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1		"The sum of all things being the Good, it is natural that all things should partake of the Good and be arranged in combinations that are harmonious. Harmony is the manifesting expression of the Will of the eternal Good." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

2		"It is because we don't know Who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal Ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been." The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

3		“Let us look at the world through the eyes of those dreamers who have dared to believe that the good in human nature would ultimately blossom forth and regenerate the entire social system.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

4		"The goodness of God keeps the wheels of the universe whirring;…We set our feet on a road because there is goodness at the end of it; we keep our hands at a task because the goodness at the end of it makes all the labor well worthwhile; our minds probe into every corner of the universe because our hearts are hungry for the goodness to be discovered in the universe and its Maker." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

5		"Contemplate within yourself the implications of Goodwill as they are carried out by a conscious Humanity. Make a plan as to how you may demonstrate Goodwill in your own way in the world." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

6		"Everything which is, is good; and everything which is, is true." Robert Grosseteste (ca.1175-1253), 'On Truth' Selections From Medieval Philosophers (Richard McKeon, editor and translator)

7		"Good is latent in every living thing, and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love." Kinship With All Life (J. Allen Boone)

8		"The Good is the cause of life, of thought, of being." Plotinus, 'Beauty' The Essential Plotinus (Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)

9		"Goodness expresses perfection, which is something desirable, and hence it expresses something final." Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas (Anton C. Pegis, editor)

10		"Seen in perspective, the world is ultimately benign." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

11		"Morality is generally regarded as a system of actions and relationships that are biologically secondary, less immediate and less physical than material or vital relationships. This is a great mistake. One has only to study, from the point of view of creative union, its role in the evolution of living beings, in order to see how profound is the morphogenic power of the Good." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

12		"God deliberately brings about multitude and distinction in order that the divine goodness may be brought forth and shared in many measures. There is beauty in the very diversity." Thomas Aquinas, CT 1, 102 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

13		"The more the soul fills itself with the true and the good, the wider and the more comprehensive becomes the eternal in it." The Essential Steiner (Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)

14		"This essential Good, by the very fact of its existence, extends goodness into all things. Think of how it is with our sun….by the very fact of its existence it gives light to whatever is able to partake of its light. So it is with the Good. Existing far above the sun, an archetype far superior to its dull image, it sends the rays of its undivided goodness to everything with the capacity to receive it. These rays are responsible for all intelligible and intelligent beings, for every power and every activity….Their longing for the Good makes them what they are and confers on them their well-being. Shaped by what they yearn for, they exemplify goodness and, as the Law of God requires of them, they share with (all) the good gifts which have come their way." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

15		"No effort for human good is wasted, no good work fails. The form in which the work is embodied may crumble, but the life remains." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)

16		"The goodness in everyone's heart CAN be realized without doubt." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa)

17		"God is infinite Goodness….God is infinite Goodwill." Following the Holy Spirit (Rev. Walter Van DePutte)

18		"Hold for certain that what happens to you internally and externally is for the best." J. P. deCaussade (1675-1751), French priest, teacher The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

19		"In the final good designed by Him not a cell of Being will be found missing or unfulfilled." R. H. J. Steuart, S.J. (1874-1948), English priest, 'The Inward Vision' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

20		"Our will, the faculty of our desire and our love, is in ceaseless pursuit of goodness." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

21		"People need to accept the spiritual freedom, life, and peace that they already possess because their true nature is rooted in the Good." The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Karen L. King)

22		"The child looks out to the world for its instruction. The adult turns within and struggles there until, when the Divine Child is found, he looks outward again in new and constant anticipation of Good." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)

23		"You were born with an in-built recognition of your own goodness. You were born with an inner recognition of your rightness in the universe…You are born loving. You are born compassionate….You are born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can individually contribute to the world, and to attain a state of being that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the world." The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (Jane Roberts)

24		"Only God, only an infinite being, can satisfy man's infinite craving for all the good there is." The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1 (Mortimer J. Adler, editor)

25		"There is something basically good about our existence as human beings. Unless we can discover that ground of goodness in our own lives, we cannot hope to improve the lives of others." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa)