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 | "Seek in utter darkness the dawn of God." | |
2 | "Through God, all bodies come together, exert influence upon one another and sustain one another in the unity of the all-embracing sphere." | |
3 | "We are the countless centres of one and the same sphere." | |
4 | "God has made good will the basis upon which our supernatural growth is founded. The pure heart, the right intention, are the organs of the higher life towards which all the soul's hopes are directed." | |
5 | "We can count upon creative energy awaiting us, ready to transform us in a way that goes beyond anything that the eye of man has seen or his ear has heard." | |
6 | "If man believes with sufficient vigour in the force that is creating him, he will soon find that, for all its terrifying uncertainty, the future provides him with a solid footing as he advances." | |
7 | "From the pantheist point of view, everything in the universe is seen to be radically One, Absolute, and Divine." | |
8 | "The deeper I descend into myself, the more I find God at the heart of my being." | |
9 | "The condition of human progress is that men must at last cease to live in isolation; they must learn to recognize a common goal for their lives…and the fiery energies still undoubtedly smouldering in men must be fanned into flame and directed in common towards that end – not in an individual, not in a national, nor in a social, but in a HUMAN effort." | |
10 | "Everything that is active, that moves or breathes, every physical, astral, or animate energy, every fragment of force, every spark of life, is equally sacred; for, in the humblest atom and the most brilliant star, in the lowest insect and the finest intelligence, there is the radiant smile and thrill of the same Absolute." | |
11 | "There is in the universe only one single individuality (one single monad), that of the whole." | |
12 | "Human monads are atoms immersed in, nourished by, and carried along by one and the same unfathomable primitive substance; they are elements that are combined and given a special character by a network of intimate interconnections, in order so to constitute a higher unity." | |
13 | "The Real incessantly reawakens us to an impassioned awareness of a wider expansion and an all-embracing unity." | |
14 | "In the material universe it is Spirit, and in Spirit it is the moral sphere, which are eminently the PRESENT centre in which life develops. It is into this flexible core of ourselves, accordingly, where divine grace mingles with the natural impulses of the Earth, that we have forcefully to direct the power of faith." | |
15 | "Every being…has its own particular essence crowned by a certain quality, a certain form (common to all) which makes it an integral, rightly adapted, part of the single Whole with which it shares a natural harmony." | |
16 | "God, who is as immense and all-embracing as matter, and at the same time as warm and intimate as a soul, is the Centre who spreads through all things." | |
17 | "The bosom of Mother Earth is in some way the bosom of God." | |
18 | "The sum of our souls is the potentiality of Some Thing, not yet made, which is to emerge from their mass. Collective aspirations accompany and assist this organic work, greater than ourselves, which is effected in each one of us. It is the function of Morality to guide our free decisions into fruitful and obedient co-operation in this task." | |
19 | "From time to time a great common aspiration comes to the surface from roots that lie deep down in mankind. At a given moment, the whole mass of souls thrills as it opens its eyes to a new light. Their multitude, for all its diversity, forms one whole in the unanimous and undisputed acceptance of a truth that is spontaneously taken as established; and, in one body, they set out together as though to find a new Holy Grail." | |
20 | "Basically, the whole of the world's psychism [psyche] gravitates towards a single centre." | |
21 | "Like particles immersed in one and the same spiritual fluid, souls cannot think or pray or act or move, without waves being produced, even by the most insignificant among them, which set the others in motion." | |
22 | "The more we lose all foothold in the darkness and instability of the future, the more deeply we penetrate into God." | |
23 | "Only a long and patient struggle can teach us the operative power of faith and show us what it can achieve." | |
24 | "Blessings on the philosophy that shows us that the cohesion of things is destined to be completed!" | |
25 | "Every being can subsist and hold together only through confluence with others." | |