Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
Compiled by JoAnn Kite
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"I believe people are sacramental – the means by which God communicates God's nature to us." Dr. Tony Campolo, American Baptist minister
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"Spiritual genius is the uniquely human ability to seek life's meaning. It's the voice inside us that keeps asking What's it all about? Who am I? How can I make a difference? This inclination to wonder why we exist is not rarefied, but a basic human trait… We're born with a craving to know our larger purpose."
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"Plotinus speaks of the One as 'that fountain always on'." Huston Smith
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"I do think we're all connected. When a part of society does something special, there are ripples." Rosalie Bertell, Grey Nun of the Sacred Heart
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"Despite the chaos and confusion around us, everything is all right."
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"The awareness that comes out of prayer and the stillness of listening to the Spirit is releasing an energy for a new beginning. For now, we're in that place where we're groaning with all creation to be born anew." Bette Edl, American Franciscan hermit
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"When you talk about God, you're talking about what connects everything to everything else." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"God is mysteriously the source of our true self." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"All religions have forms of mysticism which emphasize direct awareness of and communion with the sacred. Hindu samadhi and Zen satori, Jewish devekut and Christian unio mystico, all describe intense consciousness of ultimate reality's underlying unity and goodness."
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"We're all cast in the divine image, whether we're Eskimos or Hottentots, so we're more alike than otherwise." Huston Smith
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"The Christian 'unio mystico', Jewish 'devekut', Muslin 'fana', Hindu 'samadhi', and Zen 'Kensho' manifest the same intense consciousness of ultimate reality's underlying unity and goodness."
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"We can choose to develop awareness,…. which allows us to be responsible agents instead of helpless victims." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun
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"I understand God in terms of love, compassion, justice. The Qur'an says everything in the world has been created for a just purpose." Riffat Hassan, Muslim Feminist teacher
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"God loves us a billion times more than a mother! Far beyond anything we can experience in our minds and intellects!" Karunamayi, Hindu spiritual mother
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"God is the self of the universe, so in finding your true inner self, you find God." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
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"The sacred isn't just 'up there' or in some afterlife but down here, right now."
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"Pure consciousness, called the universal Self, is all that exists."
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"There's only oneness." Karunamayi, Hindu spiritual mother
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"We're each part of something that's much bigger and better than what meets the eye, and if we keep that in mind, our hearts will be in the right place. Life will be all right, because its ups and downs will be seen as what they are – threads in a great fabric whose beauty depends on bright and dark colors."
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"Physics, biology, and other sciences increasingly reveal a complementary picture of the universe as a vast web of interrelationships."
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"Once a person truly awakens to the hidden holiness that underlies and unifies creation, his or her inevitable behavioral response is goodness, or treating others as the 'self' that all share."
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