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1 "When the intellect is rich in the knowledge of the One, the senses will be completely under control." St. Thalassios the Libyan, 'Second Century' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

2 "When we mentally identify with the realm of the spirit, we see endless love, unlimited possibility, and the oneness of all things." The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (Marianne Williamson)

3 "In its highest unity, all that moves us in feeling is one….our being and living is a being and living in and through God." Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834), German theologian The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

4 "There is but one Life permeating all forms." Esoteric Healing (Alice A. Bailey)

5 “All things proceed from the meditation of the One.” Collected Works (Carl Jung)

6 "You are the one God, hidden in all. You are everywhere, the inner Self of all, the seer of deeds, dwelling in all, the uninvolved witness, knowing all, pure Consciousness." Shvetashvatara Upanishad The Upanishads, selections translated by Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell (Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell, translators)

7 "What all schools of wisdom and spirituality have taught us is true. All is one." Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era (Meredith L. Young)

8 "Think your way towards the principle of Oneness as far as you possibly can." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

9 "The homogeneous is the cause of the heterogeneous, unity produces diversity, the One is responsible for the many." The Light of the Soul (Alice A. Bailey)

10 "We Are All One. There is great peace in that, and great comfort. My peace I give to you. Peace be with you." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

11 "A great and eternal fact began dawning over the horizon of my awareness. This: that in reality, there were no separating barriers between one living thing and another. That innately, I and every living thing were needed individual parts, or expressions in the forever functioning of the inseparable oneness of all life. And this is true regardless of all surface appearances and seemings to the contrary." The Language of Silence (J. Allen Boone)

12 “There is one universal harmony.” Plotinus, ‘Enneads’ Arcana Mundi (Georg Luck)

13 "The One who speaks to us is not far away – by no means. He is more present to us than we are to ourselves." Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form (M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.)

14 "If we treat everything as alive, intelligent and part of the One Life, our own life is greatly enriched." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

15 "There is a supreme Ruler of all things, God, ever One." Philolaus, 5th century Pythagorean philosopher The New Testament Background: Selected Documents (C. K. Barrett, editor)

16 "We are all one in Thee, for all are Thine." William Walsham How (1823-1897), English bishop and hymn-writer The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

17 "All life is one, with a boundless variety of manifestations." The Language of Silence (J. Allen Boone)

18 "Every creature reacts to and acts upon its environment, for all is one." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

19 "The mystic knows that in some mysterious and indescribable manner God and his universe are one." Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

20 "The early Christian mystics referred to the quest for wholeness as the way of 'oneing'. Oneing is active everywhere: in art, poetry, the human body and psyche, the eternal wisdom in a great many of the world's traditional cosmologies….and above all in Nature." The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

21 "The Tantric-Hindu theory of the creation of the world holds that Nature as a whole is the Dream of the One Mind." Seeing With the Mind's Eye (Mike Samuels, M.D. and Nancy Samuels)

22 “There is in fact one substance in which everything is contained.” ‘VIII Exercitatio in Turbam’ Collected Works (Carl Jung)

23 "Consciousness is the ground of being; it is the one and only, the absolute." Amit Goswami The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

24 "The One created you." The Light of Love (Patricia Devlin)

25 "At the root of all mystic experience is the knowledge which comes from the first touch of the sacred upon a person, that there is but one source for all things." One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality (Stephen Harrod Buhner)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite