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1 "The apprehension of the intrinsic interconnectedness of all leads organically to a compassion for all, especially in the concrete existential situations of life as we meet others each day. Simply put, when we realize we are all in this together, our kindness and understanding grows. We are all related; we are all responsible for one another." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

2 "The whole of nature is contained within each of us." Kichizaemon Raku XV, contemporary craftsman The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

3 "Unity is destined to become more and more fully realized." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

4 "From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity." The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth (Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D.)

5 "The stuff of the universe, woven in a single piece according to one and the same system, but never repeating itself from one point to another, represents a single figure. Structurally, it forms a Whole." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

6 "The alchemist…knew definitely that as part of the whole he had an image of the whole in himself." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

7 "Life is a triumph of cooperation and creativity. Indeed, since the creation of the first nucleated cells, evolution has proceeded through ever more intricate arrangements of cooperation and coevolution." The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Fritjof Capra)

8 "The unity of the soul rests empirically on the basic psychic structure common to all souls, which, though not visible and tangible like the anatomical structure, is just as evident as it." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

9 "Bliss is associated with complete Being; it concerns the interior attitude of the Whole." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

10 "To see life properly we must never lose sight of the unity of the biosphere that lies beyond the plurality and essential rivalry of individual beings." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

11 "As was taught of old, the little worlds and the great are copies of the whole, and the minutest insect as well as the most highly developed being are replicas in little or in great of the vast inclusive original." The Ocean of Theosophy (William Q. Judge)

12 "God is an energy field of alive, conscious awareness, pulsating and singing with life force through your Wholeness – and your body is part of that Wholeness." Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream (Mary-Margaret Moore)

13 "Theosophy views the Universe an an intelligent whole, hence every motion in the Universe is an action of that whole." The Ocean of Theosophy (William Q. Judge)

14 "The human soul is made of the same elements as the world soul." The History of Magic and the Occult (Kurt Seligmann)

15 "Everywhere are to be found centres of force, and the idea can be extended from such a force centre as a chemical atom, on and up through varying grades and groups of such intelligent centres, to humanity, and thence to the Life which is manifesting through the system. Thus is demonstrated a marvellous and synthesised Whole." The Consciousness of the Atom (Alice A. Bailey)

16 "All beings on earth are indissolubly joined together." The Ocean of Theosophy (William Q. Judge)

17 "In the last analysis the world is a system of homogeneous relationships – it is a cosmos, not a chaos. This belief is the foundation of Chinese philosophy, as of all philosophy." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

18 "As James Lovelock put it: 'So closely coupled is the evolution of living organisms with the evolution of their environment that together they constitute a single evolutionary process.'" The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Fritjof Capra)

19 "Although nature's forms are varied, the vast differences of form are contrasted by a simplicity of likeness in process. Our internal processes mirror nature's internal processes and vice versa." Breaking the Mind Barrier (Todd Siler)

20 "Part of the information that we need now is an awareness of the indivisibility of our relationship with each other – peoples of all races, nationalities, ethnicities, and classes – and with the Earth and all her creatures." China Galland, 'The Black Madonna and the Limits of Light: Looking Underneath Christianity, A Teaching for Our Time' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

21 "The energy by which the body is pervaded is the same as that which illuminates the world and maintains alive all beings." The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Joseph Campbell)

22 "The sacred, at the core of all physical things, expresses itself in patterns of the Web of Life of the Earth. These patterns are a part of that living bible of the Earth." One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality (Stephen Harrod Buhner)

23 "It is essential that humanity relate its own mechanism to the greater mechanism (our entire planetary life) and view what is called 'one's own soul' as a part of the world soul." The Destiny of the Nations (Alice A. Bailey)

24 "The requirement of today is becoming more and more obvious. It is the recognition that the world is so small and so tightly interlocked, that the community, the actual community, is a world community." Joseph Campbell The Hero's Journey (Phil Cousineau, editor)

25 "Behind all lies a biological and psychic cooperative venture." The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (Jane Roberts)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite