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1		"The earth is honey for all beings; all beings are honey for the earth also -…It is the self, the immortal, Brahman, all. Just as all the spokes of a cartwheel are fixed in the nave and the circumference, so are all beings fitted in the self, which is without before or after, or inside or outside, the knower of all." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, II, 5 The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

2		"Let us suggest a way to move through your day. Against all that your separated senses tell you, try to see through the unity of the inner eye. It sees the One – the Light – the Wholeness. So, as you walk, as you move, remember you can see with this inner eye. You do it by reminding yourself that one thing is not more important than another. You look at everything with the intention of seeing the One in all things. You carry with you the intention to see the Wholeness of Consciousness." Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream (Mary-Margaret Moore)

3		"Man is a microcosm and is not separated from the macrocosm by any fixed barriers." The Secret of the Golden Flower (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

4		"The world's apparent brokenness conceals a hidden unity." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning (Winifred Gallagher)

5		"Seen from space, Earth has no national borders, no military zones, no visible fences. Quite the opposite. You can see how storm systems swirling above a continent may well affect the grain yield half a world away. The entire atmosphere of the planet – all the air we breathe, all the sky we fly through, even the ozone layer – is visible as the thinnest rind. The picture eloquently reminds one that Earth is a single organism." Diane Ackerman, 'The Rarest of the Rare' Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

6		"There is in the universe only one single individuality (one single monad), that of the whole." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

7		"We each have an opportunity right now to contribute to the evolution of ourselves, our species, and the planet as a whole. Everyone is needed. Everyone's genius fits into some evolving need of the whole system." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Awakening to Our Genius: The Heroine's Journey' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

8		"If one suffers, the whole consciousness of the Earth partakes of that, and when one rejoices, the whole consciousness knows and rejoices." To Hear the Angels Sing (Dorothy Maclean)

9		"If we see the opposites in ourselves, we are less likely to judge and blame others. If we have identified too closely with the light, have too idealized an image of ourselves, then our shadow will surely come up and hit us on the backside. The same is true if we have identified with our negative side; we could be struck from behind by our goodness. Either position is a denial of our wholeness." Dancing in the Flames, The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness (Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson)

10		"The living world consists of a spontaneous cooperation that exists between the smallest and the highest, the greatest and the lowly, between the atoms and the molecules and the conscious, reasoning mind." The Nature of Personal Reality (Jane Roberts)

11		"The ancient and long-obsolete idea of man as a microcosm contains a supreme psychological truth that has yet to be discovered…..An inkling of this is to be found in the words of Origen: 'Understand that thou art a second world in miniature, and that the sun and the moon are within thee, and also the stars.' (Homiliae in Leviticum)" 'Psychology of the Transference', CW 16 Basic Writings of C G Jung (V S DeLasslo, editor)

12		"The psyche contains an indwelling sense of its destiny of wholeness." The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (Stephan A. Hoeller)

13		"In some reports, particularly of the mystic experience or the religious experience or philosophical experience, the whole of the world is seen as unity, as a single rich live entity. In other of the peak experiences, most particularly the love experience and the aesthetic experience, one small part of the world is perceived as if it were for the moment all of the world." Toward A Psychology of Being (Abraham Maslow)

14		"We cannot possibly see the whole of what we are, if we persist in seeing the parts of our nature and nature's parts as disassociated entities. Defining things without considering their relationships with other things is a fatal flaw in descriptive analysis." Breaking the Mind Barrier (Todd Siler)

15		"Our neighbor is not simply 'the Other.' He or she reveals to us that unifyng link which binds us together." Jay G. Williams, 'How Pleasant It Is…' The American Theosophist (various)

16		"The divine will is the wholeness, the good and the true in all things. Like God, the universal Being, it is manifest in everything." Jean-Pierre deCaussade (1675-1751), French priest and author Devotional Classics (Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors)

17		"I am part of the sun as my eyes are part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human soul." D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), 'Apocalypse' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

18		"The practice of looking deeply reveals to us that one thing is made up of all other things. One thing contains the whole universe." Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers (Thich Nhat Hanh)

19		"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." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

20		"In its farthest reaches, the psyche of each of us is essentially commensurate with all of existence and ultimately identical with the cosmic creative principle itself. This conclusion, while seriously challenging the worldview of modern technological societies, is in far-reaching agreement with the image of reality found in the great spiritual and mystical traditions of the world." The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (Stanislav Grof)

21		"The existential multiplicity and separativeness of thngs is limited and transitory, for, thanks to the universal concatenation, they return to the principal Unity, the supreme Source of All, from which they came." Editors The Philokalia, volume 4 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)

22		"Everyone you meet is your mirror." Handbook to Higher Consciousness (Ken Keyes, Jr.)

23		"Existence operates in terms of wholes – in terms of organized systems of activity and consciousness – which are all lesser wholes within greater wholes and at the same time greater wholes encompassing a myriad of lesser units. At the physical level we see the holarchic series: atoms, molecules, cells, living organisms, planets, solar systems, galaxies, etc. Each new class includes a myriad of entities of the preceding class and is itself one of many components in a still more inclusive class." Dane Rudhyar, 'The Transmutation of Karma into Dharma' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

24		"Whom God remembers must be whole. And God has never forgotten what makes Him whole. In your completion lies the memory of His Wholeness and His gratitude to you for His completion." A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind (Tara Singh)

25		"In a sense our actions do affect all mankind. We tend to see our lives as in a limited sphere, our influence extending only to those in our immediate vicinity. But the universe is not created from isolated bits. It is a vast network of interconnections in all directions, at all levels. Our actions do not stop at the periphery of our vision but affect the whole of life in some measure, one way or another." Shirley Nicholson, 'Karma as Organic Process' Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony (V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)

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