)

24		"At the most basic level, all are joined. There is no part that is not unified with the Whole." Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream (Mary-Margaret Moore)

25		"God thinks wholly, God thinks unity, not division, for all – not just a piece – of creation is present to the Creator. And present NOW." WHEE! We, wee All the Way Home (Matthew Fox)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite