Many / One

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1		"The whole Universe with all its parts…is interlocked, interwoven, to make a single whole, one body, one organism, one life, one consciousness, cyclicly evolving under one law."

2		"Cultivate a state of goodwill to all. Never by thought or word or deed hurt another."

3		"Self-existent, eternal, resplendent in Its own glory, is the Shining One, Whose Centre is invisible Fire, Whose rays are Light and Life, pervading the universe to its utmost limits, penetrating every form and causing it to live and to grow."

4		"Man is indeed a mystery, since he contains germinally within himself all his Creator's manifested attributes and powers and, in addition, those which will continue to become manifest throughout unending ages."

5		"Every experience has its value in terms of a drawing out, an increase, of innate power, wisdom and knowledge."

6		"Man, in his essential spiritual nature, is as a seed of the Deity."

7		"Ultimate and complete success is assured by virtue of the presence of an infinite, divine power, ceaselessly at work within the Soul of every man."

8		"The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendour has no limit." 'The Idyll of the White Lotus'

9		"Think your way towards the principle of Oneness as far as you possibly can."

10		"All things are located everywhere. Everything is all, and all is each thing; infinite splendour is radiated around. Everything is great, for even the small is great." Plotinus

11		"In happiness and suffering, in joy and in grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves." Yogashastra, 2:20 (Jain scripture)

12		"As a captain must know both his ship and his charted course, so man must know himself and his pathway in life."

13		"By kindness alone can man ratify the fact of the unity of Life."

14		"We live in God. That's what we breathe."

15		"Humaneness, which is obedience to the law of love in thought, feeling, word and deed, is the only way to lasting world peace."

16		"There is but one divine Will, one divine Life, and one divine Intelligence."

17		"Actions motived by love, service and unselfishness produce a growing freedom of self-expression."

18		"Indeed, no one ever sincerely cries for light in vain."

19		"Nation with nation, land with land, unarmed shall live as comrades free; in every heart and brain shall throb the pulse of one fraternity." John Addington Symonds (1840-1893),

20		"Man is a God-in-the-becoming. This, the ancient Sages taught, is the destiny of man: fully to make manifest his inherent powers."

21		"That One Alone becomes manifest…as all the exuberant variety and richness of individuality everywhere apparent throughout Nature."

22		"The principle of unfoldment under the irresistible pressure of a propellant energy operates from within the innermost essence of the Universe, and the spiritual seeds of all beings."

23		"The true citizen of the New Age will let compassion control even the details of daily life. He will shrink from harming anything that breathes because he will accept the Law of Kinship of all that lives."

24		"The person who successfully probes his own inner nature and existence back to its Centre and Core, finds one single source of all men, all beings, all existence. Unity then emerges as the supreme verity, the everlasting truth."

25		"How may the self be discovered? All teachers give the same answer: By meditation and contemplation; by self-purification; and by action in service of the Divine in all beings."