Many / One

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1		"If prophets down the millenniums spake with truth, man is essentially a soul, incorporeal and omnipresent."

2		"The broad sympathies and discerning insight needed for the healing of earthly woes cannot flow from a mere intellectual consideration of human diversities, but from knowledge of men's deepest unity – kinship with God."

3		"Vast worlds lie within the hollows of each atom, multifarious as the motes in a sunbeam." 'Yoga Vasishtha' (ancient Indian treatise)

4		"I own that I have an immovable faith in God and His goodness, and an unconsumable passion for truth and love. But is that not what every person has latent in him?" Mahatma Gandhi

5		"The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God." Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda's spiritual teacher

6		"All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth." J. C. Bose, Indian physicist and botanist

7		"Religion is universal and it is one. We cannot possibly universalize particular customs and conventions; but the common element in religion can be universalized."

8		"To find the Divine One, the only indispensable is Love." Mirabai, medieval Rajputani princess

9		"God…is eternal, ever-new Joy!"

10		"The divine eye is center everywhere, circumference nowhere."

11		"Thou art I, I am Thou….Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!" Paramahansa Yogananda, 'Samadhi'

12		"God created each man as a soul, dowered with individuality, hence essential to the universal structure….His freedom is final and immediate, if he so wills; it depends not on outer but inner victories."

13		"God, the Sole Life, is Absolute Unity."

14		"Every individual in the world has an inalienable right to his free will." Sri Yukteswar, Indian spiritual teacher

15		"He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has implanted in us the desire to question and understand." J. C. Bose, Indian physicist and botanist

16		"The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light."

17		"All parts of creation are linked together and interchange their influences. The balanced rhythm of the universe is rooted in reciprocity." Sri Yukteswar, Indian spiritual teacher

18		"Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change."

19		"The time-tested scriptures of the world are one in essence."

20		"The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations."

21		"No effort is complete without prayer, without a definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it. Prayer is a call to humility. It is a call to self-purification, to inward search." Mahatma Gandhi

22		"I believe like every Hindu in God and His oneness." Mahatma Gandhi,

23		"The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature." J. C. Bose, Indian physicist and botanist

24		"Only One exists."

25		"God is Love; His plan for creation can be rooted only in love....Every saint who has penetrated to the core of Reality has testified that a divine universal plan exists and that it is beautiful and full of joy."