Many / One

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1		"The Self that is here in a person, and the Self that is there in the sun, He is one." Taittiriya Upanishad The Upanishads, selections translated by Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell (Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell, translators)

2		"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)

3		"In essence we are all one." The Path of Transformation, How Healing Ourselves Can Change The World (Shakti Gawain)

4		"Survival in our world today means that we must have instant perception of oneness – of love – of compassion with everyone and understanding of everything around us." Handbook to Higher Consciousness (Ken Keyes, Jr.)

5		"Despite ordinary appearances, our inner life and the outer life of the world are deeply interrelated….in some sense, All is One." Saints and Madmen: Psychiatry Opens its Doors to Religion (Russell Shorto)

6		"Say 'One' with your life." The Search for the Beloved (Jean Houston)

7		"In the ultimate depths, everything good and true that people have ever known, thought, or lived comes from the one source of light. Our vocation is to make the way free for it." Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935), German founder of Christian communal movement in America The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

8		"We are all One, in God." The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space (John C. Lilly, M.D.)

9		"All the sounds of nature blend themselves into one tone." The Astral Body (Arthur E. Powell)

10		"In Hermeticism and Jungian psychology, the seeming destruction which the antagonist wreaks (death, swallowing, dismemberment, etc.) works to the will of the One in accomplishing the higher purpose of integration and rebirth…..personal adversity has a long-range regenerative effect." Tarot Revelations (Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts)

11		"We live in a veritable sea of moving forces, qualified in countless ways, conditioned by countless minds….yet all of them perforce finding place in the mind content of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

12		"At every level – from the atom and its parts through the myriad forms of life to the farthest stars and galaxies – all is permeated by one Life." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

13		"All are bound together as the variously functioning organs of a single mighty organism." The Flight of the Wild Gander (Joseph Campbell)

14		“In the one thing are hidden all parts.” Laurentius Ventura, 16th century Venetian physician Collected Works (Carl Jung)

15		"Spirit exists, God exists, a Supreme Reality exists. Brahman, Dharmakaya, Kether, Tao, Allah, Shiva, Yahweh, Aton – they call Him many who is really One." Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Ken Wilber)

16		"The Deity is one." St. John of Damascus, 'Exposition of the Orthodox Faith', (8th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

17		"Our unity with the world-being is the consciousness of a Self which at one and the same time cosmicises in the world and individualizes through the individual, and both in that world-being and in this individual being and in all individual beings it is aware of the same Self manifesting and experiencing its various manifestations." A Greater Psychology, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought (Sri Aurobindo, edited by A. S. Dalal)

18		"That all-sufficient life, primal, life in One, who can regard it without longing, disdainful of all else?" Plotinus Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)

19		"All gestures, words, acts and events are equivalent in value – all are manifestations of the one consciousness which pervades everything." Psychedelic Experience, A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert)

20		"Infinite, all-pervading and all-embracing Consciousness is both One and Many, Only and All, Source and Suchness, Cause and Condition, such that all things are only a gesture of this One, and all forms a play upon it. As Infinity, it demands wonder; as God, it demands worship; as Truth, it demands wisdom; and as one's true Self it demands identity." The Atman Project (Ken Wilber)

21		"Realisation of the unity of life solves problems of human relations, personal, national and international. All are one, and realisation of this fact by a sufficient number of people will bring world peace." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

22		"Anyone who is intent upon knowing the One Reality finds the One Reality everywhere." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

23		"Indeed in no being is it possible to discover a nature so independent that it could exist without partaking in that one and only true being." St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

24		"I accomplish everything through the Good One, for this is the union of the truth." The Second Treatise of the Great Seth (early Christian Gnostic text) The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor)

25		"Consciousness is One." The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment (Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)