Many / One

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1		"It is one world, one work, one cause under God being expressed through different channels. Rejoice and let the plan unfold." To Hear the Angels Sing (Dorothy Maclean)

2		"Every single creature leads to the knowledge of the first and highest One, which is infinite in every perfection." Thomas Aquinas, 'Commentary on Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences', III Sent. 1.3, ad 3 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

3		"We are all really one." The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By (Carol Pearson, Ph.D.)

4		"All lines gather into One. Let the soul realize the One in Many." A Treatise on White Magic (Alice A. Bailey)

5		"All the breathing, the pulses, the rhythms and movements of the natural world on earth or in astronomical spaces are variations of the one universal pulse, which gives rise to them." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

6		"There is no separation OF anything, FROM anything. There is only Unity. There is only Oneness." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

7		"The object of the mystic's contemplation is always some aspect of the Infinite Life: of God, the one Reality." Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

8		"The same elements compose my mind and the world. This situation is the same for every mind and its world, in spite of the unfathomable abundance of cross-references between them. The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one." Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961), 'Why Not Talk Physics?' Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (Ken Wilber, editor)

9		"Love is no more and no less than the ethical expression of oneness." Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)

10		"O wonderful mystery! The Father of all things is one; the Word of all things is one; the Holy Spirit is one and the same everywhere." Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215), Theologian The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

11		"The whole Universe with all its parts…is interlocked, interwoven, to make a single whole, one body, one organism, one life, one consciousness, cyclicly evolving under one law." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

12		"We now know beyond doubt that large and widely scattered numbers of otherwise sane and sober people have had experiences of 'cosmic consciousness' in which the sense of life becomes perfectly clear. The antagonisms of good and evil, life and death, being and nothing, self and other are felt as the poles or undulations of a single, eternal and harmonious energy –exuding a sense of joy and love." Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

13		“It is the one Truth who works at all these stages: in the first, teaching as a Master, in the second consoling as a Friend and Brother, in the third embracing as a Father.” St. Bernard of Clairvaux Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.)

14		"The divinity is One reality which, because of our manner of seeing it, appears in different hypostases which are perfect in themselves." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

15		"All are bound together as the variously functioning organs of a single mighty organism." The Flight of the Wild Gander (Joseph Campbell)

16		"The great doctors of the Catholic Church always posit the unfathomable Deity, incomprehensible, infinite, and therefore necessarily but One and partless." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant)

17		"Every existing creature manifests some aspect of the intelligence or power of the Eternal One." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

18		“However much its names may differ, yet it is ever one thing alone.” ‘Rosarium’, Art. Aurif., II Collected Works (Carl Jung)

19		"All that exists throughout the cosmos is but the temporary, ephemeral effect of the One Life refracted through the screen of objectivity." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

20		"If with the ears of the Spirit the Song of Life could be heard, what would be its theme? The answer, in a phrase, is: 'Life is One'. There exists but One Life, One Light, One Power, One Love, and that is the central spiritual truth, in realization of which the Inner Self perpetually abides." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

21		"We have an eye of contemplation, which sees with higher or spiritual light the ultimate reality of oneness." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

22		"The universe in its entirety must be regarded as one gigantic process, a process of becoming, of attaining new levels of existence and organisation." Julian Huxley The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

23		"Try to see this world and the personalities of men as vehicles for the Divine Presence and the Divine Life, remembering also: All are but parts of one stupendous whole." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

24		"We are all beautifully interwoven into a single consciousness." Daphne Rose Kingma, 'A Profound Infusion of Love' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

25		"We are one with all that is, in every state of sentient existence, from the lowest worlds of suffering to the highest states of bliss and Perfect Enlightenment." Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup Tibetan Book of the Dead (W Y Evans-Wentz, translator)