Many / One

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1		"Psychological development in humans has the same goal as natural evolution: the production of ever-higher unities. And since the ultimate Unity is Buddha, God, or Atman (to use those terms in their broadest sense as 'ultimate reality'), it follows that psychological growth aims at Atman."

2		"All sentient beings possess the Buddha Nature." The Nirvana Sutra

3		"One's real Nature is indeed infinite and eternal."

4		"Evolution – wherever it appears – manifests itself as a series of transcendences, of ascents, of emergences – and emergences of higher-order WHOLES."

5		"ALL individuals are touched by God, and all sentient entities intuit God."

6		"From the very beginning, all creatures intuit God. From the start, men and women intuit their prior Atman nature, and this acts like a huge unconscious magnet, so to speak, drawing them onward and upward toward that perfect release in the superconscious All."

7		"According to the perennial philosophy, the re-discovery of this infinite and eternal Wholeness is men and women's single greatest need and want."

8		"Infinite, all-pervading and all-embracing Consciousness is both One and Many, Only and All, Source and Suchness, Cause and Condition, such that all things are only a gesture of this One, and all forms a play upon it. As Infinity, it demands wonder; as God, it demands worship; as Truth, it demands wisdom; and as one's true Self it demands identity."

9		"Evolution continues until there is only Unity, ultimate in all directions."

10		"At the beginning of THIS and every moment, each individual IS God as the Clear Light."

11		"At its peak, the soul becomes one, literally one, with the deity-form, with the dhyani-Buddha, with God. One dissolves into Deity, as Deity – that Deity which, from the beginning, has been one's own Self or highest Archetype. In this way only could St. Clement say that he who knows himself knows God." 69

12		"As Aristotle put it, when all potential has been actualized, the result is God."

13		"Just as your eye can take in or see all four corners of this page in a single glance, so the eye of Eternity sees all time in one Moment. All of eternity is in every point of time, so that all time is Present in Eternity."

14		"All things and events, while remaining perfectly separate and discrete, are only One."

15		"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."

16		"Each successive stage achieves a higher-order unity, and this continues until there is ONLY Unity."

17		"Every individual – every sentient being – constantly intuits that his prior Nature IS the infinite and eternal, All and Whole."

18		"Every conscious being, precisely as he or she is, is a perfect embodiment and expression of the Ultimate. What every individual is, before he is anything else, is the Dharmakaya – the Body of very Truth."

19		"There are NO radically separate entities anywhere – the boundary between subject and object is ultimately illusory."

20		"Each stage of psychological growth is a step closer to God."

21		"The ultimate psychology is a psychology of fundamental Wholeness, or the superconscious All."

22		"Man is born the son of God, participating totally in the nature of the Supreme Principle of the Universe." Hubert Benoit, 'The Supreme Doctrine'

23		"This entire movement of evolution simply continues from unity to unity until there is only Unity."

24		"The eternal present underlies and embraces all duration."

25		"Just as the arms and legs and fingers are quite different entities but also are parts of one body, so all things and events in the universe are aspects of one fundamental Whole."