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1		"In fact, no human being (of any race) can be less closely related to any other human than approximately fiftieth cousin, and most of us are a lot closer." Seven Mysteries of Life, An Exploration in Science and Philosophy (Guy Murchie)

2		"There is almost an instinctive awareness now that we are indeed one humanity, one global village, one revolving and evolving organism." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

3		"Each and every individual human soul is infinitely valuable." Heaven, The Heart's Deepest Longing (Peter Kreeft)

4		"Each one of us comes from the loving hand of God and each of us has a purpose for being here on earth." Fr. Francis E. Butler, S.S.J. The Light of Love (Patricia Devlin)

5		"What is the work of works for man if not to establish, in and by each one of us, an absolutely original centre in which the universe reflects itself in a unique and inimitable way? And those centres are our very selves and personalities." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

6		"The linchpin of our relationship with God is founded on the belief that human beings have creative capability to intervene in the 'normal' course of events. One word, one gesture, or even one thought can change the direction of the creative process. This being so, we are led to conclude that human beings play a cocreative role." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

7		“Humanity possesses the power to interpret the whole and can actually come to realize its kinship with all.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

8		"You must recognize as brothers and sisters all who live; and free to will, free to act, free to enjoy, you shall know the worth of existence." Richard Wagner, 'The Creative Force' Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

9		"Humans are…beings who serve as a focus for the outworking of patterns of meaning as well as content. Sacred psychology calls for renewing our commitment to a science of the soul, in which imagining is primary." Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

10		"The human world, particularly as understood in the inspiring philosophy and ideals of a sacred tradition, is essentially about 'lifting up'. As all life draws up to the light, so is the human psyche attracted to the elevating principles which act as constant regenerators to the forms and beings of our world." Keith Critchlow, 'What Is Sacred in Architecture?" Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

11		"The individual center of consciousness is one with the universal, all-encompassing divine consciousness." The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

12		"In recognizing the Divine Spark in another human being, we also awaken it and activate it in ourselves; and the wheel turns as well the other way, knowing it in ourselves, we recognize it in others." Divine Light and Love (Peter Roche deCoppens)

13		"The life of nations is a great rushing river which is utterly beyond human control, in the hands of One who has always been stronger than men." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

14		"Pessimism is related to an unjust appraisement of the quality of humanity." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

15		"Mankind is unfinished, and both the individual and the human species as a whole are unfolding new powers, new ways of perceiving, new mental and spiritual potentialities." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

16		"We cannot think out the concept of man completely without coming upon the free spirit as the purest expression of human nature." The Essential Steiner (Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)

17		"Humanity possesses within itself a spark of the highest spiritual consciousness." Stephan A. Hoeller, 'Angels Holy and Unholy' Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

18		"The soul is an emanation of the Divinity, a part of the soul of the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and essayist, Journals for 1830 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

19		"From my own research in life after death…it becomes very clear that we are all born from the Source, from God, as human beings who are blessed with all the gifts necessary to fulfill our destiny." Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, foreword Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

20		"The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days." Stephen Jay Gould As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life (Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal)

21		"God gave the breath of life to their (humanity's) noses, for they are likenesses of Him which issued from His flesh." 'The Teaching for Merikare', par. 22 (ca. 2135-2040 bce), a treatise on kingship addressed by a king of Heracleopolis, whose name is lost, to his son and successor Merikare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

22		"To know man, true man, man as a whole, one must know God." Letters to Two Friends: 1926-1952 (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

23		"The teachings handed down from antiquity are that man has the imprint of God and thus has the memory to be in communication with that part of his being." Healing Through Colour (Theo Gimbel)

24		"There is something divine in man, which prompts him to look beyond the mere supply of his necessities, and to aim continually at higher objects." A Dictionary of Freemasonry (Robert Macoy)

25		"Man is dependent upon the rhythmic or cyclic outgoing or indrawing energy of the great Life in whom he lives and moves and has his being." The Light of the Soul (Alice A. Bailey)