Many / One

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1		"The primordial One may be represented as masculine (as in the case of Brahma), feminine (as in the World Mother}, hermaphrodite (as in the cases of 'I' and Ymir), anthropomorphic (as in most of the above-presented examples), theriomorphic (as in the Persian myth of the dismembered World Ox), botanomorphic (as in the Eddic image of the World Ash, Yggdrasil), simply ovoid (as in the stories of the World Egg), geometrical (as in the Tantric yantras), vocal (as in the cases of the Vedic sacred syllable OM and the Kabbalistic Tetragrammaton), or absolutely transcendent (as in the cases of the Buddhistic Void and the Kantian Ding-an-sich." The Flight of the Wild Gander (Joseph Campbell)

2		"We are all part of one life, no higher or lower. Praise God forever in the vastness of all life." To Hear the Angels Sing (Dorothy Maclean)

3		"We move toward that consciousness of our shared destiny in One World." Joy Mills, foreword The Transforming Mind (Laurence and Phoebe Bendit)

4		"From one Soul, that of All, spring all the Souls, which spread themselves as if purposely distributed through the world." Stobaeus (ca. 5th century), Greek compiler of ancient fragments, 'Eclogae Physicae et Ethicae' The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

5		"God is the One and Indivisible." Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series (William Huffman, editor)

6		"In the self the one is also the many, and the many are all comprised in the one." Aurora Consurgens (Marie Louise vonFranz)

7		"We are part of the One, never apart from the One Life." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

8		"Spirit and Matter, as we know them, are but the duality of expression of the one great Deific principle." Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge (Zolar)

9		"The world is of one piece, the same spirit which is in the saddle in the globe is also in the atom." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

10		"Reality is basically an Absolute Oneness." The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions (August Karl Reischauer)

11		“The One may be called the underlying element of all things.” Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

12		"There is only one fundamental energy or force in the universe." Visions and Prophecies for a New Age (Mark A. Thurston, Ph.D.)

13		“The Transcendent One predefined and brought into being everything that is.” Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

14		"Accept Oneness and rejoice. Bring Oneness and communion with all things into all of your life. Grow. It is a natural growth at this time." To Hear the Angels Sing (Dorothy Maclean)

15		"There is but the One Mind (or Consciousness)." The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

16		"God is the infinite and eternal substance of all finite existences, an absolute and unchanging ONE underlying the finite modes in which it variably manifests itself." The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1 (Mortimer J. Adler, editor)

17		"The true origin, root, and source of our life is the One Spirit." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

18		"The Eight Hundred Myriads of Gods are but differing manifestations of one unique Deity…The Eternally Standing Divine Being of the Earth, The Great Unity of All Things in the Universe, The Primordial Being of Heaven and Earth, eternally existing." Izawa-Nagahide, 'Shinto-Ameno-Nuboko-no-Ki' Hero With A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)

19		"John Wheeler has proposed a conception of the universe that he has called 'observer-participancy', or a closed-loop participatory universe in which – as quantum physics would have it – nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. In other words, the Creator and the Created are One." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

20		"Eternal oneness with God IS the very reality of ourselves and of everyone and everything around us." Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God (James Finley)

21		"We are one with our earth at every level." Regents of the Seven Spheres (H. K. Challoner)

22		"We should learn to behold the manifold in the One." The Human Adventure, Contemplation for Everyman (William McNamara, O.C.D.)

23		"The ordinary way of dividing the world into subject-object terms is illusory. At bottom, the perceiver and the perceived are one." Larry Dossey, M.D., 'Ancient Messages in Modern Science' American Theosophist, The (Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)

24		"There is in reality one Mind….This Mind is the life, intelligence, power, and creativity in the entire universe." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

25		"It is the purpose of life to be fully manifesting on the outer levels, and fully united and conscious of Oneness at the same time. That is reality. One life breathes through all. Reverence all life, for it is part of you and you are part of it." To Hear the Angels Sing (Dorothy Maclean)