Many / One

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1		"The conscious psyche is certainly of a personal nature, but it is by no means the whole of the psyche. The foundation of consciousness, the psyche per se, is unconscious, and its structure, like that of the body, is common to all." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

2		"In the Kabbalah the Soul of Man is the mirror of God." Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages (Paul Roland)

3		"Human bodies are of course separate, but on a deeper level we are joined like icebergs in a common floe." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

4		"Each soul is an integral part of God, enfolding all divine possibilities as the seed enfolds the plant." Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science (Max Heindel)

5		"The divine-spiritual lives in each human individuality." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

6		"There is surely a piece of divinity in us." Thomas Browne, (1605-1682), English doctor and author of 'Religio Medici' The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

7		"We spring from the divine Ground which gives rise to all." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

8		"There is something innate in each of us that responds to the idea that human life is sacred, an instinctive feeling that this is true." Who Needs God (Harold Kushner)

9		"However men may differ in disposition and in education, the foundations of human nature are the same in everyone. And every human being can draw from the inexhaustible wellspring of the divine in man's nature." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

10		"From what source will human individuals ultimately draw the desire to accept one another and draw one another towards joyful unity? There is only one conceivable source: a growing attraction to the centre of consciousness in which their fibres and their bundle must complete themselves by reuiniting." The Vision of the Past (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

11		"From the unconscious there emanate determining influences which, independently of tradition, guarantee in every single individual a similarity and even a sameness of experience, and also of the way it is represented imaginatively." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

12		"The nature of the soul is relationship." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

13		"There is in every human being an unconscious inlet to the highest creative energies of the spirit." Michael Grosso, 'The Cult of the Guardian Angel' Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

14		"[During meditation] each stage of human evolution flashed before me as an upward spiral of spiritual development into divine realization. I saw human beings transformed into more and more refined and transparent bodies of light, gifted with the divine power to structure atomic energies into any form imaginable." Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing (Judith Cornell, Ph.D.)

15		"Our true self is a participation of the Divine Being. It is an image of God….It is a person of immense beauty, held in tenderest and unlimited love." Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form (M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.)

16		"Man, when he is true to himself, stays close to Nature or to the eternal Tao, 'the Way' of all things." The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions (August Karl Reischauer)

17		"The linchpin of our relationship with God is founded on the belief that human beings have creative capability to intervene in the 'normal' course of events. One word, one gesture, or even one thought can change the direction of the creative process. This being so, we are led to conclude that human beings play a cocreative role." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

18		"When you look at a person you can already see the Buddha." Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers (Thich Nhat Hanh)

19		"Do not underestimate yourself. Look around you a little bit and you will see continuations of the Buddha everywhere." No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life (Thich Nhat Hanh)

20		"Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention." Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

21		"You are a magnificent being, intricately designed and superbly adorned. You are both the universal soul and the personal, particular soul." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

22		"Man, in very truth, was created in the image of God. Eliphas Levi said: 'The mystery of the earthly and mortal man is after the mystery of the supernal and immortal One." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

23		"The overall data processing capacity is doubling every three years and if this rate is maintained, the complexity of the world network could approach the order of magnitude of a human brain in the number of its interactive processes or connections. In biological terms it is not unreasonable to conclude that human beings might well be the Earth's way of gaining global consciousness." Unknown Man (Yatri)

24		"Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

25		"Just as the various cells and members of the body grow and unite to form a single living being and find their ultimate perfection only by constituting that being, so the constant goal of individual and national development should be the unity of mankind." Max H. Begouen, foreword Building the Earth (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)