Many / One

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1		“All things are one in essence.”

2		“Having ultimately attained through right thinking, right feeling, and right living to the condition of the beautiful within ourselves, with enraptured vision we can respond in perfect measure to the eternal beauty which flows from the inexhaustible fountain of the one Good.”

3		“The establishment of the mind in wholes (unities) is essential to right thinking.”

4		"As all creatures are made in the image of their Universal Creator, it follows that each has a spiritual nature which is part of and harmonious with the spiritual nature of the universe, and also a material nature which is part of and harmonious with the cosmic body."

5		“Beauty is in the human soul, lifting us upward to ever nobler vistas of endeavor.”

6		"We are destined by Eternal Providence to become the fullness of ourselves….we shall find perfection in the consummation of the destiny for which we were first conceived."

7		"Each individual, by receding into his own divine nature, may discover within himself the divine nature of all creatures. He may even become every other creature, for that part of himself which is real is every other creature."

8		“Perfect rhythms stream continually from the splendor of Abiding Destiny.”

9		"Wholeness is an archetypal quality – an attribute of Deity. Regardless of the nature of its expression, every activity, quality, or condition is essentially a wholeness. This wholeness is made manifest by a division within itself whereby its nature becomes a mass of innumerable fragments, each of the fractions partaking of the quality resident in the original wholeness, and manifesting it through the wholeness of its own fractional part."

10		"Man, gazing into the eyes of man, beholds therein his Maker. His Creator sings to him with the voice of the wilderness, and descends upon him from the stars that spangle the heavens by night."

11		"The sum of all individual minds is the one Universal Mind, so that in the last analysis, gods, men, and worlds are each fragments of the whole."

12		“The law of the soul is love.”

13		“God is all there is….God is the heavens and the earth, and all the creatures that inhabit them.” Anonymous East Indian sage

14		"Until we are everything that we in our ignorance believe surrounds us, there is no complete consciousness. We may study the star intellectually, but we have never attained consciousness until we are the star, the stone, the heavens, and the earth. When our consciousness is perfect we extend from the heights of height to the depths of depth; we permeate the whole nature of existence; we are in everything, we are through everything, we are the whole nature of everything."

15		“To Be is to be immortal, for that which has been can never utterly cease.”

16		“Humanity’s sphere of influence is as far-reaching as creation, and what we first agitate diverges to the shores of eternity like the ripples from a stone thrown upon the surface of some placid lake.”

17		“Every human soul is innately divine.”

18		“For this age we must have a doctrine of synthesis, a code actuated and dominated by the spirit of unification.”

19		"The Beautiful is an eternal flow; it is the One in motion."

20		“Brotherhood extends to all corners of the earth, including all races and species without distinction.”

21		“When we adore the God of harmony, we shall know the inner mystery of life.”

22		“All are embraced within the span of the eternal philosophic NOW.”

23		“Think of religion as the universal adoration of creative principles common to all humanity.”

24		“Good, possessing the virtue of unity, must ever increase until it includes everything within its own nature.”

25		"The new message is the gospel of identity. It is not an effort to unite lives in a common interest, but a recognition of the fact that all forms are but manifestations of one indivisible agent….Indissoluble unity is fundamental throughout the universe."