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1		"Being IS unity." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

2		"The whole infinity of discrete and independent souls is yet fused into a vast Whole…within the immensity of the World Soul." Dorothea Waley Singer, 'Giordano Bruno, His Life and Thought' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

3		"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)

4		"All now appears as one great connected and interrelated whole." How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Rudolf Steiner)

5		"The ancients believed that the theory of humanity's being made in the image of God was to be understood literally. They maintained that the universe was a great organism not unlike the human body, and that every phase and function of the Universal Body had a correspondence in humanity." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

6		“The unity of the universe is its most basic reality.” Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)

7		"Wholeness is an archetypal quality – an attribute of Deity. Regardless of the nature of its expression, every activity, quality, or condition is essentially a wholeness. This wholeness is made manifest by a division within itself whereby its nature becomes a mass of innumerable fragments, each of the fractions partaking of the quality resident in the original wholeness, and manifesting it through the wholeness of its own fractional part." Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

8		"Rest in the remembrance of being a luminous particle of interconnected totality, a unit of consciousness holographically occurring." Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self (Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)

9		"No man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part." Helena P. Blavatsky, 19th century Russian spiritual teacher and author Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

10		"In the creative process the various units of consciousness are autonomous individuals in their own right, as well as parts of larger wholes and ultimately of the entire cosmic fabric." The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (Stanislav Grof)

11		"It would seem that in the Earth's living system we are the nervous system; that is, we are the individual neurons of the brain of the planet, with the consequent responsibility for organizing and orchestrating the functioning and well-being of the planetary body. This responsibility includes evolutionary governance and whole-system management. Living organism to living organism, we and earth are now co-trustees of those processes." The Search for the Beloved (Jean Houston)

12		"The Whole manifests simultaneously on all levels of manifestation. The Whole is also immanent in nature; that is, present in its Oneness and undivided in its Wholeness no matter in what form or in the number of its manifestations." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

13		"Every thing in nature is connected: one state pushes forward and prepares another." Johann G. Herder (1744-1803) A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

14		"The most important of the fundamental instincts [is] the religious instinct for wholeness." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

15		"There are no walls between you and God, no distance, no separation. Looking out through meditative eyes, you see there is no distance, no separation, from others or from the earth that sustains us all." Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God (James Finley)

16		"From the unreal to the real is not from one thing to another, but from the complexity of duality and multiplicity to the simplicity of unity." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

17		"Because everything is made of everything else, nothing can be by itself alone." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

18		"Everything in the universe is related to everything else." How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Rudolf Steiner)

19		"At the psychololgical root of all mysticism there lies…magnetic power which urges each conscious element to become united with the surrounding whole." Toward the Future (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

20		"A mystical experience is all-embracing…It is a realization – with one's whole being – that all things are one, a universe, an organic whole into which the self fits." Mysticism, Its History and Challenge (Bruno Borchert)

21		"Everything which we apprehend in the Universe, since it has that which is all in all in itself, embraces in its own way the whole world-soul, which is in every part of the same completely." Giordano Bruno, 'De la Causa', Dialogue 5 Ethics (Benedict Spinoza)

22		"All around us, as far as the eye can see, the universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

23		"Self-consciousness only comes to its true fruition and understanding when it recognises its affiliation with the Whole." The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs (Edward Carpenter)

24		"Between four and six thousand years ago the ancient peoples in Europe built stone circles and decorated them with interlocking scroll loops. Similar motifs appear all over the world. The psychologist Carl Jung said such images are archetypes or universal structures in the collective unconscious of humankind. Could such a collective wisdom perhaps be expressing its intuitions of the wholeness within nature, the order and simplicity, chance and predictability that lie in the interlocking and unfolding of things?" Turbulent Mirror (John Briggs and F. David Peat)

25		"Transitory as all phenomena are, they reflect a Mind that is eternally whole." The Flame and the Light (Hugh I'anson Fausset)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite