Many / One

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1		"In that fullness of unity the whole is fully present in the part."

2		"I see that when souls reach a certain clearness of perfection, they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness." Ralph Waldo Emerson

3		"If I were to try to name the new era, I would say it is characterized, whether consciously or not, by an inward-rising feeling of sympathy and companionship with other men and all things."

4		"Everything that occurs is worthy of our most appreciative attention, since it is in some way Brahman."

5		"Being is one, though named variously."

6		"A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit." Ralph Waldo Emerson

7		"Being IS unity."

8		"The aim is direct knowledge of the One Reality, and the process begins with the hearing of testimony, goes on to reasoning, and ends with direct vision of the truth of the statement or experience being pondered on."

9		"Things are not independent, clear-cut, definite-boundaried objects….Each one is what it is because there is a principle of oneness which is the essential cause and basis of all. Each is in some way all. That is the nature of being. Nothing IS that is not essentially all."

10		"One thing is sure – all is one; the world, mind and all."

11		"Somehow everything is Brahman. We have constantly to remind ourselves of this piece of knowledge and then we shall value our present experience."

12		"The world is of one piece, the same spirit which is in the saddle in the globe is also in the atom."

13		"Greece, Rome, Chaldea, Peru, Egypt and all live now in us. Their material triumphs have turned to dust, their old languages are dead, but the gain of character that was achieved by those ancient labors is ours now and forever."

14		"Man CAN KNOW that one reality – men have known it in the past and can do so now."

15		"Anyone who is intent upon knowing the One Reality finds the One Reality everywhere."

16		"Everything depends upon everything else, and, in fact, IS everything else as well as itself."

17		"The whole universe is in a flow of universal in-fluence in which everything is in some degree potent in everything else."

18		"We cannot get away from one ultimate enveloping cause, present in all causes and constituting their essential nature."

19		"My I and every I is that one I, the Glorious Presence….the mystery of mysteries, the joy of joys, the presence of all in each…variety mysteriously governed by unity. This is the principle of the whole – the ultimate self-existent power – which governs evolution from within."

20		"There is something marvellous in the power within a seed, and when that seed is the human soul, containing the powers of will, thought and love, no one should dare to measure its possibilities by an undeveloped imagination…it is for him to be his own gardener, to understand his own destiny, and to make his circumstances assist him in its swift achievement."

21		"Knowledge depends principally on a mental act of unity. The advance of knowledge is the discovery of unity."

22		"That the whole world is constituted of the One Reality is one of the essential principles of Vedantic thought."

23		"We are brothers; sons of one sweet mother."

24		"God or the One Reality is the material cause of all things…the substance of all things is that One."

25		"The One Reality can be known by exploring the I, the self – the true, not the false self."