Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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"To know your true self is life's quest. When it is known, you have indeed grown into life."
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"In the incarnation of Christ we see the coincidence of the human and the divine wills, separate yet united. And this is the promise for all mankind as it partakes fully of the divine nature deeply ingrained in it."
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"When the personality is infused by the authenticity of the soul, the will is free and acting under the direct instructions of the Holy Spirit. Then we are indeed participants in God's will."
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"Love is the keystone of the arch that joins the soul to God….in its working lies the meaning and destiny of all created things."
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"This is the deeper significance of the evolutionary process, that the human creature might re-establish communion with the Creator as a fully responsible agent infused with the power of God."
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"God is defined as that which is."
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"This is the splendid vision of the mystic, that God is in all His creation, and we, in union with Him, can participate in the transfiguration of matter."
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"There is one God, and all are embraced in Him and infused in Him."
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"That we are all members one of another is certain in the experience of the true self. For my identity, though unique, achieves reality only in relationship to the whole body of mankind. Thus the soul is, unlike the outer personality that encloses it in form, never circumscribed or alone. It is in psychic communion with all other souls and in spiritual communion with God."
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"Each kindly action changes the perspectives of those in contact with us, and so starts a chain reaction that culminates in a change of heart of many people."
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"God reveals Himself to us in all guises provided we have the courtesy to pay attention."
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"The free will does not go into a state of restful oblivion and wait for God to do everything….The free will brings the personality under the direction of the receptive soul, so that the inner voice can make its wordless message felt."
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"In or through His Spirit, God makes His immanence, or indwelling nature, known to us."
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"All creatures live in psychic communion."
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"When the awareness of the mind transcends the isolation of the personal self, it establishes an intimate relationship with the other, so that it is no longer merely a subject-object communication. This communication is one in which perceiver and perceived, thinker and thought, subject and object are united into a single all-pervading reality in which duality, or separation, is lost."
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"In the spiritual life you are confronted by a psychoanalyst who is your own soul guided by the Holy Spirit. When we are most abject we are also most receptive to divine grace."
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"All is one in that ultimate reality which is God."
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"The cosmic dimension of divine love is transpersonal, but never impersonal. Transpersonal love never denies the unique nature of any creature, but loves all creatures equally."
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"Love makes no demands, neither does it look for results. It is unaware of itself in its concern for the other, and its recompense is helping the beloved to be more fully himself."
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"The growth into the fullness of our own being is a growing into a progressively greater knowledge of the being of God."
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"The journey downwards into our own inner nature is the way to God….In this realised divinity there is eternal joy."
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