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1		"The unity and mutual relations of all parts of Kosmos were known to the ancients, before they became evident to modern astronomers and philosophers." The Secret Doctrine (Helena P. Blavatsky)

2		"Twenty-five hundred years ago it took an exceptional man like Diogenes to exclaim, 'I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world.' Today we must all be struggling to make those words our own. We have come to the point in history when anyone who is only Japanese or American, only Oriental or Occidental, is only half human. The other half that beats with the pulse of all humanity has yet to be born." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

3		"Existence operates in terms of wholes – in terms of organized systems of activity and consciousness – which are all lesser wholes within greater wholes and at the same time greater wholes encompassing a myriad of lesser units. At the physical level we see the holarchic series: atoms, molecules, cells, living organisms, planets, solar systems, galaxies, etc. Each new class includes a myriad of entities of the preceding class and is itself one of many components in a still more inclusive class." Dane Rudhyar, 'The Transmutation of Karma into Dharma' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

4		"We see that we depend on that which is most Perfect, so that we are a part of the Whole – that is to say, of Him – and contribute that which is ours to the accomplishment of so many admirably arranged and perfect works dependent on Him." Benedict Spinoza, 'Short Treatise' Ethics (Benedict Spinoza)

5		"Prayer is not an attempt to get God to come to our rescue; rather, it is a refocusing of our consciousness from the appearance of lack and limitation to the reality of wholeness." Eric Butterworth, Unity minister and radio broadcaster, 'The Age of Wisdom' New Thoughts for a New Millennium (Michael A. Maday, editor)

6		"A mystical experience is all-embracing…It is a realization – with one's whole being – that all things are one, a universe, an organic whole into which the self fits." Mysticism, Its History and Challenge (Bruno Borchert)

7		"There are NO radically separate entities anywhere – the boundary between subject and object is ultimately illusory." The Atman Project (Ken Wilber)

8		"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Russian author, Nobel Prize 1970, 'The Gulap Archipelago' The Great Thoughts (George Seldes, compiler)

9		"The macrocosm is not merely materially turned 'out there', distant matter, but rather the macrocosm is a sphere or plane of higher consciousness of which the earth and all forms within the universe are but expressions thereof." Richard Roberts Tarot Revelations (Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts)

10		"We are each connected and in sacred relationship to every other seed of life. We are swimming in the same pool of consciousness." Stone Age Wisdom, The Healing Principles of Shamanism (Tom Crockett)

11		"As I see it, what really matters are not fascinating details to be memorized by the curious mind, but the gaining of a whole view of cosmic, planetary, and human evolution. It is to be able to 'see' or even feel this evolution, with its interconnecting cycles and subcycles, microcosmic as well as macrocosmic." Occult Preparations for a New Age (Dane Rudhyar)

12		"Intuition is a comprehensive grip of the principle of universality, and when it is functioning there is…a complete loss of the sense of separateness. At its highest point, it is known as that Universal Love which has no relation to sentiment or to the affectional reaction but is, predominantly, in the nature of an identification with all beings." Glamour, A World Problem (Alice A. Bailey)

13		"The web of life connects us all." God and The Evolving Universe: The Next Step in Personal Evolution (James Redfield, Michael Murphy and Sylvia Timbers)

14		"Life to spiritual vision is a flowing entity." Intuitive Thinking As A Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom (Rudolf Steiner)

15		"In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected. And however autonomous our soul, it in indebted to an inheritance worked upon from all sides – before ever it came into being – by the totality of the energies of the earth." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

16		"In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken." Paracelsus (1493-1541), German-Swiss physician and alchemist, 'Essential Writings' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

17		"The elements contain in themselves the virtue of the whole: to hold the elements is to possess the whole. That is the principle implicitly accepted by a number of scientists and even philosophers." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

18		"I saw that each life form is connected to the others as in a web." Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self (Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)

19		“All of us are related to everything else, to the elements, to all the animal life. We’re all connected to the tree of life, too – you name it. We’re all the same….We’re part of everything here on Earth, and we’re part of the moon, sun, and stars.” Corbin Harney Hidden Wisdom (Richard Smoley and Jay Kinney)

20		"All living systems are networks of smaller components, and the web of life as a whole is a multilayered structure of living systems nesting within other living systems – networks within networks." The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Fritjof Capra)

21		"When we understand the underlying unity of all we cannot be otherwise than helpful, we cannot stand aside from our brother's sorrow." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

22		"You are not separate from other beings or the environment. This understanding cannot be merely intellectual. It must be experiential, the insight gained by deep touching and deep looking in a daily life of prayer, contemplation, and meditation." Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

23		"No element could move and grow except with and by all the others with itself." The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

24		"Until we are everything that we in our ignorance believe surrounds us, there is no complete consciousness. We may study the star intellectually, but we have never attained consciousness until we are the star, the stone, the heavens, and the earth. When our consciousness is perfect we extend from the heights of height to the depths of depth; we permeate the whole nature of existence; we are in everything, we are through everything, we are the whole nature of everything." Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

25		"The life-affirming soul craves wholeness." Frontiers of The Soul (Michael Grosso)