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1		"All the living sparks are rays of His splendour, just as the rays of the sun proceed from the sun itself." Hildegard of Bingen, Mystical Writings (Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies, editors)

2		"Classic Old Testament texts which point to the omnipresence of God are Psalm 139:7-10, 1 Kings 8:27, Isaiah 6:3 ('the whole earth is full of his glory'). The notion of the immanent Logos at the beginning of John's gospel points in the same direction, as do the words attributed approvingly by Luke to Paul in Acts 17:28: 'In God we live and move and have our being.' God is not elsewhere; we live in God." Jesus, A New Vision: Spirit, Culture, and The Life of Discipleship (Marcus J. Borg)

3		"The creature is in Brahma, and Brahma is in the creature; they are ever distinct, yet ever united. He Himself is the tree, the seed, and the germ. He Himself is the flower, the fruit and the shade. He Himself is the sun, the light, and the lighted. He Himself is Brahma, creature, and Maya. He Himself is the manifold form, the infinite space; He is the breath, the word, and the meaning." Kabir Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

4		"People with true insight know that all the walls and partitions, all the outward clothes and covers are in truth of His own essence, for there is no place void of Him." The Rabbi of Polnoye, grandson of the Baal Shem Tov The Messianic Idea in Judaism, And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality (Gershom Scholem)

5		"God is love, God is infinite and everywhere present in exactly the same degree." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

6		"God is All in all in a very literal sense. All being is in Him Who is all Being." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

7		"The mystics did not look to the divine as something external to be repeated within them, but as something real in them to be awakened." Christopher Bamford, foreword Mystics after Modernism (Rudolf Steiner)

8		"God is the simultaneous mutual implication of all things, even the contradictory ones." Nicholas Cusanus (1401-1464) 'Apologia doctae ignorantiae' The Masks of God (Joseph Campbell)

9		"Nature is an artist that works from within." Breaking the Mind Barrier (Todd Siler)

10		"God is a living being, eternal, and infinitely good." Aristotle, 'Metaphysics' The Essential Plotinus (Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)

11		"God is the sum total of all forms, the sum total of all states of consciousness, and the energising Life." The Labours of Hercules (Alice A. Bailey)

12		"The Holy Spirit is Life, the Mother of All." The Secret Book of John (1st century Gnostic text) The Other Bible (Willis Barnstone, editor)

13		"The Divine flows through all of us." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

14		"Every process, every movement from the circling of stars to the vibration of a gnat's wing, is not only under the complete control of God, but also occupies his entire consciousness as if it were the only thing that was happening." Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

15		"The attractive magnetic love of God pours through His created universe; it emerges in the consciousness and determines the objective of all evolving forms." Esoteric Psychology I (Alice A. Bailey)

16		"The Alcoran [Koran] describes Allah's character and attributes thus: 'He alone is self-existent; has no rival; is from everlasting to everlasting; fills the universe with his presence; is the center in which all things unite.'" A Dictionary of Freemasonry (Robert Macoy)

17		"As a sponge is in the ocean and the ocean is in a sponge, so we are in God and He is in us." Rufus Mosely Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

18		"The great central fact of the universe is that spirit of infinite life and power that is back of all, that manifests itself in and through all…God fills the universe alone, so that all is from Him and in Him, and there is nothing that is outside. He is the life of our life, our very life itself….God and the life of man are identically the same, and so are one." R. W. Trine, 'In Tune with the Infinite' Varieties of Religious Experience, The (William James)

19		"The Life and Light of the Deity flood the whole of His system." The Mental Body (Arthur E. Powell)

20		"In one word, LIFE is the stuff that God is." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

21		"Life is just another word for God." Communion with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

22		"He is the First and the Last, and the Outward and the Inward, and he is the Knower of all things." The Koran, 57:3 The Religion Book, The Encyclopedia of Places, Prophets, Saints, and Seers (Jim Willis)

23		"Each single act, each single moment, [is] joined directly to God." Friedrich vonHugel Letters from Saints to Sinners (John Cumming, editor)

24		"The En-Sof, the Infinite, is everything; consequently everything is the En-Sof." The Great Secret (Maurice Maeterlinck)

25		"'For in the All', as we read in the…pagan Corpus Hermeticum, 'there is naught that is not God: wherefore, neither size, nor space, nor quality, neither form, nor time, surrounds God, since He is All, and All surrounds all, and permeates all.'" [modernized] The Mythic Image (Joseph Campbell)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite