Many / One

A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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1		"Optimism is a choice. A future can be built on optimism but not on its opposite."

2		"The apprehension of the intrinsic interconnectedness of all leads organically to a compassion for all, especially in the concrete existential situations of life as we meet others each day. Simply put, when we realize we are all in this together, our kindness and understanding grows. We are all related; we are all responsible for one another."

3		"True community includes those we disagree with. Community building, whether on our block or across national or cultural divides, is the great work of our new millennium."

4		"We are only really happy in the long run if we are committed to virtue, allowing our character to be schooled and formed by its precious wisdom. When we are truly in harmony with the Divine, others, nature, and ourselves, we are naturally virtuous and other will know it!"

5		"The human body is His sitar. He draws the strings, and out of it comes the music of the inner universe." Kabir

6		"Sometimes the right sentence will open us to experiences and world-views we never imagined before. They might appear just when we need them, giving us guidance, courage, vision, and inspiration. They are seeds of wisdom that can provide direction, change, or even a course for transformation."

7		"People see God every day; they just don't recognize him." Pearl Bailey, American singer

8		"This life is not separate from the eternal."

9		"The spiritual journey is not to a place, but to the ultimate reality of Divine Consciousness. There is thus no distance involved in the inner sojourn. The spiritual journey is a process that reveals the end, the destination, the goal that is essentially changeless: union with God. And each one of us is a member of the Divine Family."

10		"There is a moral causality at work in the universe….We all know this truth to some extent."

11		"To love is to think, speak, and act according to the spititual knowledge that we are infinitely loved by God and called to make that love visible in the world." Henri Nouwen

12		"The ultimate work of civilization is the unfolding of ever-deeper spiritual understanding." Arnold Toynbee

13		"If we are to realize our potential, we must recognize our nature as sharers in God's being, participants in the infinite love that God is."

14		"Attaining harmony with the Source happens naturally when we are in relationship with it, a relationship characterized by the deepest sense of oneness."

15		"Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you." Paramahansa Yogananda

16		"Small good works have results we do not foresee; their spiritual effects in the world are often unknown to us, but they are real."

17		"One of the goals of life is to learn the value of community, of interconnectedness, our oneness in the Divine Reality."

18		"Everything is linked with everything else; so divine essence is below as well as above, in heaven and on earth. There is nothing else." Moses deLeon (d. 1305), Spanish Jewish mystic

19		"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth." Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author

20		"God is everywhere, in every being and in every situation, in the cosmos and the natural world, in our loved ones, our friends, just as he is in the stranger, our neighbors, our pets, and very pointedly in the suffering."

21		"Our journey to God is actually a journey of self-discovery in the Divine."

22		"We are not actually separate from anyone or anything; we are intimately connected with all. This is a profoundly liberating realization – an overpowering, overarching principle in every tradition."

23		"Before the Unconditioned, the conditioned dances: 'Thou and I are one!' this trumpet proclaims." Kabir

24		"The destiny of humanity…is a process of going back to the source and origin. And that source and origin is a supreme state of independence, a supreme state of consciousness, transcending all vexing limitations, infinite, boundless, eternal, beyond time and space." Swami Chidananda

25		"This much is certain, that once we make up our minds to seek God, he is already seeking us much more eagerly, and he is not going to let anything happen to prevent his purpose." Thomas Keating