Many / One

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1		"We are brothers and sisters in our bodies by the interactions of physical molecules. We are brothers and sisters in our minds by that interaction of mental images and mental pictures with which every one of us is constantly affecting others. We are brothers and sisters in our spirits, above all." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)

2		"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillments only love." Luther Burbank, American botanist Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)

3		"The necessary enlivening of human thinking and the respiritualization of intelligence is a movement initiated from within the soul forces of each individual." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

4		"The intellectual soul as comprehending universals has a power extending to the infinite. Since our intellect is infinite in power, so it knows the infinite….Aristotle said that the soul is in a certain sense 'all things'. The human being is called 'a little world' because all creatures of the world are in a way found in the human being…indeed, each intellectual substance is, in a way, all things. For it may comprehend the entirety of being through its intellect." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica', 'Summa contra Gentiles' Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

5		"Humanity must gather its genius, energy, and love and pour it onto the present." John Hogue, 'Nostradamus: Complete Prophecies' Saint Germain's Prophecy for the New Millennium (Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

6		"The earth contains a blueprint of the human psyche, a map of our innate character. It is as accurate an indicator of who we are as the narrow-ribboned chromosomes that determine our intelligence and genetic sensitivities." A Passion for This Earth, Exploring a New Partnership of Man, Woman & Nature (Valerie Andrews)

7		"Both mankind as a whole and each individual soul is evolving, working its way through the cycle of return to God." Theosophy, The Wisdom of the Ages (Cherry Gilchrist)

8		"Humanity is in an ongoing process of conscious evolution. At this time, we are taking a giant step in consciousness – a great leap in that evolutionary process." The Path of Transformation, How Healing Ourselves Can Change The World (Shakti Gawain)

9		"You were created, all of you, in the 'image and likeness of God.'" Questions and Answers on Conversations With God (Neale Donald Walsch)

10		"The deity-to-be is already present embryonically within every human being." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

11		"What is the work of works for man if not to establish, in and by each one of us, an absolutely original centre in which the universe reflects itself in a unique and inimitable way? And those centres are our very selves and personalities." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

12		"Ours is the task to build humanity ever anew, leading it on from strength to strength, towards its full fruition, the apex of its glory." Regents of the Seven Spheres (H. K. Challoner)

13		"Heaven is my father and earth is my mother, and even such a small being as I finds an intimate place in their midst. Therefore, that which fills the universe I regard as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions." Chang Tsai (1020-1077), Confucian master The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

14		"You ARE all counterparts of each other….By really understanding this you could come to terms with the ideas of brotherhood that religions have taught for so long." The 'Unknown' Reality (Jane Roberts)

15		"The Divine Child of you and the Divine Child of me is the same One, deep in the heart of God." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)

16		"Human nature mirrors outer nature." A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

17		"The all-powerful God….is in every one of us." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

18		"The old adage, We are the microcosm of the macrocosm, suggests that everything which exists in the universe also exists in the human body. This supports the fact of the interrelationship of all things." The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

19		"More and more, as we study and collate all the available evidence, this fact – this law – is borne in on us: that the general movement of human consciousness, when it obeys its innate tendency to transcendence, is always the same. There is only one road from Appearance to Reality." Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

20		"Human beings are part of the cosmic flow, linked to an ever-expanding network of relationships." Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

21		“People of different societies and cultures the world over think and feel and react in similar ways. They have the same types of dreams, hopes, fears, problems….and all this is reflected partly in language, myth, and literature, partly in folklore, ritual, and religion.” Arcana Mundi (Georg Luck)

22		"Individual consciousness in its pure, unclouded state is one with God or the One Life that sustains the cosmos." The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

23		"The soul is an emanation of the Divinity, a part of the soul of the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and essayist, Journals for 1830 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

24		"Know that the human soul is noble and exalted." Ibn 'Ezra Present at Sinai, The Giving of the Law (S. Y. Agnon, compiler)

25		"Is not the sea – though vast and deep – a single drop? Is not the Earth – though flung so far – a single sphere? Are not the spheres – though numberless – a single universe? Likewise is mankind but a single Man – likewise is Man, with all his worlds, a singleness complete." Mikhail Naimy (1889-1988), 'The Book of Mirdad – A Lighthouse and a Haven' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)