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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"By the mind this truth must be seen: there are not many, but only One." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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"We cannot win enlightenment for ourselves unless we are seeking it for all. Equally, however, we cannot be loving and kind to others, unless we are the same to ourselves."
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"The self and the not-self are centred in a Reality which makes them one. They are one in..the primordial Spirit of Which the whole universe is the Self-expression."
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"We cannot know what is to our real benefit until we have discovered what we truly are and have begun consciously to live in and by that knowledge."
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"'That' which makes of all the contraries a loving union of opposites, 'you are'."
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"By tranquillity is meant Oneness and Oneness gives birth to the highest Samadhi [Enlightenment] which is gained by entering into the realm of Noble Wisdom that is realizable only within one's inmost consciousness." Lankavatara Sutra
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"Brahman is the changeless Absolute of Being and of Knowing. But It is, also, without any conflict or contradiction, a Self of power and action present in all that lives and moves."
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"Universal compassion, which at the same time reaches down to all particulars, can only manifest in the truly wise who see in all sentient beings their own Self."
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"Through the steadfast practice of Mindfulness we may centre ourselves in this Oneness in which the light of insight scatters the shadows of external discrimination, and differences no longer divide, but enrich and unite."
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"The awakening of faith is neither an emotional conversion nor an intellectual assent to doctrine, but an awakening to Mind Itself."
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"The inherent nature of man, despite all the differences of race, tradition, or spiritual development, is the same in us all."
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"In the entire realm of becoming…there is a spiritual Consciousness, Which reveals Its being and Its power through a million points of light."
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"The Spirit of man finds peace in the supreme and deathless Self. He who knows that Eternal Self, bodiless and shadowless, luminous and everlasting, He knows, O beloved, the all and becomes the all." Prasna Upanishad
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"Rouse your self by Self, examine your self by Self. Thus Self-guided and mindful you will live happily." Dhammapada
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"Whether it is Blake losing himself in a knot in a piece of wood, Wordsworth in lines of curling mist or the figures of a shepherd and his dog, Shelley in the west wind, or Rilke in the bird flying through him and the tree growing within him – each and all of them were engaged in the task of reconciling the Knower and the Field, so that the perceiver and the perception might be one."
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"Within one's own mind is Mind Itself, the native resting-place of everything that is."
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"True consciousness…embraces all divisions in its own unity. For it is based in an unconditioned Knower who reconciles the Field of Knowing with Himself, since there is nothing which is not a form of His Consciousness."
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"In all of us…the choice upon which all depends is between committing ourselves to the Light Which shines in darkness or turning away from it."
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"In your innermost being the Divine IS and you ARE by virtue of Its presence."
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"God can see through us the forms of His creating and when we see them even partially with His eyes, we see the essence of Being in the ceaseless flow of becoming."
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"If a man sees the Atman, the Self that is divine, the Lord of all that is and will be, he fears no more."
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