Many / One

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1		"What is this perfect love which casts out all fear? Why, it is simply living in that part of our own self which is universal. It is becoming allied with the divine. Therein lies perfect peace, perfect harmony."

2		"The divinity lies in your breast, the source of all strength and grandeur; and the more you appeal to it the more you exercise it."

3		"There is an unborn Christ in the soul of every one of us, the Christos, the Prince of Peace, the Prince of Love."

4		"By true prayer we mean not only enlarging the personal consciousness towards becoming at one with the universal consciousness, but putting this experience into practice."

5		"The universe and we are one. There is but one life."

6		"Ethics are no mere human convention; morals are rooted in the very fabric and stuff of universal nature herself."

7		"At the core of every human being, indeed of every atom in the cosmos, is a living divinity." Grace F. Knoche, foreword

8		"The greatest who have ever lived have taught us that the way to peace and happiness and growth and prosperity and riches and all good things of life is love and justice."

9		"Fundamentally all is one, all beings are one."

10		"Put your whole trust in the divine power behind nature and live in accordance therewith, and nature will look upon you as working with her….Those of you who have ears to hear, hear!"

11		"Universal brotherhood is inherent in any properly organized and enduring social structure."

12		"The merest cognizance of spiritual and natural law should tell us that everything that happens in the great and in the small – because the small is included in the great – happens according to divine law."

13		"Universal brotherhood – not as merely vague sentimentalism, but as a recognition of human solidarity based on nature's own laws – is, after all, the keynote of any true civilization, and without it no civilization can endure."

14		"You cannot enchain the human soul. It will break free."

15		"The past, the present, and the future are but one eternal NOW in the ever present."

16		"The great sages and seers, the masters of wisdom and compassion, belong to no race, and especially to no creed. They are the children of the spirit, whose familiar thought is truth itself; and hence their sympathies are universal. They need no frontiers of race, of caste, of creed, of color. They are truth-seekers, truth-teachers….For truth has no age. It never was born, it never has not been. It is timeless because universal. Its appeal is to the hearts and minds of all."

17		"Universal brotherhood means not merely a sentimental or political brotherhood; it means that we are all of one common cosmic or spiritual origin, and that what affects one affects all."

18		"Our divine origin makes us kin with every thing and every being that is, for not only are all mankind kin, but all beings and things that are are our other selves. All spring from the same universal ocean which holds us forever – the Mother Eternal, the Father-Mother."

19		"We are all sparks of the divine heart."

20		"All are essentially unified in a divine oneness."

21		"Examine the teachings of all the great sages and seers who have appeared. You will find them essentially one, although expressed in different languages, expressed in different forms and formulations of thought appropriate to the respective ages in which each of the messengers appeared. Although clad in various garments, clothed in differing habiliments, the body of truth that they taught and teach is one."

22		"There within indeed lie all truth, all harmony, all wisdom, all love, all peace. The inner god within each one of you as an individual is of the very heart of the heart of the universe, and concerning that heart of the universe, each one of you is It."

23		"We human beings, as indeed all other things and entities everywhere, are parts of one vast cosmic whole, intimately united together, despite our failings and our stumblings, in the working out of our common destiny."

24		"Life should be governed by the grand ethical instincts of the human soul, which are based on the orderliness of nature's own structure and processes."

25		"There is in every human breast an undying font not only of inspiration, but likewise of growth, of hope, of wisdom, and of love. So that the world today, although apparently in a parlous condition, in a desperate state, still contains in it men and women enough to carry the evolutionary wave of progress over its present turmoil and strife; for the majority of mankind are essentially right in their instincts, especially the higher instincts."