Many / One

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1		"It could be said that Jesus' experience both contains advaitic [non-dualistic] experience and proceeds towards a goal. It reaches its climax in the union of a personal encounter: i.e., it is in a perpetual dynamic of becoming one."

2		"The freedom of the one reality is the self-determination to realize love."

3		"God as creator cannot be experienced in any other way than as an ever present milieu."

4		"The world…is God's creation and, as such, is a determined moment in God's self-realization."

5		"When the dialogue partner becomes for me a source of my own self-understanding, he/she is also a source of my understanding of God."

6		"Insofar as humans become aware of being and recognize atman they realize not only their own identity -…but they also integrate the polarity of difference and identity in the participatory act of lovingly becoming one."

7		"The eternal is IN the temporal and the temporal IN the eternal."

8		"Each partner is a light for the other and enables him/her to see better the depths of his/her own tradition. The religion of the partner is like a sounding board in which one's own terms and symbols acquire new over- or undertones."

9		"There is no chaos, forsaken by God, but only the one reality as an ordered whole, filled with divine power."

10		"God is the human person's true being."

11		"Our 'own' consciousness is like a light which is switched on in the meeting with another. What is new in today's interreligious situation could be described as a worldwide and conscious application of this principle to interreligious dialogue, with the goal of cooperation in all areas of life."

12		"Love is the very structure of the one reality."

13		"Reality in itself is not a dead tranquility, nor a mechanical process, but expansiveness and the attraction of love."

14		"Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment."

15		"Whoever recognizes in atman (the Self) the unity of reality is free from fear. For fear arises when there is an other who poses a threat. But atman is knowledge, and for it there is no other that is not already essentially a self. Non-dulaity is freedom from fear."

16		"On the grounds of a basic unity or karmic connectedness of all things, nothing can be lost, nothing can be outside."

17		"The divinity is One reality which, because of our manner of seeing it, appears in different hypostases which are perfect in themselves."

18		"The peace of God is a unity which is realized in the process of love."

19		"God is the ground and mystery of creation who binds himself to forms yet is not held bound by them."

20		"Humans are a true mirror-image of God. They project the manifold, but remain one and also know it, or at least can come to know it, because their true nature as pure consciousness is the integrating power of the One."

21		"Human freedom consists in knowing the unity of atman (the Self) and the cosmic order."

22		"Through the unifying power of love of the Spirit, creation reaches completion; i.e., it attains its essence."

23		"In an image from the German mystics, human life is like a flower, which willingly unfolds in order to receive the rays of the sun."

24		"Ethics is rooted in the dynamism of love."

25		"The personal center of the individual is essentially the Self (atman), which is beyond the particularities of physical-psychic-mental life or of any changeable things or of change as such."