Many / One

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1		"Say, 'We believe in that which is revealed to us, and that which is revealed to you. Our God and your God is one.'" Koran 29:46 Sacred Origins of Profound Things (Charles Panati)

2		"It is necessary that we learn to accept and love ourselves, as God constantly accepts and loves us, no matter what we are or do." Companions on the Inner Way (Morton T. Kelsey)

3		"All life, regardless of its form, classification or reputation, will respond to genuine interest, respect, appreciation, admiration, affection, gentleness, courtesy, good manners." Kinship With All Life (J. Allen Boone)

4		"The world itself is caught up in one great act of giving birth. (cf. Romans 8:22)" New World Dictionary-Concordance to the New American Bible (various)

5		"Whatever the Source is, however it is named or imagined, the truth is the same: Our gifts are donated from that originating point. Each interpretive system of spiritual and mystical culture understands this. The crucial point in life is to use these gifts wisely: not to squander them, but to commit them to the benefit of the whole community of life." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

6		"We are not alone. We are not floating in a vast sea of unknownness….We have not been stuck into a fearful world, landing in a world about which we are not to be given the rules for survival – although it may at times seem as though we have. We are much more knowledgeable about this world than we have ever imagined." Spirit Guides (Iris Belhayes)

7		"The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed." A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (Diane K. Osbon, editor)

8		"There is nowhere in which to be lost. God is omnipresent." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

9		"There is naturally ingrafted in men's minds an earnest desire of that which is truly good." Boethius, 'De Consolatione Philosophiae' (6th century), The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

10		"Remember, the light shines in the darkness; and whereas the darkness comprehends it not, those who do begin to open their understanding because this is their desire will find an absolute intensification of light taking place within themselves." The Human Aura (Kuthumi and Djwal Kul)

11		"Whence shall he have grief, how shall he be deluded who sees everywhere the Oneness?" Isha Upanishad A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

12		"If I am focusing on how you and I are so different from one another, community becomes strained if not impossible. But when we choose to place our attention instead on our hospitality and the spirituality of shared resources and open hearts, then our differences are reduced to the simple ways in which we embody diversity and distinctiveness – lovely qualities, after all, for they have their roots in nature." 366 Celt: A Year and A Day of Celtic Wisdom and Lore (Carl McColman)

13		"There is deep down within us, in the Ancestral Mind, a more grounded Self with a powerful instinct for well-being – an instinct that can help us overcome imbalances. That Self is the source of a will with which we can exert control over our own thoughts and redirect them toward a healthier worldview." The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power (Gregg D. Jacobs, Ph.D.)

14		"The Kingdom of God is not imminent but immanent; it is not 'among you', about suddenly to break like a thunderstorm, but 'within you', ready to be expressed the moment you understand your latent, common nature and how you must and can transcend your individuality, your egotism, which makes the world the obstacle it proves today to be to you." Gerald Heard (1889-1971), English author and philosopher, 'The Third Morality' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

15		"We are all capable of bringing about what we set our minds to if it is for the good of the whole." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

16		"The self turns out to be surprisingly resilient. It makes use of bits and pieces here and there and somehow keeps going. What may seem to be mere tactical flexibility, or just bungling along, turns out to be much more than that. We find ourselves evolving a self of many possibilities, one that has risks and pitfalls but at the same time holds out considerable promise for the human future." The Protean Self, Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation (Robert Jay Lifton)

17		"Mastering – or, if you prefer, integrating – the psyche is the work of a lifetime….This mastery is not holding the psyche in rigid subjugation (which is impossible in any case), nor is it a matter of having a maniacally religious ego lording it over the emotions and the body. Rather, it is being centered in the still, small voice that is the true 'I' of the spirit." Inner Christianity, A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition (Richard Smoley)

18		"God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

19		"Can you look beyond the façade of another and empower that person's beauty? Can you see beyond the affects and defects in others and accept them as part of the beauty of yourself, the wonders of nature, and the miracle of love?" Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

20		"Throughout the journey of the soul toward comprehension, dialogue is key." The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Karen L. King)

21		"No matter what you're going through, the Ancestral Mind, grounded in the experiences of millions of years of evolution, can provide the emotional wisdom you need to endure and prevail." The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power (Gregg D. Jacobs, Ph.D.)

22		"As Viktor Frankl found in a Nazi concentration camp, our deepest, rock-bottom need is…meaning and purpose." Heaven, The Heart's Deepest Longing (Peter Kreeft)

23		"The Soul makes each being one by looking upon The One." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One' The Essential Plotinus (Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)

24		"Light is here, unheralded and unnoticed, living us, supporting and warming us – the very spark of Being Itself. The Divine Child of us IS that Light, here and now." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)

25		"The miracle of rebirth seems to be a natural element in human life….we feel behind the sunrise of the new life a higher Living Power who brings it about." Fritz Kunkel, M.D. (1889-1956), American psychiatrist, 'How Character Develops' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)