Many / One

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1		"Being IS unity."

2		"Love is a kind of knowledge, an awareness of other lives. With it we begin to live in others, and cannot ignore the wounded bird or the lost child."

3		"The Vedanta Philosophy has as its basis the belief that the universe of our experience is only one reality and it can be known."

4		"The three mental steps towards knowledge of the One Reality are: 1. Listening, 2. Reflecting, 3. Contemplating. Listening means paying attention to the statements of the Scriptures with reference to the One Reality, and also to the words of seers and sages on the subject."

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

6		"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."

7		"The one cause – which is the Whole – is what existence is and what we are."

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

9		"There is an entelechy or active operation of form-building in Nature, and therefore a teleological purpose or design showing progress in Nature."

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

11		"The earth is honey for all beings; all beings are honey for the earth also -…It is the self, the immortal, Brahman, all. Just as all the spokes of a cartwheel are fixed in the nave and the circumference, so are all beings fitted in the self, which is without before or after, or inside or outside, the knower of all." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, II, 5

12		"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."

13		"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

14		"Everything is in intimate touch with other things….with no empty space between. This is a dance in which the partners are holding each other closely."

15		"From the unreal to the real is not from one thing to another, but from the complexity of duality and multiplicity to the simplicity of unity."

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

17		"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."

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

19		"Every little thing can be a gateway to infinity."

20		"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."

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

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

23		"Being is one, though named variously."

24		"There is no complete error, no complete ignorance – ever. In the world what resists us helps us, as the ground which obstructs our feet, but is necessary in walking. There is no escape from the self."

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