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1 "The One Reality creates the diversity of the natural world without compromising its own unity." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

2 "The one Life takes on countless limitations, each right in its own place and time." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant)

3 "Hand in hand, we journey down the river of our lives toward the vast Ocean of Oneness that is our source and our destiny." Handbook to Higher Consciousness (Ken Keyes, Jr.)

4 "The Sacred Scripture teaches, and reason enlightened therein and therefrom by the Lord sees, that God is one." Emanuel Swedenborg A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (Samuel M. Warren, compiler)

5 "God, the Master and Maker and Encompasser of all, is both One and all things;…for the whole which is made up of all things is one." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

6 "All created things, every one of them, cannot be looked at, in their nature and action, without the same reality being found in their innermost being – like sunlight in the fragments of a broken mirror – one beneath its multiplicity." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

7 "There is only one reality, and all multiplicity is imaginary. The world seems pluralistic only because our awareness has limitations." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

8 "We must say, over and over, there is only one Universe." The Unobstructed Universe (Stewart Edward White)

9 "The self (Atman) is really Brahman, the only being, the universal being, the One. So the self, the ego, and the essence of the universe are really one." The Religion Book, The Encyclopedia of Places, Prophets, Saints, and Seers (Jim Willis)

10 "It is by The One that all beings are beings." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One' The Essential Plotinus (Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)

11 "The soul feels the presence of the unseen One, in the profound depths of its being, with a vivid distinctness and a holy reverence, such as no words can describe." Rev. Samuel D. Robbins (1812-1884) Daily Strength for Daily Needs (Mary Wilder Tileston, Compiler)

12 "An ultimate existence pervades all the boundaries of the universe, and all people and all things are of one essence." Oneness: Great Principles Shared By All Religions (Jeffrey Moses)

13 "Plurality is the consummation of unity manifested." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Third Century of Various Texts' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

14 "I have no longing except for the One." Rumi Understanding Yourself: A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul-Awareness (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

15 "'God is One' is the utterance of truth. One life pervades all forms and those forms are the expressions, in time and space, of the central universal energy." A Treatise on White Magic (Alice A. Bailey)

16 "Let the oneness grow in your awareness." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

17 “The Divine One, which is the All of Us, is creating in every moment.” Questions and Answers on Conversations With God (Neale Donald Walsch)

18 "The mystical sense is essentially a feeling for, a presentiment of, the total and final unity of the world, beyond its present sensiby apprehended multiplicity: it is a cosmic sense of 'oneness'." Toward the Future (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

19 "All things are but one thing." Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series (William Huffman, editor)

20 "What you do for others the Holy One will do for you." ch. 46, v. 17b Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (Leo W. Dowling)

21 "Adonai, Allah, Brahman, Elohim, God, Jehovah, Krishna, and Yahweh are among the many names humans have given to The One Thing That Is….The One Thing That Is is all that exists. There is nothing that is not part of The One Thing That Is." What God Wants (Neale Donald Walsch)

22 "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)

23 "Spirit exists, God exists, a Supreme Reality exists. Brahman, Dharmakaya, Kether, Tao, Allah, Shiva, Yahweh, Aton – they call Him many who is really One." Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Ken Wilber)

24 "'Consciousness' in its true connotation is the 'One who knows'. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (Alice A. Bailey)

25 "It's One! The ground I was standing on, the leaf I was touching, the cloud in the sky, God that I was breathing, my own very self – were utterly, completely, ungraspably one!" Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God (James Finley)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite