Many / One

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1		"Every being can subsist and hold together only through confluence with others."

2		"Basically, the whole of the world's psychism [psyche] gravitates towards a single centre."

3		"Like particles immersed in one and the same spiritual fluid, souls cannot think or pray or act or move, without waves being produced, even by the most insignificant among them, which set the others in motion."

4		"God is at work within life. He helps it, raises it up, gives it the impulse that drives it along, the appetite that attracts it, the growth that transforms it. I can feel God, touch Him, 'live' Him in the deep biological current that runs through my soul."

5		"Human monads are atoms immersed in, nourished by, and carried along by one and the same unfathomable primitive substance; they are elements that are combined and given a special character by a network of intimate interconnections, in order so to constitute a higher unity."

6		"We are the countless centres of one and the same sphere."

7		"Charity [love] safeguards the development of the universe and keeps it to the true path of its progress. Moral effort is the continuation in our souls of the same dynamic effort that gave us our bodies."

8		"Through God, all bodies come together, exert influence upon one another and sustain one another in the unity of the all-embracing sphere."

9		"There is only ONE SINGLE CENTER in the universe…it impels the whole of creation along one and the same line, first towards the fullest development of consciousness, and later towards the highest degree of holiness."

10		"Of one thing, at least, we may be certain: we have all the strength necessary to complete the work of Spirit upon earth. Our future is in our own hands."

11		"The deeper I descend into myself, the more I find God at the heart of my being."

12		"In the domain of morality the Divine and the Terrestrial meet and are fused into one."

13		"Every encounter that brings me a caress, that spurs me on, that comes as a shock to me, that bruises or breaks me, is a contact with the hand of God, which assumes countless forms and yet always commands our worship. Every element of which I am made up is an overflow from God."

14		"The final purpose of providence is the influence of the transcendent Centre whose unerring action can infallibly guide chance toward its determined end."

15		"Every being…has its own particular essence crowned by a certain quality, a certain form (common to all) which makes it an integral, rightly adapted, part of the single Whole with which it shares a natural harmony."

16		"Unity is destined to become more and more fully realized."

17		"Peace is the awareness of Unity."

18		"I dreamed of a common centre into which all things would drive the most vital roots of their sensibility and energy; a universal Centre, living and benign, that would itself reinforce our desire to do what is right, when we are at a loss to express it, or preserve it, or realize it."

19		"Everything that is active, that moves or breathes, every physical, astral, or animate energy, every fragment of force, every spark of life, is equally sacred; for, in the humblest atom and the most brilliant star, in the lowest insect and the finest intelligence, there is the radiant smile and thrill of the same Absolute."

20		"Seek in utter darkness the dawn of God."

21		"Love is the conscious mark in us of the act that creates us by melting us into one."

22		"The condition of human progress is that men must at last cease to live in isolation; they must learn to recognize a common goal for their lives…and the fiery energies still undoubtedly smouldering in men must be fanned into flame and directed in common towards that end – not in an individual, not in a national, nor in a social, but in a HUMAN effort."

23		"This is the classic teaching: God, who is 'his own being' is at the same time 'the being of all'."

24		"Only a long and patient struggle can teach us the operative power of faith and show us what it can achieve."

25		"Blessings on the philosophy that shows us that the cohesion of things is destined to be completed!"