Many / One

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1		"Only one in all the infinite universe! The All-loving, the Perfect One!" C. M. C., anonymous author

2		"Lo! The pulsations in all matter, all spirit, throbbing forever – the eternal beats, eternal systole and dyastole of life in things – wherefrom I feel and know that death is not the ending, as we thought, but rather the real beginning – and that nothing ever is or can be lost, nor even die." Walt Whitman, 'Democratic Vistas'

3		"God and human life…are greater and better than any one has said or can say."

4		"Before and behind births and deaths, the emergence ever-more expanding." Horace Traubel

5		"All the great seers teach that God in himself is infinite love – that his manifestation, form or body is infinite wisdom – that divine love is the self-subsisting life of the universe."

6		"God IS the Cosmos."

7		"The universal scheme is woven in one piece."

8		"Existence is one eternal immensity of infinite existence, acting with infinite force, in an inevitable, infinite, therefore absolutely perfect order, in whose perfection all things and their action must of necessity be included." C. P., anonymous author

9		"That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward, we find at last within ourselves. The kingdom within! The indwelling God!" C. M. C., anonymous author

10		"The justice of God sees – in that is everything." Honore deBalzac, 'Louis Lambert'

11		"I have never really doubted for a moment that an Infinite Wisdom and Love DOES encircle all our lives." J. W. W., anonymous author

12		"The consciousness of the Deity and of the Cosmos [are] the same thing."

13		"The wise man recognizes the idea of the good within him." Plotinus

14		"All is well, always has been and will always be." C. M. C., anonymous author

15		"You are a little world formed out of the large one." Jacob Boehme

16		"The universe exists in each of its individual atoms." H. B., anonymous author

17		"There is a raying out of all orders of existence, an external emanation from the ineffable One." Plotinus

18		"The true quality of the soul is that of space, by which it is at rest, everywhere." Edward Carpenter, 'Civilization, Its Cause and Cure'

19		"In Cosmic Consciousness there is no condemnation, no sin, no evil, no death. This may be a hard saying, but it is true."

20		"In the prison One shall come; and the chains which are stronger than iron, the fetters harder than steel, shall dissolve – you shall go free forever." Edward Carpenter, 'Towards Democracy'

21		"This is the truth given age upon age to all men in all lands - the truth at last to be seen of all, in its fullness and purity: Man is to know himself, and...is not only to soar toward, but absolutely attain to heights of being and of beauty hitherto undreamed of, and bringing fairly within his realization a heaven on earth, in true grandeur and happiness." Paul Tyner

22		"I dwell this moment in the eternal Now that has ever been and will be…I am in the midst of immortal things this moment." Richard Jefferies, 'The Story of My Heart'

23		"God is all. He is not far away in the heaven; He is here. This grass under your feet is He; this bountiful harvest, that blue sky, those roses...you yourself are all one with Him." C. Y. E., anonymous author

24		"The pure in heart see the Lord as the clear mirror reflects the sun." Ramakrishna Paramahansa

25		"One IS those objects and things and persons that one perceives (and the whole universe)." Edward Carpenter