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Cosmic Consciousness
Richard M Bucke
This is a classic study in the evolution of the human mind, and is a pioneering work as valuable today as when it was first published in 1901.

1 "That infinite ocean [is] the eternal love, the soul of nature and all one endless smile!" C. M. C., anonymous author

2 "There is a raying out of all orders of existence, an external emanation from the ineffable One." Plotinus

3 "God is all. He is not far away in the heaven; He is here. This grass under your feet is He; this bountiful harvest, that blue sky, those roses...you yourself are all one with Him." C. Y. E., anonymous author

4 "There is in man a divine consciousness." Edward Carpenter, 'Civilization, Its Cause and Cure'

5 "Love is blessing, is salvation, is our guardian genius." Plotinus

6 "Existence is one eternal immensity of infinite existence, acting with infinite force, in an inevitable, infinite, therefore absolutely perfect order, in whose perfection all things and their action must of necessity be included." C. P., anonymous author

7 "God and human life…are greater and better than any one has said or can say."

8 "I have never really doubted for a moment that an Infinite Wisdom and Love DOES encircle all our lives." J. W. W., anonymous author

9 "What joy when I saw there was no break in the chain – not a link left out – everything in its place and time. Worlds, systems, all blended in one harmonious whole, Universal life, synonymous with universal love!" C. M. C., anonymous author

10 "I dwell this moment in the eternal Now that has ever been and will be…I am in the midst of immortal things this moment." Richard Jefferies, 'The Story of My Heart'

11 "The universal scheme is woven in one piece."

12 "You are a little world formed out of the large one." Jacob Boehme

13 "In the prison One shall come; and the chains which are stronger than iron, the fetters harder than steel, shall dissolve – you shall go free forever." Edward Carpenter, 'Towards Democracy'

14 "The universe exists in each of its individual atoms." H. B., anonymous author

15 "The justice of God sees – in that is everything." Honore deBalzac, 'Louis Lambert'

16 "That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward, we find at last within ourselves. The kingdom within! The indwelling God!" C. M. C., anonymous author

17 "Only one in all the infinite universe! The All-loving, the Perfect One!" C. M. C., anonymous author

18 "The wise man recognizes the idea of the good within him." Plotinus

19 "All the great seers teach that God in himself is infinite love – that his manifestation, form or body is infinite wisdom – that divine love is the self-subsisting life of the universe."

20 "All is well, always has been and will always be." C. M. C., anonymous author

21 "Heaven and earth with all their inhabitants, and moreover God himself, is in man." Franz Hartman, 'The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme'

22 "That there rise in us waves of consciousness from those around us – from the people to which we belong – is certain." Edward Carpenter, 'Civilization, Its Cause and Cure'

23 "The true quality of the soul is that of space, by which it is at rest, everywhere." Edward Carpenter, 'Civilization, Its Cause and Cure'

24 "One IS those objects and things and persons that one perceives (and the whole universe)." Edward Carpenter

25 "In Cosmic Consciousness there is no condemnation, no sin, no evil, no death. This may be a hard saying, but it is true."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite