Many / One

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1		"The religious traditions of the world, full of beautifully stated wisdom, are your best source of guidance in the dark." Dark Nights of the Soul, A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals (Thomas Moore)

2		"They [the religions] all lead, like the rays of a circle to the point in the cente', to the One Religion; this dimension of religion has always existed and can be found at the mystical core of all authentic religions and sacred traditions." Divine Light and Love (Peter Roche deCoppens)

3		“People of different societies and cultures the world over think and feel and react in similar ways. They have the same types of dreams, hopes, fears, problems….and all this is reflected partly in language, myth, and literature, partly in folklore, ritual, and religion.” Arcana Mundi (Georg Luck)

4		"In the world of the mystics there are some profound and beautiful maps which appear not to suffer from the ravages of time. Here we find a host of ancient and modern disciplines as widely different as Taoists, Gnostics, the Sufis and the monks of Zen. This diverse spectrum of human experience has been handed down through living teachings and scriptures with an admirable thoroughness. They all, of course, differ in details, yet the major landmarks and the terrain are uncannily similar." Unknown Man (Yatri)

5		“Spiritual truths come from the same place in us where there is only one of us. The Sutras and Bibles of all the ages meet and are summarized in the archetypal oracular wisdom of our linked souls, and no accidents or ravages of history can dispossess us of our heritage. Each of us is a holograph of the entirety of revelation.” Mary Within (David Richo)

6		"It is undeniable that the theologies of all the great nations dovetail together and show that each is a part of one stupendous whole." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)

7		"There is remarkable agreement found among mystics of widely varying religious traditions." Mysticism and Ecumenism (Robley Edward Whitson)

8		"Down the ages, great and divine Representatives of God embody divine purpose, and affect the entire world in such a manner that Their names and Their influence are known and felt thousands of years after They no longer walk among men. Again and again, They have come and have left a changed world and some new world religion behind Them; we know also that prophecy and faith have ever held out to mankind the promise of Their coming again among us in an hour of need. These statements are statements of fact, historically proven." The Reappearance of the Christ (Alice A. Bailey)

9		"All [masters] live today even as they did then, in the days of what you call your past. And all the masters and all the messengers – Buddha, Abraham, Baha'u'liah, Jesus, Krishna, Moses, Muhammad, and all the others – love you today as they did then, and invite you today as they did then to accept and embrace the wonder and the glory of Who You Are." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

10		"The Maharshis and Siddhas, mighty Teachers of the past, exist inscrutably within the radiant Being. All are there, and he who worships one draws near to them all." Krishna Prem, 'The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita' The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite (Arthur W. Osborn)

11		"We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

12		"Experience shows that religion is a psychic fact that has existed from time immemorial and expresses itself in a thousand different forms." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

13		"All [mystics] have the same message about that very thing which no soul can utter; the immediate experience of God." The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

14		"With some variations in language and emphasis, the essential human process of evolutionary growth is described in similar terms in all major cultures and sacred traditions the world over." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

15		"Each religion discloses the meaning and the power of the transcendent within the world of time and space." The Book of Miracles (Kenneth L. Woodward)

16		"For over fifty years I've read a passage from one of the world's sacred texts before breakfast. I'm not the first person in history to undertake the spiritual quest, and it's only sensible to draw on the experiences of those who have preceded me. The Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Koran, the Bible, and the like are data banks of what they learned, so I apprentice myself to them. They are my guides on the path." The Way Things Are (Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)

17		"Think of the enlightened ones as having earned the equivalent of an advanced degree. Their descriptions of communion with the Infinite are so remarkably similar, despite their differences in language, culture and religious context, that they can be considered as reliable as repeated observations in science." Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

18		"Respecting the diversity of all religions need not obscure the underlying unity." The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment (Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)

19		"Religion, in the Vedas, the Eddas, the Scriptures, descended as a song, as a poetic vision of the Creative Man." Anthology of the World's Best Poems (Edwin Markham, editor)

20		"All religions bear witness to man's essential search for God." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

21		"Behind the symbols and languages of the world's manifold religions lies a common pattern of pointers to ultimate truth." Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)

22		"I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God-given." Mohandes Gandhi (1869-1948), Hindu national leader, 'Harijan (a weekly The Great Thoughts (George Seldes, compiler)

23		"Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity all alike share certain social and economic ideals, based on the right relation between man and nature and God….If they could find a common basis on which to work together, then they would exercise an incalculable influence on the world. It would then be possible to conceive a new world order, in which the ideals of modern science and technology, of humanism and democracy could be integrated in a spiritual order, which would give them that relation to ultimate truth and reality which they need." Christ in India: Essays Towards a Hindu-Christian Dialogue (Bede Griffiths)

24		"All the tools have been given you….in all the esoteric writings and sacred teachings of your global civilization." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

25		"What is essentially involved in both love and religion is the repairing of unities broken by experience and beyond that the retrieval of a Unity both all-encompassing and sempiternal." Origins of the Sacred (Dudley Young)