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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"Love the beauty inside yourself and other people as much as the beauty of nature, light, color and sound perceived by the physical senses."
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"We are all interdependent."
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"Love is a time-honored way of awakening the soul."
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"As one goes further and further on the path of truth, the freedom becomes greater at every step." Hazrat Inayat Khan, Omega Institute Newsletter, 1985
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"In the psyche nothing is lost; everyone we have known becomes a part of our inner world."
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"Esoteric wisdom teaches that death is not an end, but a transformation, and that death is followed by rebirth."
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"Underlying both personal impulses to growth and all creative cultural enterprises is the fundamental impulse that seeks unitive consciousness."
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"For the awakened soul perception is a mirror, and the play of light and shadow reveals the bright radiance of eternity."
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"It is love that gives worth to being, and the mystical revelation that God is love is the sacred knowledge that can be transformed into wisdom."
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"The divinity permeates existence."
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"The circle is a symbol of wholeness, totality and individuation."
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"Human beings are part of the cosmic flow, linked to an ever-expanding network of relationships."
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"Compassion knows that the One is the Many, that the One is expressed equally in each and every being, and so each is to be treated with compassion and careā¦because each being, exactly as it is, is a perfect manifestation of Spirit. Thus compassion sees that the One is the Many." Ken Wilber, 'Sex, Ecology and Spirituality'
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"The collective dimension of the psyche encompasses the immense mythical universe and connects the individual soul to what happens to all people in all places at all times. We can therefore resonate to myths and stories from cultures other than our own when they deal with such universal themes as birth and death, joy and sorrow, hope and despair."
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"When you go around the Earth in an hour and a half, you begin to recognize that your identity is with that whole thing. That makes a changeā¦.From where you see it, the thing is a whole, and it's so beautiful." Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut
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"The one reality is, for the mystic, an object of love that draws us homeward under the guidance of the heart."
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"Freedom from fear lets us say yes to life. When we have seen past the shadow, everything can be perceived as grace."
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"Love is stronger than death. It does not die when the body dies and cannot be limited by laws or logic. Love pervades existence, even in the midst of suffering."
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"The soul comes to rest only in its true home, the Source of love."
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"Nothing is excluded from the circle of wholeness."
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"Faith can enable a person to receive divine guidance and continue spiritual practice in the face of all kinds of difficulties. Faith is a key to overcoming fear whenever we feel separate and out of touch with the deeper levels of our own being."
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"The purpose of life on earth is to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground."
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"If I put a person on a pedestal, I feel separated and somehow less than him or her. Likewise, if I look down on someone, for whatever reason, I separate myself. It is possible to see others on the same level, not looking up or down. When I do this I can see others as equally valuable parts of the whole fabric of reality of which we are all a tiny part."
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"You have only to wake up to who and what you are to discover that Spirit, as the ground of being, is always present wherever you are, whether you know it or not."
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"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person. It is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one 'object' of love." Erich Fromm
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