Many / One

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1		The One remains, the many change and pass." Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Adonais' Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

2		"The confession of God's oneness, which has its roots in the divine revelation of the Old Covenant, is inseparable from the profession of God's existence and is equally fundamental." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

3		"We are one with our earth at every level." Regents of the Seven Spheres (H. K. Challoner)

4		"God cannot be separated from God and so is separate from nothing at all. God can differentiate Itself in countless ways, which It does as a means of Self-Expression, through which It becomes Self-Conscious. Yet differentiation is not division. Separation does not exist." What God Wants (Neale Donald Walsch)

5		"Before the Unconditioned, the conditioned dances: 'Thou and I are one!' this trumpet proclaims." Kabir The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

6		"In God's Mind there is no division. All is One." A Million Years to the Promised Land (Robert W. Krajenke)

7		"Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

8		"God is absolute knowledge, absolute wisdom, absolute love. By one thousand names He is known, but is only One." A Book of Angels (Sophy Burnham)

9		"One is All, by him is all, and for him is all, and in him is all." Early Alchemical saying The History of Magic and the Occult (Kurt Seligmann)

10		"All living things have their roots not only in the Earth, but in the universe itself. They all inhere in the One." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

11		"It is one world, one work, one cause under God being expressed through different channels. Rejoice and let the plan unfold." To Hear the Angels Sing (Dorothy Maclean)

12		"After all, consciousness is one." The Science of the Spoken Word (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

13		"What is is One." The Second Treatise of the Great Seth (early Christian Gnostic text), The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor)

14		"The Sacred Scripture teaches, and reason enlightened therein and therefrom by the Lord sees, that God is one." Emanuel Swedenborg A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (Samuel M. Warren, compiler)

15		"The One Cosmic Life-Consciousness, binding everything together, and permeating everything, flows through all." Lina Psaltis, introduction Dynamics of the Psychic World (Helena P. Blavatsky)

16		"'We are all', as Schopenhauer avers, 'one and the same single Being.' And the sentiment proper to this selfless realization is compassion." The Masks of God (Joseph Campbell)

17		"The radiance which emanates from the One Mind, by emanating from one's own mind, emancipates the mind." 'The Seeing of Reality' The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)

18		"All living things fit together into a single pattern." The Web of Life (John H. Storer)

19		"Oneness exists and rules completely and without escape." Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

20		“You will find nothing in the world which is not in the One….Everything owes to the One its individual existence and the process whereby it is perfected and preserved.” Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

21		"The universe is the combination of a thousand elements, and yet the expression of a single spirit." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)

22		"I have put duality away. I have seen that the two worlds are one: one I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call. He is the first, he is the last. He is the outward, he is the inward." Jalal Al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

23		"We are all really one." The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By (Carol Pearson, Ph.D.)

24		"All principles and their progeny are finally centered and rooted by their summits in the first great all-comprehending one. Thus all beings proceed from, and are comprehended in the first being; all intellects emanate from one first intellect; all souls from one first soul; all natures blossom from one first nature;…all these great monads are comprehended in the first one, from which both they and all their depending series are unfolded into light. Hence, this first one is truly the unity of unities, the monad of monads, the principle of principles, the God of Gods, one and all things, and yet one prior to all." Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

25		"All men of wisdom have one religion; they all have one caste; they all behold the face of the One!" Dadu, 16th century Indian saint-poet One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)