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1		"Pure, absolute and eternal Reality – such is Brahman, and 'thou art That.' Meditate upon this truth within your consciousness."

2		"Human individuals possess the momentous power of choosing either selflessness and union with God, or the intensification of separate selfhood."

3		"As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, protects her son, her only son, so let there be good will without measure between all beings. Let good will without measure prevail in the whole world." Metta Sutta

4		"Almighty Love….is stronger than death." John Smith, the Platonist

5		"How shall I grasp it? Do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no more grasping is the Self." Panchadasi

6		"To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy,….the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground."

7		"The discovery of Wisdom is the surpassing good. When this is found, all the people will sing." Philo

8		"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."

9		"That Self who is free from impurities, from old age and death, from grief and thirst and hunger, whose desire is true and whose desires come true – that Self is to be sought after and enquired about, that Self is to be realized." The Chandogya Upanishad

10		"In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all is ours." Meister Eckhart

11		"The Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being is to discover the fact for himself, to find out Who he really is."

12		"The ground of the individual soul is akin to, or identical with, the divine Ground of all existence."

13		"Every thing, event or thought is a point of intersection between creature and Creator, between a more or less distant manifestation of God and a ray, so to speak, of the unmanifest Godhead; every thing, event or thought can therefore be made the doorway through which a soul may pass out of time into eternity."

14		"The goal of creation is the return of all sentient beings out of separateness and that infatuating urge-to-separateness which results in suffering, through unitive knowledge, into the wholeness of eternal Reality."

15		"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."

16		"The Inner Light is beyond praise and blame; like space it knows no boundaries, yet it is even here, within us, ever retaining its serenity and fulness." Yung-chia Ta-shih

17		"For though she sink all sinking in the oneness of divinity, she never touches bottom. For it is of the very essence of the soul that she is powerless to plumb the depths of her creator. And here one cannot speak of the soul any more, for she has lost her nature yonder in the oneness of divine essence. There she is no more called soul, but is called immeasurable being." Meister Eckhart

18		"Pure love is God Himself." St. Catherine of Genoa

19		"God, in his simple substance, is all everywhere equally." St. Bernard of Clairvaux

20		“The great fact of God as the First Mover of a universe which partakes of His divinity has always been recognized.”

21		"Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all." Srimad Bhagavatam

22		"Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many." Shankara

23		"The divine Ground, according to the Perennial Philosophy, is the supreme good."

24		"The Dharma-body (the Absolute) of all the Buddhas enters into my own being. And my own being is found in union with theirs." Yung-chia Ta-shih

25		"The Godhead IS, and his 'isness' contains goodness, love, wisdom, in their essence and principle." Meister Eckhart