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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1		"In each moment the will of God is present, if we can only allow ourselves to discern it."

2		"The human body is His sitar. He draws the strings, and out of it comes the music of the inner universe." Kabir

3		"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth." Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author

4		"The greatest accomplishment in life is to be who or what you are, and that is what God wanted you to be when he created you." Abbot Thomas Keating

5		"Love and mercy apply to everybody, no matter how much we want to hate them." Bo Lozoff, author

6		"God is love itself. Therefore, it is only fitting that our lives here and afterward are also about love – that we are here to perfect this Divine Love in everything we do, say, think, and feel."

7		"Attaining harmony with the Source happens naturally when we are in relationship with it, a relationship characterized by the deepest sense of oneness."

8		"The Divine Reality – the Source of Being, Allah, the Brahman, the Tao, the One, the Ground of Being – has a limitless number of qualities; each one of these is itself infinite, but each also expresses the one nature."

9		"There is a bridge between time and Eternity; and this bridge is Atman, the Spirit in us….To one who goes over that bridge, the night becomes like day, because in the worlds of the Spirit there is a Light which is everlasting." Chandogya Upanishad

10		"When our boundaries expand beyond this limited identity, we realize our connection with everything."

11		"In eternity there is no succession, no moment by moment, but only one integral moment, the Everlasting Now in which all moments are part of the absolute moment of the Now. All the moments of all lives in all worlds, in all realms and universes, are simultaneous with one another. It is like a great cosmic, heavenly banquet at which we are all present: everything that is, was or could be. Let us all aspire to realize this Divine Consciousness, our birthright and our final home."

12		"That we may outgrow our need for dualism and conflict – that is my prayer."

13		"The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness." The Dalai Lama

14		"People see God every day; they just don't recognize him." Pearl Bailey, American singer

15		"There is no place we can look or be that we will not find God, if only we recognize what we are seeing."

16		"Think about yourself: your temple of God, the body; your spirit of God, the soul; the flow of God, the mind." Yogi Bhajan

17		"No matter what we believe, we are all bound to seek justice, to think and act with genuine kindness, and to have humility of heart."

18		"If you want to know with immediate and tangible recognition what God is like, examine kindness in yourself and others. It is your own deepest inner nature."

19		"Each one of us has an infinite meaning and is part of the greater whole, the Infinite Reality, the Divine itself."

20		"The inner nature or essence of each thing or sentient being is united to every other in God and through God. The Divine essence is immanently present in each being and in the laws of the universe. In every atom, electron, star, galaxy, and creature – in the cosmos as a whole – the Divine reality is the immanent ground and transcendent destiny of all beings."

21		"Small good works have results we do not foresee; their spiritual effects in the world are often unknown to us, but they are real."

22		"Do you discern the Divine Order in life's chaos? What does it mean to you?"

23		"Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death – it is form, union, plan – it is eternal life – it is Happiness." Walt Whitman

24		"True community includes those we disagree with. Community building, whether on our block or across national or cultural divides, is the great work of our new millennium."

25		"The apprehension of the intrinsic interconnectedness of all leads organically to a compassion for all, especially in the concrete existential situations of life as we meet others each day. Simply put, when we realize we are all in this together, our kindness and understanding grows. We are all related; we are all responsible for one another."