Many / One

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1		"As a magnet has its magnetic field, an area within which all its forces play, larger or smaller according to its strength, so has every man a field of influence within which play the forces he emits, and these forces work in curves that return to their forthsender, that re-enter the centre whence they emerged."

2		"The One Self is in all."

3		"Strength and calm and wisdom come to those who behold with opened eyes the glory of the Good Law."

4		"Until man has found the real Self, his own unreality makes him subject to illusions."

5		"Life is one, it streams out perpetually as the free outpouring of the love of the Logos."

6		"The great doctors of the Catholic Church always posit the unfathomable Deity, incomprehensible, infinite, and therefore necessarily but One and partless."

7		"It is infolded Deity that is the guarantee of humanity's final triumph; this is the hidden motive power that makes evolution at once possible and inevitable, the upward-lifting force that slowly overcomes every obstacle and every difficulty."

8		"Nothing can exist in which the Deity is not immanent…the Soul is present in the divine Idea."

9		"The One underlies all the diversities of external nature."

10		"All things live in rhythmical vibrations, all seek the harmonious and are repelled by dissonance."

11		"A survey of the great religions of the world shows that they hold in common many religious, ethical, and philosophical ideas." Annie Besant, 'The Ancient Wisdom', Theosophical Publishing House 1983, p. 2

12		"The one Breath of the whole universe, I know that mighty Spirit, the shining sun beyond the darkness….I know Him the unfading, the ancient, the Soul of all, omnipresent by His nature." Shvetash-vataropanishad, iii, 8, 21

13		"The consciousness of this inner unity, the recognition of the One Self dwelling equally in all, is the one sure foundation of Brotherhood."

14		"One nourishes many sides, thus All is One." The Zohar, Isaac Myer's translation

15		"The Founders of the great religions are members of the one Brotherhood."

16		"Life is one; happy they who see its presence, and make themselves the channels of its living force."

17		"Light everywhere meets with light; since everything contains all things in itself and again sees all things in another. So that all things are everywhere and all is all. Each thing likewise is everything." Plotinus, quoted in G. R. S. Mead's introduction to Taylor's 'Plotinus'

18		"Striking is the resemblance – or more correctly the identity – of the doctrine of the One in the Upanishads and the Eleatic school. Xenophanes' teaching of the unity of God and the Kosmos and of the changelessness of the One, and even more that of Parmenides, who held that reality is ascribable only to the One unborn, indestructible and omnipresent,….these doctrines are completely identical with the essential contents of the Upanishads and of the Vedantic philosophy which springs from them."

19		"Pure love brought the universe into being, pure love maintains it, pure love draws it upwards towards perfection, towards bliss."

20		"The one who is wise by love rises above all petty differences, and sees all drawing their life from the one source, all as part of his family."

21		"Man is a dignified, immortal being, evolving towards a divinely glorious end."

22		"The One is the perfect chord of Being, of infinite melodious concords, all turned to a single note, in which Life and Wisdom and Bliss are blended into one keynote of Existence."

23		"The human soul is the image of the Universal Mind."

24		"God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him."

25		"The one Life takes on countless limitations, each right in its own place and time."