Many / One

A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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1		"The right to live with mutual consideration and respect needs to be the newly-forged path of an aware society." Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era (Meredith L. Young)

2		"The conditions of advance are these: global unity of mankind's noetic organisation or system of awareness, but a high degree of variety within that unity; love, with goodwill and full cooperation; personal integration and internal harmony; and increasing knowledge….We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our knowledge and our love." Julian Huxley The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

3		"The inner Child in you connects you to the inner Child within everyone else." Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (Caroline Myss)

4		"The whole world, from its beginning until its final term, has as its unique end the constitution of a holy Society, in view of which everything has been made, even the universe itself." Editors The City of God (St. Augustine)

5		"The broad sympathies and discerning insight needed for the healing of earthly woes cannot flow from a mere intellectual consideration of human diversities, but from knowledge of men's deepest unity – kinship with God." Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)

6		"Building genuine connection and deep community among the peoples of the world is the historical task of our generation." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

7		"The need to establish Right Human Relations is paramount." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

8		"Self-sacrificing and forgiving compassion are the ultimate fulfillment of person-in-community and the ultimate revelation of the character of God." Martin Luther King One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

9		"We are embedded in communities, circles within circles of communities, both small and large, focused and abstract. Holding up the ideal of unity, we strive to break down the walls which separate us from others – not only other nations and peoples, but other species and the natural world." Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

10		"At some level, however unconscious,…you are not separate from other human beings but share something vital with them…..love your neighbor as yourself because essentially your neighbor IS yourself." Inner Christianity, A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition (Richard Smoley)

11		"Spirit works to bring persons together today around the Good News of humanity's power and responsibility to heal Mother Earth, to celebrate our shared existence, and to revere creation." Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

12		"The Kingdom of God is not imminent but immanent; it is not 'among you', about suddenly to break like a thunderstorm, but 'within you', ready to be expressed the moment you understand your latent, common nature and how you must and can transcend your individuality, your egotism, which makes the world the obstacle it proves today to be to you." Gerald Heard (1889-1971), English author and philosopher, 'The Third Morality' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

13		"Throughout the journey of the soul toward comprehension, dialogue is key." The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Karen L. King)

14		"We have different roots, traditions, and ways of seeing, but we share the common qualities of love, understanding, and acceptance. For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

15		"It can seem as if the world is falling to pieces….and yet the call keeps coming, a call, I think, which is not so much to power as to community with all those others who are wounded, whose worlds or lives also seem to be falling apart, and yet who are actually – we must believe – giving birth to something new." Veronica Brady, Australian writer The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

16		"Mankind is interdependent and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and last lesson." Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), 'The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

17		"Synthesis dictates the trend of all the evolutionary processes today; all is working towards larger unified blocs, towards amalgamations, international relationships, global planning, brotherhood, economic fusion, the free flow of commodities everywhere, interdependence, fellowship of faiths, movements based upon the welfare of humanity as a whole, and ideological concepts which deal with wholes and which militate against division, separation and isolation." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

18		"In the mad rush for security and peace, there is too often an escape from the person to an outer world of authority, where responsibility may be laid at the door of someone else. Yet there can be no peace that does not come from the depths of our own being, no security that does not arise from the love within, and no knowledge that does not proclaim the unity of the person in the greater community of creation." Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights (Martin Israel)

19		"We are all part of one spiritual family." Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (Caroline Myss)

20		"Just as drops of water lost within the vast sheets of oceans participate in all sorts of common chemical, thermal or capillary relationships; so, at a higher degree of reality, no living mass (whether it is the whole biosphere or a fraction of it) is conceivable… except as permeated and animated by certain forces of solidarity which bring the paricular forms into balance and control the unifying currents within the All." The Vision of the Past (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

21		"Wholeness, according to the perennial psychology, is WHAT is real and ALL that is real. A radically separate, isolated and bounded entity does not exist anywhere. There are no seams in the world, in things, in people or in God." The Atman Project (Ken Wilber)

22		"There are NO radically separate entities anywhere – the boundary between subject and object is ultimately illusory." The Atman Project (Ken Wilber)

23		"When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

24		"People will join together in clusters in their communities, towns, and villages, connecting up with other groups around the world via a network created by the lot of them and facilitated by today's communication technologies." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

25		"Now we are moving back toward community – because we need it to happen." Gay Luce The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)