Many / One

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1		"We cannot get away from one ultimate enveloping cause, present in all causes and constituting their essential nature."

2		"Anyone who is intent upon knowing the One Reality finds the One Reality everywhere."

3		"Everything depends upon everything else, and, in fact, IS everything else as well as itself."

4		"The aim is direct knowledge of the One Reality, and the process begins with the hearing of testimony, goes on to reasoning, and ends with direct vision of the truth of the statement or experience being pondered on."

5		"We are brothers; sons of one sweet mother."

6		"Somehow everything is Brahman. We have constantly to remind ourselves of this piece of knowledge and then we shall value our present experience."

7		"The whole reflects into every part."

8		"There is something marvellous in the power within a seed, and when that seed is the human soul, containing the powers of will, thought and love, no one should dare to measure its possibilities by an undeveloped imagination…it is for him to be his own gardener, to understand his own destiny, and to make his circumstances assist him in its swift achievement."

9		"One thing is sure – all is one; the world, mind and all."

10		"That the whole world is constituted of the One Reality is one of the essential principles of Vedantic thought."

11		"The one cause – which is the Whole – is what existence is and what we are."

12		"Things are not independent, clear-cut, definite-boundaried objects….Each one is what it is because there is a principle of oneness which is the essential cause and basis of all. Each is in some way all. That is the nature of being. Nothing IS that is not essentially all."

13		"The world is of one piece, the same spirit which is in the saddle in the globe is also in the atom."

14		"Everything is in intimate touch with other things….with no empty space between. This is a dance in which the partners are holding each other closely."

15		"Being is one, though named variously."

16		"Man CAN KNOW that one reality – men have known it in the past and can do so now."

17		"The Vedanta Philosophy has as its basis the belief that the universe of our experience is only one reality and it can be known."

18		"There is no complete error, no complete ignorance – ever. In the world what resists us helps us, as the ground which obstructs our feet, but is necessary in walking. There is no escape from the self."

19		"My I and every I is that one I, the Glorious Presence….the mystery of mysteries, the joy of joys, the presence of all in each…variety mysteriously governed by unity. This is the principle of the whole – the ultimate self-existent power – which governs evolution from within."

20		"In that fullness of unity the whole is fully present in the part."

21		"The earth is honey for all beings; all beings are honey for the earth also -…It is the self, the immortal, Brahman, all. Just as all the spokes of a cartwheel are fixed in the nave and the circumference, so are all beings fitted in the self, which is without before or after, or inside or outside, the knower of all." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, II, 5

22		"A man does not understand anything unless he loves it." Goethe

23		"Being IS unity."

24		"Knowledge depends principally on a mental act of unity. The advance of knowledge is the discovery of unity."

25		"If I were to try to name the new era, I would say it is characterized, whether consciously or not, by an inward-rising feeling of sympathy and companionship with other men and all things."