Many / One

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1		"The Divine One is the 'One who is with us', Emmanuel, 'God with us.'" The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (Matthew Fox)

2		"On innate divinity is the brotherhood of all people based – one life, one glory which shall be revealed, and one divine relationship." The Reappearance of the Christ (Alice A. Bailey)

3		"There is but one Spirit pervading space. Life and Form, its positive and negative poles, are one." Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science (Max Heindel)

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

5		"Were I given a hundred thousand tongues instead of one, and the hundred thousand multiplied twentyfold, a hundred thousand times would I say, and say again, the Lord of all the worlds is one." Guru Nanak (1469-1539), Indian disciple of Kabir, 'Hymns of Guru Nanak' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

6		"Before the Unconditioned, the conditioned dances: 'Thou and I are one!' this trumpet proclaims." Kabir The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

7		"The God of Pythagoras was the Monad, or the One that is Everything. He described God as the Supreme Mind distributed throughout all parts of the universe – the Cause of all things, the Intelligence of all things, and the Power within all things." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

8		"We are a means of expression for the eternal and infinite I AM, the Spirit; the dynamic flow of energy, the all-encompassing motivating force that Is the One Reality." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

9		"We are all, in our consciousness, one. And we're one with the totality and potentially omniscient." Joseph Campbell The Hero's Journey (Phil Cousineau, editor)

10		"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)

11		"There is but one Magnet in the universe, and from it proceeds the magnetization of everything existing." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)

12		"As Plato teaches in the 'Timaeus', the universe is one single, visible living being." Christopher Bamford, introduction Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

13		"You and the other are ONE. And the experience of the separateness is simply a function of the way we experience in the field of time and space." Joseph Campbell The Hero's Journey (Phil Cousineau, editor)

14		"One reality is expressing itself in individualization, alike in kind but different in manifestation." The Unobstructed Universe (Stewart Edward White)

15		"Blessedness consists in unanimity and harmony, so that many, even very many, suppose themselves to be one….for from the harmony of many there exists a One from which there is blessedness and happiness." Emanuel Swedenborg Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

16		"Ultimate ONENESS is a characteristic of the Rig Vedic vision." Jeanine Miller, 'The Relevance of the Vedas to Modern Man' The American Theosophist (various)

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

18		“One is all, and by it all, and for it all.” Alchemical saying Arcana Mundi (Georg Luck)

19		"There is only one Source of That Which Is, and the one Source IS That Which Is." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

20		"Whoever in Love's city enters, finds but room for One, and but in One-ness, Union." Jalalu'd Din, 'Wisdom of the East Series' Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

21		"Behold! The One who is unchanging, who is the Origin of the origins." Ching-ching, Nestorian Christian monk Living Christianity (Martin Palmer)

22		"Matter is one, soul is one, and God is one." 'Corpus Hermeticum' Aurora Consurgens (Marie Louise vonFranz)

23		"Teach us to respect the essence of all religions, and lead us to the One Ultimate Reality." Japanese prayer In Silence: Why We Pray (Donald Spoto, Ph.D.)

24		"The mystic knows that in some mysterious and indescribable manner God and his universe are one." Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

25		"Endless, ceaseless, continuous, The One if we try to name it, is lost in nothingness – which yet is filled: for this is the form of the formless, the shape of the shapeless, the look of the invisible….In the unfolding of Tao the unseeable is imaged." Lao-Tse Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)