Many / One

A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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1		"Being IS unity." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

2		"Everything is linked with everything else; so divine essence is below as well as above, in heaven and on earth. There is nothing else." Moses deLeon (d. 1305), Spanish Jewish mystic The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

3		"All parts of the world communicate with one another and form one whole." Agrippa Von Nettesheim Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages (Paul Roland)

4		"An actual open psychic system, with deep intertwining roots, is uniting all kinds of consciousness; a network in which we are all connected." Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul (Jane Roberts)

5		"Nothing is inconsequential. Each grain of sand holds amazing secrets. Each event contains mysterious messages. Every encounter with another being is a point of contact upon which the universe pivots. When we enter into this frame of mind, reality as we see it becomes a vast opportunity to experience the interconnectedness of all creation. From this perspective, we come to the realization that every piece is integral in the unfolding of creation, including us." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

6		"Which of us can improve himself in total isolation? Even the holy anchorite who lives three days' journey off in the desert not only needs to eat and drink but finds himself utterly and terribly dependent on the ceaseless presence of God. Only absolute totality can renew itself out of itself and generate itself anew." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

7		"There is an inner environment that connects all consciousnesses that dwell upon the planet, in whatever form." The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (Jane Roberts)

8		"From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying force that flowed in and through all things – the flowers of the plains, blowing wind, rocks, trees, birds, animals – and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred, and were brought together by the same Great Mystery." Luther Standing Bear (Sioux Native American) One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality (Stephen Harrod Buhner)

9		"The universe (is) a great spread-out net with at every joint a gem, and each gem not only reflecting all the others but itself reflected in all." Myths To Live By (Joseph Campbell)

10		"The current ecology movement is attempting to restore balance by pointing out the interrelatedness of life upon the Earth, insisting upon a holistic vision for survival." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

11		"Just as there is an underlying unity behind all natural entities and processes, all having arisen from common subtle matter obeying the same laws, there is an underlying unity behind all the knowing selves or consciousness." Ravi Ravindra, 'Science and the Mystery of Silence' American Theosophist, The (Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)

12		"Life is a triumph of cooperation and creativity. Indeed, since the creation of the first nucleated cells, evolution has proceeded through ever more intricate arrangements of cooperation and coevolution." The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Fritjof Capra)

13		"They who are long gone are in us, as predisposition, as a charge upon our destiny, as blood that stirs, and as gesture that rises up out of the depths of time." Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), German poet, 'Letters to a Young Poet' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

14		"Everything in the universe is related to everything else." How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Rudolf Steiner)

15		"When you see things in your world – a part of nature, another aspect of life – that appear separate from you, just look at them deeply. Look INTO them. Do this for a long moment and you will capture their essence. And then you'll meet you, waiting there." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

16		“The bond of unity intimately relates all beings.” Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination (Geoffrey Hodson)

17		"The universe is a vast hologram, with the potential of the totality accessible in each of its myriad fragments." Translators The Upanishads, selections translated by Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell (Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell, translators)

18		"As a cosmogenic model, the Mandala is a synchronous, self-renewing whole." Mandala (Jose and Miriam Arguelles)

19		"All are parts of one stupendous whole." Man Visible and Invisible (C. W. Leadbeater)

20		"The Ancient Wisdom has always held that each of us, like everything else in nature, is fundamentally one with the All, immersed in that undivided, numinous unity from which all creation springs." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

21		"Everywhere in the cosmos archaic man recognizes a source of the sacred, that any fragment of the cosmos can give rise to a hierophany." Shamanism, Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Mircea Eliade)

22		"Once you accept the world-view where everything is connected, no aspect of reality is seen as being separate and unrelated. Neither the universals nor the particulars of matter and nonmatter, brain and mind – nor the languages we use to describe these things, science and art – are seen to be in conflict with one another. There is only confluence." Breaking the Mind Barrier (Todd Siler)

23		"We must reorder all our perceptive faculties so as to emphasize the wholeness rather than the otherness. Before we can love our neighbor as our self, we must SEE our neighbor as our self." Beatrice Bruteau, 'The Unknown Goddess' The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)

24		"Health is harmony with the world view. Health is an intuitive perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one fabric." Jeanne Achterberg, 'The Shaman: Master Healer in the Imaginary Realm' Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality (Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)

25		"Ancient psychologists taught that our own souls are inseparable from the world's soul, and that both are found in all the many things that make up nature and culture." Care of the Soul (Thomas Moore)