Many / One

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1		"Events form highly integrated patterns and there is a deep relatedness running through all things."

2		"A mathematical concept or a moral concept may lead as certainly toward a sense of beauty as may a strictly aesthetic one."

3		"The truth revealed by art, by science, by intuition, by thought, is the timeless, sizeless Form of Selfhood and pure being."

4		"In the unified experience of reality the whole process of creation…is a single timeless moment of Divine self-manifestation." R. A. Nicholson, 'Commentary on Rumi'

5		"The true artist sees the harmony, the wholeness, the tendencies toward perfection in things everywhere."

6		"Seeing whole provides us with many insights. It even enables us to suspect that we endure, that our life is not a span of time bounded by a beginning and an end."

7		"What we see is no more and no less than what we are."

8		"This sense of rounded completeness is always in man's mind as a background hope to all his thoughts and activities. He imagines his own lifetime to have a rounded completeness."

9		"Art at its most elevated is not so dependent upon skill as upon virtue. Virtue is pre-eminent dedication to a life of truth."

10		"Sensitiveness to beauty brings insights and visions which humanity does not otherwise attain." Ordway Tead

11		"There is a profound relationship between creativity and quality of human character."

12		"Everything in the continuum of pure being is eternally new."

13		"The essential point emerging from the observations and conclusions of today's science is that the fundamental drive behind human progress and purpose issues from a continuous rise in levels of organization."

14		"The sense of the beautiful seems to be directly referable to the quality of wholeness or relatedness that underlies the apparently separate parts and incidents of being."

15		"The Beautiful is the Now, boundless continuum. This is the eternity to which we belong. Our eternity is now."

16		"All states of being, seen in principle, are simultaneous in the eternal now." Rene Guenon, 'La Metaphysique Orientale'

17		"Inward development of self, communication between growing selves at the altitudes of their subtlest insights; these are essential to the way forward. Deep introspection, but not alone. Introspection propelled by the incitement of shared discovery."

18		"We must nurture and not kill such germinations of faith as come to us through the ardor of our best meditations, the illumination of our most inspired dreams, the flash of vision."

19		"Relatedness is both the goal of our searching and the facilitating means."

20		"Beyond all other arts is the art of being. The need is not merely to have vision but to live it. To be, beautifully; this is the goal of our highest destiny and the clue to our eternity."

21		"We are still young and growing is not easy. But there seems to be a prevailing virtue in us, a conscience, which recalls us from our vagrancies and draws us toward the light."

22		"Being has a beauty that transcends its worst ugliness."

23		"The Beautiful is the Now, and this is the eternity to which we belong."

24		"Underlying continuity seems to characterize the flow and the flowering of all that occurs, and seems to indicate that while all things happen gradually in the time sense of human beings they may be happening instantaneously in the more absolute sense of final truth."

25		"The most ultimate particles of reality that we can imagine are themselves intangible, unreal except as 'active events'. Things are not ultimately things; they are constellations of energies."