Many / One

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1		"All persons have a common origin, and each has a unique role to play in human history and human life; all equally have lessons to learn. On the other hand, each has lessons to teach."

2		"Behind all religion lies the selfsame reality, the primal awareness of the divine Ground of being."

3		"A human being can never truly exist singly. On overt or subtle levels, he is linked to the destiny of the human race as a whole."

4		“To know the Buddha is to know that all sentient beings are buddhas; to love Christ is to see Christ in all.”

5		“The One is the underlying reality beneath the infinite variations.”

6		“A core of truth lies in all religions.”

7		“The universe is a mirror in which the Absolute – God, if you wish – knows itself.”

8		"Love is no more and no less than the ethical expression of oneness."

9		"Compassion and service are the ethical expression of Unity, awarness of the illusive nature of all that seems to separate and differentiate."

10		"One infinite… Reality underlies and unites all that is or can ever be."

11		“We humans are miniatures or microcosms of God.”

12		"Oneness of the universe is more fundamental than its diversity, so what is most widespread and most expresses unity among the spiritual and philosophical traditions of the Earth is most true."

13		"All we do in the way of selfless compassion and service will bring as its logical consequence enhanced experience of the basic Oneness through enhanced awareness….Here is at work the paradoxical but crucial truth inculcated by all spiritual masters, that he who gives up his life for the sake of higher things will find it, and find it a hundredfold."

14		“All jobs provide opportunity to spread good will among fellow-workers and those one meets by a friendly smile and a helping hand.”

15		"The atom, the molecule, the cell, the body, the community, the planet, the solar system – all are in intimate and necessary relation to each other….The greater could not exist without the smaller, nor the smaller without the larger system that shapes it."

16		"Symbol is a very important word in the world's religious and spiritual traditions. The word literally means in Greek 'falls with', suggesting something which bears with it more than itself…..to interact with a symbol, in other words, is to interact with more than the thing itself; it also brings one in touch with another reality."

17		"The universe is like a magic hall of mirrors in which the reality of each entity, each Pilgrim, depends on the way he reflects all the other mirrors from a particular angle."

18		"Behind the symbols and languages of the world's manifold religions lies a common pattern of pointers to ultimate truth."

19		"The ultimate unity of all reality and the interaction of all entities with larger environments in spatial and temporal webs, and the inseparability of consciousness from the universe's manifestations, can be arrived at on quite rational grounds and require no 'mystical' modes of knowing."

20		“The fact that all persons are eternal Pilgrims and expressions of the divine within justifies the importance for the equal treatment of all regardless of race, sex, or creed.”

21		"An infinite divine reality – call it Brahman, God, or the One – underlies all that is and is the ultimate nature of all that is; we humans, as part of it, have an infinite origin and destiny; and these things can be known through wisdom, for they are our heritage and our very selves."

22		“Everything we can do for good, however tiny, will not be lost.”

23		“The unity of the universe is its most basic reality.”

24		"Changes are not random or purposeless, for they are all under the One Law which runs through all that is."

25		“The great initiated souls who founded the great religions embodied the same essential truth under many different guises.”