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1		"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)

2		"They [the Mesopotamians] saw a unity in nature and harmony in the universe which bound together all objects and all events." The Roots of Consciousness (Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.)

3		"God…united everything into a harmonious whole." The Gospel of Bartholomew, 3rd century Christian Apocrypha The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor)

4		"All things form at one and the same time an organic whole and a precise order." A Dictionary of Symbols (J. E. Cirlot)

5		"God and His creation are not separate. The oneness of the Creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

6		"It is true that nature is alive, a superbly intricate web of relationships;….Nature appears to be a gigantic living organism, endowed with a will of its own and a complete, well-developed nervous system." Dialogue on Life, Buddhist Perspectives on Life and the Universe (Daisaku Ikeda)

7		"We are all Buddha things. We are all separate manifestations of this great consciousness that informs the whole universe. The plants are conscious. The stones are conscious. All things are conscious." Joseph Campbell The Hero's Journey (Phil Cousineau, editor)

8		"That the Universe is a living being with soul and spirit is a traditional doctrine expressed more or less in all revelations." Keith Critchlow, 'Twelve Criteria for Sacred Architecture' Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

9		"One great Consciousness includes the whole." The Hidden Side of Things (C. W. Leadbeater)

10		"Creation is like a rosebud with each petal gently enfolded in the next." Eliezer Shore, 'The Heart of Ritual' Parabola, the Magazine of Myth and Tradition (various)

11		"In the ultimate depth of being, we find ourselves no longer separate but, rather, part of the unity of the universe. That unity includes the sufferer and the suffering, and the healer and that which heals. Therefore, all acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self." Ram Dass As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life (Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal)

12		"We will come to see that there is not one atom in matter that is not part of the whole." Healing Through Colour (Theo Gimbel)

13		"Quantum theory reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated building blocks, but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of a unified whole." Ken Wilber, 'The Holographic Paradigm', 1982 The Relevance of Bliss (Nona Coxhead)

14		"Reality [is] one constantly explosive dance of divine energy, love, and bliss, interconnected in all of its events and particulars." The Essential Gay Mystics (Andrew Harvey, Editor)

15		"From synthesis to synthesis the life of God passes. First the synthesis of the atomic lives into ever more perfect forms until the three kingdoms of nature appear [mineral, vegetable, animal]; then the synthesis in consciousness, enabling the human being to enter into the larger awareness of the Whole." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

16		"And what is this holomovement? [David] Bohm describes it as an 'unbroken and undivided totality.'" The Sphinx and The Rainbow: Brain, Mind and Future Vision (David Loye)

17		"All living things fit together into a single pattern." The Web of Life (John H. Storer)

18		"Even a partial realisation of the unity of life blends a person mentally and spiritually with his fellowmen and with Nature. At the same time, it endows him with power which he can use in character-correction and character-building." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

19		"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)

20		"Everything is multiplicity within unity….In the image of God who created them, all beings are at once one and many from the galaxy to the electron." Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest, 'Abide in Love' Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

21		"For He would not have brought on any man what He has brought, if it were not useful for the whole." Marcus Aurelius (121-180) Wisdom for Life (Lynette Evans, editor)

22		"Through the years, people have related, oh, five hundred or six hundred near-death experiences to me. When people come back out of that experience of light, they'll often say that they have a sense that everything is interconnected. In some way that's hard to put into words, we're all the same. We all share one mind. And it doesn't stop with people, it has to do, too, with trees and plants and living things." Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Angels: The Mysterious Messengers (Rex Hauck, editor)

23		"The universal principle is found even in the smallest particle, which therefore corresponds to the whole." 'Synchronicity: An Acausal Principle' Collected Works (Carl Jung)

24		"The individual mind is an integral part of the Universal Mind." A Treatise on White Magic (Alice A. Bailey)

25		"The whole is present in each part, in each level of existence. The living reality, which is total and unbroken and undivided, is in everything." David Bohm The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite