1) "The term 'archetype' occurs as early as Philo Judaeus, with reference to the Imago Dei (God-Image) in man...In the Corpus Hermeticum, God is called 'archetype of light'. The term occurs several times in Dionysius the Aeropagite..'Archetype' is an explanatory paraphrase of the Platonic eidos (Idea)......we are dealing with primordial types, that is, with universal images that have existed since the remotest times." (For the "Corpus Hermeticum" see "Hermetica" in reference list)
     - V S DeLasslo, editor - Basic Writings of C G Jung

2) "The universal dispositions of the mind are to be understood as analogous to Plato's forms (eidola), in accordance with which the mind organizes its contents...We are not dealing with categories of reason but with categories of the imagination...The archetypes are, so to speak, organs of the pre-rational psyche."
     - W Y Evans-Wentz, translator - Tibetan Book of the Dead

3) "Substance, according to Tertullian, is the 'realized stage of the idea.'"
     - Michael vonBruck - The Unity of Reality

4) The Meaning of Namaste "I honor the place in you where Spirit lives I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Truth, of Light, of Peace, when you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, then we are One." It is pronounced as "Namastay" with the first two a's as the first a in "America" and the ay as in "stay", but with the t pronounced soft with the area just behind the tip of the tongue pressing against the upper-front teeth with no air passing (as the t in "tamasha"). For Hindu(s), the greeting of choice is "Namaste," the two hands pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed as one says, "Namaste". Thus it is both a spoken greeting and a gesture, a Mantr(a) and a Mudr(a). The prayerful hand position is a Mudr(a) called Anjali, from the root Anj, "to adorn, honor, celebrate or anoint." The hands held in union signify the oneness of an apparently dual cosmos, the bringing together of spirit and matter, or the self meeting the Self. It has been said that the right hand represents the higher nature or that which is divine in us, while the left hand represents the lower, worldly nature.
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5) "What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on Earth is thought?" John Milton - Paradise Lost
     - Margaret Pepper, editor - Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations

6) "The visible world is a manifestation of the inward spiritual world, (come) out of the eternal darkness, out of the spiritual weaving (twining or connection) and it is an object or resemblance of eternity, wherewith eternity hath made itself visible." Jacob Boehme - The Works of Jabob Boehme, Vol IV, The Way to Christ
     - Richard M Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness

7) "There exist in that eternal world the permanent realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature." William Blake - The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist
     - Richard M Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness

8) "As bodies are reflected in mirrors, so incorporeal things are reflected in bodies, and the intelligible Kosmos is reflected in the sensible Kosmos." Libellus XVII
     - Walter Scott, translator - Hermetica

9) "Religion proper speaks not of norms, but of guiding ideals, by which we should govern our conduct and which we can at best only approximate. These ideals..spring from the region of the structures which Plato spoke of as the world of Ideas, and concerning which we are told in the Bible, 'God is a spirit.'" Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) - Scientific and Religious Truths
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

10) "The apprehension of Ideas by the human mind is more an artistic intuiting, a half-conscious intimation, than a knowledge conveyed by the understanding. It is a reminiscence of forms that were already implanted in this soul before its existence on earth. The central Idea is that of the Beautiful and the Good, in which the divine becomes visible and at sight of which the wings of the soul begin to grow." Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) - Science and the Beautiful
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

11) "The archetypes have, when they appear, a distinctly numinous character which can only be described as 'spiritual,' if 'magical' is too strong a word." On the Nature of the Psyche
     - V S DeLasslo, editor - Basic Writings of C G Jung

12) "Religious ideas do not, in pschological reality, rest solely upon tradition and faith, but originate with the archetypes, the 'careful consideration' of which - religere! - constitutes the essence of religion. The archetypes are continuously present and active; as such they need no believing in but only an intuition of their meaning and a certain sapient awe, a deisidaimonia, which never loses sight of their import." On The Nature of the Psyche
     - V S DeLasslo, editor - Basic Writings of C G Jung

13) The Tahirih Path, point No. 1 (This path needs no formalization as it follows natural cosmic order.) 1 The coming of the Cycle of Balance and Harmony Individual application: I have been born into a time of transformation where separation is fast losing being the paradigm for humanity. As I understand that separation is not the ultimate truth and that connection with all that is, is the reality, it becomes ever more necessary to come into balance physically, mentally, and spiritually for my own advancement so that I may more readily plug into the divine energy. As an individual, when my male and female aspects are more balanced in my thoughts, the interplay between the two within myself allows me to reach a more peaceful frame of mind as I can understand the variety of characteristics in both, use the characteristics that best serve the situation, and no longer be in direct conflict with the duality and separation resulting from being out of balance. Thus my existence is more harmonious. Bringing my thinking and thoughts into balance in turn bring my physical body into balance by producing the hormones that are necessary for healthful happy responses to life. When my body and mind come into balance I can connect more easily with the Cosmic Spiritual Laws and then I personally become more attuned to those laws and realize my harmony and connection with the whole of creation. Collective Outcomes: Collectively the world is entirely out of balance in that it has been predominately the male patriarchal effects that are now dominant and the feminine attributes and spirit long forgotten. Almost everything that is being developed is being done through force which causes a natural imbalance: thus creating the weak and the strong; the poor and the rich; the slave and the ruler; the uneducated and the educated; and so forth. When society is more balanced the extremes resulting from force will be lessened whereby people will be able to work more harmoniously on the city, state, nation, and world arenas. Without the feminine spirit operating equally in the world a continuous state of war and strife will prevail. When society is in balance force will start to naturally change to operate through magnetic attraction which will create dramatic changes in the socio-political environment. Therefore, all creations will be the outcome of working on the 'love' vibration and in order to interact in the society the individual will have to be using this vibration to exist within it. This natural mandatory level of interaction almost entirely rules out crime and dysfunction.
     - Starr* Saffa - Tahirih TheAlogy: Female Cosmic Christ Spirit of the Age

14) "If one assumes that God affects the psychic background and activates it or actually is it, then the archetypes are the organs of God. The Self functions like the Christ image. This is the theological 'Christ in you'. It is not only I who think this way, but all the ancients right back to Paul."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

15) "Behind apparent randomness stands the archetypal order of an individual cosmic play, directed by a transcendental center."
     - Edward C. Whitmont, MD - The Alchemy of Healing

16) "Evolution is the fitting of a nature into its own archetype, and its end is attained when no longer any point of difference remains between the object as a transitory body and the object as a permanent idea. By growth we learn to become our essential selves, ordered after the precise image of our own divine prototype."
     - Manly P. Hall - Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

17) "Material things are the copies, the shadow images, of ideal shapes in reality; these ideal shapes are actual because and insofar as they become 'act'-ive in material events. The central Idea is that of the Beautiful and the Good, in which the divine becomes visible and at sight of which the wings of the soul begin to grow." Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), winner of 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics, 'Science and the Beautiful'
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

18) "The process of understanding in nature, together with the joy that man feels in understanding, that is, in becoming acquainted with new knowledge, seems to rest upon a correspondence, a coming into congruence of preexistent internal images of the human psyche with external objects and their behavior. This view of natural knowledge goes back, of course, to Plato and was also very plainly adopted by Kepler. The latter speaks, in fact, of Ideas, preexistent in the mind of God and imprinted accordingly upon the soul, as the image of God. These primal images, which the soul can perceive by means of an innate instinct, Kepler calls archetypes. There is very wide-ranging agreement here with the primordial images or archetypes introduced into modern psychology by C G Jung, which function as instinctive patterns of ideation. At this stage, the place of clear concepts is taken by images of strongly emotional content, which are not thought but are seen pictorially, as it were, before the mind's eye. Insofar as these images are the expression of a suspected but still unknown state of affairs, they can also be called symbolic, according to the definition of a symbol proposed by Jung. As ordering operators and formatives in this world of symbolic images, the archetypes function, indeed, as the desired bridge between sense perceptions and Ideas, and are therefore also a necessary precondition for the emergence of a scientific theory." Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), winner of 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics, 'Science and the Beautiful'
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

19) "The archetypes are seeds of the self, sources of energy available for an individual's growth into wholeness."
     - John Welch, O. Carm. - Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila

20) "The divine ideas are the initial forms in which things have their principle; the laws to which things are subject; the rules that preside at creation; the causes, finally, of things to be created. If this is so the world is very far from being the effect of a blind fate, it is the work of a supreme wisdom, which knows all that it makes, and can make it only because it eternally knows it."
     - Etienne Gilson - The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy

21) "The most powerful archetypal experience of man is that of the Deity. As a matter of fact, from the standpoint of psychology this statement has to be reversed, and we have to say that man has called his most powerful experience "God." it is the experience of a supra-individual centre of existence, of a power that gives and takes life, of a point from which life springs and towards which it aims, and in which the meaning and purpose of creation and man's place in it seem to become apparent. In this archetypal experience of the Deity the polarity between the unconscious and the conscious psyche finds its synthesis, and the tension is resolved in a complete union of the opposites. It is an immediate and direct experience of an absolutely convincing character, and one that carries with it a feeling of self-evidence. It is not made by man but happens to him out of the depth of his psychic existence. In other words, it is a spontaneous occurrence whose psychic reality cannot be denied."
     - Gerhard Adler - Studies in Analytical Psychology

22) "The archetype is the deepest source of the soul's hidden activity. The fate of every being is contained in its archetype, and there is even an archetypal representation of every change and passing mode of its existence. Not only the angels and the demons draw their foreknowledge of human fate from these archetypes; the prophet, too, is able to perceive them and thus to read the future."
     - Gershom Scholem - Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

23) "Ideas are certain principal forms, or permanent and immutable types of things, they themselves not being formed. Thus they are eternal, and existing always in the same manner, as being contained in the divine intelligence. Whilst, however, they themselves neither come into being nor decay, yet we say that in accordance with them, everything is formed that can arise or decay, and all that actually does so."
     - St. Augustine - De Diversis Quaestionibu's

24) "Archetypes are like all-embracing parables: their meaning is only partially accessible; their deepest significance remains a secret which existed long before Man himself and which reaches out far beyond Man."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

25) "There is an inner form which is not a shape but a shaper, with an efficient causality derivng from the secret and hidden determination of some living and intelligent nature which can shape not merely the outer forms of physical bodies but the inner souls of living things."
     - St. Augustine - The City of God

26) "All things You bring forth from Your high archetype: You, height of beauty, in Your mind the beauteous world is borne, and in that ideal likeness shaping it,orders perfect parts a perfect whole to frame."
     - Boethius - Consolation of Philosophy

27) "From beauty comes the existence of everything, each being exhibiting its own way of beauty. For beauty is the cause of harmony, of sympathy, of community. Beauty unites all things and is the source of all things. It is the great creating cause which bestirs the world and holds all things in existence by the longing inside them to have beauty. And there it is ahead of all, as Goal, as the Beloved, as the Cause toward which all things move, since it is the longing for beauty which actually brings them into being. It is a model to which they conform."
     - Dionysius the Aeropagite - The Divine Names

28) "When we speak of the archetypes of all the different forms in the dense world it must not be thought that these archetypes are merely models in the same sense in which we speak of an object constructed in miniature, or in some material other than that appropriate for its proper and final use. They are not merely likenesses nor models of the forms we see about us, but are creative archetypes; that is, they fashion the forms of the Physical World in their own likeness or likenesses, for often many work together to form one certain species, each archetype giving part of itself to build the required form."
     - Max Heindel - Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science

29) "Archetypes are not disseminated only by tradition, language, and migration, but they can rearise spontaneously, at any time, at any place, and without any outside influence. The far-reaching implications of this statement must not be overlooked. For it means that there are present in every psyche forms which are unconscious but none the less active - living dispositions, ideas in the Platonic sense, that preform and continually influence our thoughts and feelings and actions."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

30) "The Sapientia Dei (Wisdom of God) took on body and substance in the creature by creating it. The unconscious is the spirit of chthonic nature and contains the archetypal images of the Sapientia Dei."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

31) "The archetype is a living idea that constantly produces new interpretations through which that idea unfolds….Archetypes are not just a static image; they signify a dynamic process whereby the human carrier of the mystery is included in the mysterious drama of God's incarnation."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

32) "The exemplars of everything preexist as a transcendent unity within It (the Cause). It brings forth being as a tide of being. We give the name of 'exemplar' to those principles which preexist as a unity in God and which produce the essences of things. Theology calls them predefining, divine and good acts of will which determine and create thngs and in accordance with which the Transcendent One predefined and brought into being everything that is."
     - Dionysius the Aeropagite - The Divine Names

33) "Compared with the goodness of the age to be, all earthly goodness fulfils the role of a mirror: it contains the image of archetypal realities, not the realities themselves as they subsist in their true universal nature. Since what is divine consists in virtue and spiritual knowledge, the mirror displays the archetypes of virtue and the indistinct image reveals the archetypes of spiritual knowledge. He who has conformed his life to God's will through practice of the virtues transposes his intellect to the realm of intelligible realities by means of contemplation."
     - various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain - The Philokalia, volume 2

34) "Not all who perceive with eyes the sensible products of art are affected alike by the same object, but if they know it for the outward portrayal of an archetype subsisting in intuition, their hearts are shaken and they recapture memory of that Original." Plotinus
     - Joseph Campbell - Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

35) "The human soul knows all things in the eternal types, since by participation of these types we know all things. For the intellectual light which is in us is nothing else than a participated likeness of the uncreated light, in which are contained the eternal types."
     - Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica

36) "There exist in the eternal world the permanent realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature." William Blake
     - Richard M Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness

37) "There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, pre-exist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by virtue of preceding affections in the world of spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit."
     - Ralph W Emerson - Essays, Poems, Addresses

38) "It is the unanimous consent of all Platonists that as in the archetypal World, all things are in all; so also in this corporeal world, all things are in all, albeit in different ways, according to the receptive nature of each. Thus the Elements are not only in these inferior bodies, but also in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and lastly in God, the maker and archetype of all things." Agrippa von Nettesheim, 'Three Books of Occult Philosophy', 1651 edition
     - Carl Jung - Synchronicity, An Acausal Principle

39) "In Wisdom there is an infinite and inexhaustible treasury of intelligible realities containing all the invisible and unchangeable ideas of all the visible and changeable existences which were made by this Wisdom."
     - St. Augustine - The City of God

40) "In this Intelligible World everything is transparent. No shadow limits vision. All the essences see and interpenetrate each other in the most intimate depth of their nature. Light everywhere meets light. Every being contains within itself the entire Intelligible World, and also beholds it entire in any particular being."
     - Plotinus - Enneads

41) "Archetypal statements are based upon instinctive preconditions and have nothing to do with reason; they are neither rationally grounded nor can they be banished by rational arguments. They have always been part of the world scene. Certainly the ego and its will have a great part to play in life; but what the ego wills is subject in the highest degree to the interference, in ways of which the ego is usually unaware, of the autonomy and luminosity of archetypal processes. Practical considerations of these processes is the essence of religion, insofar as religion can be approached from a psychological point of view."
     - Carl Jung (edited by Aniela Jaffe) - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

42) "Religious ideas do not rest solely upon tradition and faith, but originate with the archetypes, the 'careful consideration' of which - religere! - constitutes the essence of religion. The archetypes are continuously present and active; as such they need no believing in, but only an intuition of their meaning and a certain sapient awe which never loses sight of their import."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

43) "The hero or god is that quasi-human being who symbolizes the ideas, forms, and forces which grip and mould the soul. These are the archetypal contents of the collective unconscious, the archaic heritage of humanity, the legacy left behind by all differentiation and development and bestowed upon all man like sunlight and air."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

44) "The primordial images are the most ancient and the most universal thought-forms of humanity. They are as much feelings as thoughts; indeed, they lead their own independent life rather in the manner of part-souls, as can easily be seen in those philosophical or Gnostic systems which rely on perception of the unconscious as the source of knowledge. The idea of angels, archangels, principalities and powers in St Paul, the archons of the Gnostics, the heavenly hierarchy of Dionysius the Aeropagite, all come from the perception of the relative autonomy of the archetypes."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

45) "The principle of emanationism as unfolded in the Orphic theogony became the vital doctrine of the Gnostics, who conceived a spiritual hierarchy as occupying each degree of the interval between the extremes of First Cause and Nature. The seven grand divisions into which existence is divided are termed in Neoplatonism: (1) The Principle of Principles, which is inscrutable and analogous to the threefold darkness of the Egyptians; (2) Being, the first point of the Triad of Cause; (3) Life; (4) Intellect, which completes the Triad of Causes; (5) Soul, which is the apex of the Triad of Generation; (6) Nature; and (7) Body, which completes the Triad of Generation. Thus is revealed the order by which Cause flows into Generation and eventually produces bodies, the latter being objectifications in matter of super physical paradigms or archetypes."
     - Manly P. Hall - Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

46) "In common with the Platonists, the American Indians understood the principles of an archetypal sphere wherein exist the patterns of all forms manifesting in the earth plane. The theory of Group, or Elder, Souls having supervision over the animal species is also shared by them."
     - - Zen Teachings of Huang Po

47) "Shamans exercise their psycho spiritual senses, and through this special form of imaginal knowing gain access to a visionary world that is not unlike the mundus archetypes of Carl Jung. There shamans, dreamers, and visionaries return again and again, extending consciousness and reality at the source level of gnosis and creative process, a place where the self moves freely amid archetypes and universals, listening to the pulse and dynamic transforming patterns of the Universal Dance."
     - Shirley Nicholson, Compiler - Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality

48) "The works of depth psychologists complement traditional angel studies. Here angels are seen as autonomous, archetypal power manifesting through all things. Humans are polytheistic 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."
     - Maria Parisen, compiler - Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power

49) "The archetypes to be discovered and assimilated are precisely those that have inspired, throughout the annals of human culture, the basic images of ritual, mythology, and vision. In myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind."
     - Joseph Campbell - Hero With A Thousand Faces

50) "Asclepius: Tell me, then, what is the Good? Hermes: The Good is the archetypal Light; and Mind and Truth are, so to speak, rays emitted by that Light."
     - Walter Scott, translator - Hermetica

51) "The Sapientia Dei (Wisdom of God [jk]) took on body and substance in the creature by creating it. The unconscious is the spirit of chthonic nature and contains the archetypal images of the Sapientia Dei."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

52) "It staggers the mind even to begin to imagine the accidents and hazards that, over millions of years, transformed a lemur like tree-dweller into a man. In this chaos of chance, synchronistic phenomena were probably at work, operating both with and against the known laws of nature to produce, in archetypal moments, syntheses which appear to us miraculous. Causality and teleology fail us here, because synchronistic phenomena manifest themselves as pure chance. The essential thing about these phenomena is that an objective event coincides meaningfully with a psychic process; that is to say, a physical event and an end psychic one have a common meaning. This presupposes not only an all-pervading, latent meaning which can be recognized by consciousness, but, during that preconscious time, a psychoid meaning cannot be recognized because there is as yet no consciousness. It is through the archetype that we come closest to this early, 'irreprehensible,' psychoid stage of conscious development; indeed, the archetype itself gives us direct intimations of it. Unconscious synchronicities are, as we know from experience, altogether possible, since in many cases we are unconscious of their happening, or have to have our attention drawn to the coincidence by an outsider. Synchronistic experiences point to a latent meaning which is independent of consciousness."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

53) "As far as I know, archetypes are perhaps the most important basis for synchronistic events."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

54) "Archetypes are forms of strongly emotional character that, in some way, reflect the internal structures of the world." Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), 'The Debate Between Plato and Democritus'
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

55) "There is a mystical aura about its (the archetype's) numinosity, and it has a corresponding effect upon the emotions. It mobilizes philosophical and religious convictions in the very people who deemed themselves miles above any such fits of weakness….the experience brings with it a depth and fullness of meaning that was unthinkable before." (On the Nature of the Psyche)
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

56) "The changes that may befall a man are not infinitely variable; they are variations of certain typical occurrences which are limited in number. When therefore a distressing situation arises, the corresponding archetype will be constellated in the unconscious. Since this archetype is numinous, that is, possesses a specific energy, it will attract to itself the contents of consciousness - conscious ideas that render it perceptible and hence capable of conscious realization. Its passing over into consciousness is felt as an illumination, a revelation, or 'saving idea'." (Symbols of Transformation)
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

57) "Archetypes are like riverbeds which dry up when the water deserts them, but which it can find again at any time. An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life has flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself…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."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

58) "To recognize is to compare the sense perception outside with the original pictures inside, and to judge that it conforms to them. Proclus has expressed the matter very finely in his simile of awakening, as from a dream. For just as the sensorily presented things in the oute world recall to us those which we formerly perceived in the dream, so also the mathematical relations given in sensibility call forth those intelligible archetypes which were already given inwardly beforehand, so that they now shine forth truly and vividly in the soul." Kepler, 'Harmony of the World', quoted by Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), 'Science and the Beautiful'
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

59) "At that moment, when true Ideas rise up, there occurs in the soul of him who sees them an altogether indescribable process of the highest intensity. It is the amazed awe that Plato speaks of in the Phaedrus, with which the soul remembers, as it were, something it had unconsciously possessed all along." Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), 'Science and the Beautiful'
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

60) "Without these Ideas – these generalizations, regularities and ideals – the world would be to us as it must seem to the first-opened eyes of the child, a mass of unclassified and unmeaning particulars of sensation; for meaning can be given to things only by classifying and generalizing them, by finding the laws of their beings, and the purposes and goals of their activity."
     - Will Durant - The Story of Philosophy

61) "The significant point: every physicist in this volume was profoundly struck by the fact that the natural realm obeys in some sense the laws or forms of mathematics, or, in general, obeys some sort of archetypal mental-forms."
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

62) "They (the Archetypes) are, indeed, an instinctive trend, as marked as the impulse of birds to build nests, or ants to form organized colonies." Carl Jung
     - Carl Jung - Man and His Symbols

63) "Archetypes create myths, religions, and philosophies that influence and characterize whole nations and epochs of history." Carl Jung
     - Carl Jung - Man and His Symbols

64) "All the tableau of the Major Arcana (of the Tarot), the pictorial forms, patterns, and colors, like the world itself, are expressions of archetypal Ideas, themselves the formative powers of the Macrocosmic plane."
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

65) "The sun makes of our planet an alchemical retort in which the ocean waters are lifted to heaven and then, their impurities distilled away, are returned to the earth in drops of rain. This continuous circular process epitomizes the natural interrelationship between heaven and earth – between the archetypal figures of the collective unconscious and man's ego reality." Sallie Nichols, Jungian author
     - Maria Parisen, compiler - Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power

66) "The prototypes of the images and forms utilized by the oneirocritic, poetic and prophetic idioms, can be found around us in Nature, revealing herself as a world of materialized dream, as a prophetic language whose hieroglyphics are beings and forms." Franz P. Schubert (1797-1828), Austrian composer, 'Symbolik des Traumes'
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

67) "By far the greatest number of spontaneous synchronistic phenomena that I have had occasion to observe and analyse can easily be shown to have a direct connection with an archetype."
     - Carl Jung - Synchronicity, An Acausal Principle

68) "Each god has his sympathetic representative in the animal, the vegetable, and the mineral world." Proclus (410-485ad), Greek philosopher
     - John Farina, Editor-in-Chief - Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works

69) "Plato tells of universal ideas, the memory of which is lost at birth but through philosophy may be recalled. These correspond to Bastian's 'Elementary Ideas' and Jung's 'Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious'."
     - Joseph Campbell - Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

70) "We are all made in the image of God. That is the ultimate archetype of man."
     - Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth

71) "Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in types and images." The Gospel of Philip (3rd century ad Christian Gnostic catechesis)
     - Willis Barnstone, editor - The Other Bible

72) "This beautiful world is a reflection and an image of the Original, the Divine Spirit." Plotinus
     - Sheldon Cheney - Men Who Have Walked With God

73) "We are the accumulation of a set of archetypes that interact with the world drama that enfolds us."
     - Rabbi David A. Cooper - God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism

74) "Archetypes are a specific pattern of relationships and a particular set of biopsychic possibilities of development of consciousness."
     - Dane Rudhyar - Occult Preparations for a New Age

75) "The archetype of the human being is God…'God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him' (Genesis 1:27)."
     - Valentin Tomberg - Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition

76) "All that can be known is but forms ensouled by ideas."
     - Alice A. Bailey - A Treatise on Cosmic Fire

77) "The materialization of a form originates upon the archetypal planes, through the agency of divine thought, and from thence (through directed streams of intelligent energy) acquires substance as it is reproduced upon each plane, until eventually, upon the physical plane, the form stands revealed at its densest point of manifestation."
     - Alice A. Bailey - A Treatise on Cosmic Fire

78) "The archetypes…are the first point where our formless or seamless organismic consciousness starts to take on an animate form."
     - Ken Wilber - Spectrum of Consciousness

79) "Because these (archetypal) symbols are collective or transpersonal, to touch the archetype is actually to begin to transcend oneself, to find deeply within an intimation and pointer to the deeply beyond."
     - Ken Wilber - Spectrum of Consciousness

80) "Joy is the quality which grows out of self-realisation….We are told that there is an archetype, a pattern, a way, a goal, and a light which shines upon the Path. But, realising this, do I know anything of the joy which should irradiate my way?"
     - Alice A. Bailey - Discipleship in the New Age

81) "Ideas are the original forms (formae principales), the stable and immutable ground of things….They are a part of divine intelligence."
     - Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors - Modern Esoteric Spirituality

82) "The Jungian archetypes have something in common with Bohm's implicate order. The archetypes are the structuring principles that underlie individual and collective behavior. As structuring principles they are never pereived or experienced directly but appear as images and myths and are manifest within dreams and patterns of behavior."
     - F. David Peat - From Certainty to Uncertainty, the Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

83) "For all the beautiful things in the world would never have been what they are if they hadn't been molded after the archetype of true beauty, the Uncreated, the Blessed, the Imperishable." Philo (c. 15bc-45ad), Alexandrian Jewish philosopher
     - David Schiller - God, A Companion for Seekers

84) "All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. This is particularly true of religious ideas, but the central concepts of science, philosophy, and ethics are no exception to this rule. In their present form they are variants of archetypal ideas, created by consciously applying and adapting these ideas to reality. For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us." 'The Structure of the Psyche'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

85) "The archetypes have, when they appear, a distinctly numinous character which can only be described as 'spiritual'." 'On the Nature of the Psyche'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

86) "The soul must contain in itself the faculty of relationship to God, that is, a correspondence, otherwise a connection could never come about. This correspondence is, in psychological terms, the archetype of the God-image." 'Psychology and Alchemy'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

87) "When I say as a psychologist that God is an archetype, I mean by that the 'type' in the psyche. The word 'type' is, as we know, derived from (the Greek word for) 'blow' or 'imprint'; thus an archetype presupposes an imprinter." 'Psychology and Alchemy'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

88) "The greatest and best thoughts of man shape themselves upon these primoridial images (the archetypes) as upon a blueprint."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

89) "The archetypes, as organs of the psyche, are dynamic, instinctual complexes which determine psychic life to an extraordinary degree." Carl Jung, 'Psychological Commentary'
     - W Y Evans-Wentz, translator - Tibetan Book of the Dead

90) "Growth at all levels must include spiritual development as its most subtle and valuable aspect. The life of the spirit, manifest in the psyche, must evolve in accordance with certain principles and forms, which, in turn, must be related to all the other levels of human existence...to designate these principles and forms Jung has adopted the term 'archetypes.' Violet Staub deLaszlo, introduction
     - V S DeLasslo, editor - Basic Writings of C G Jung

91) "Ideas are certain original forms or permanent and immutable models of things which are contained by the divine intelligence. They are immutable because they themselves have not been formed; and that is why they are eternal and always the same. But though they themselves neither come to be nor perish, yet it is accordfing to them that everything, which can come to be or pass away or which actually comes to be and passes away, is said to be formed." St. Augustine, Lib. 83 Quaest., q. 46
     - Anton C. Pegis, editor - Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas

92) "Ideas are exemplars existing in the divine mind."
     - Anton C. Pegis, editor - Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas

93) "The divine events that are told in myth are not told for their own sake, nor are they thought out according to some inner logic of their own. They exist as normative events or archetypes of the world of nature and of man."
     - various - New World Dictionary-Concordance to the New American Bible

94) "Everything which will later become this or that particular thing is contained invisibly in the seminal reasons implanted at creation; the world blooms out of its primitive elements as a tree develops from its seed." Richard McKeon, introduction to St. Augustine
     - Richard McKeon, editor and translator - Selections From Medieval Philosophers

95) "I understand that there arise and are made in me, when I seek them out earnestly, certain ideas like intelligible species, of the intelligibles within, which I contemplate with the mind alone." John Scotus Eriugena (800?-877?), 'On The Division of Nature',
     - Richard McKeon, editor and translator - Selections From Medieval Philosophers

96) "Ideas, by the analysis St. Anselm makes of them, are thenselves things; and for them to be is indication of something concerning the nature of things." Richard McKeon, introduction to St. Anselm
     - Richard McKeon, editor and translator - Selections From Medieval Philosophers

97) "Plato arrived at the conclusion that there exists in a supra-sensible world a host of models or archetypes, immaterial, immutable, eternal, man in general or man in himself, triangle in itself, virtue in itself, etc. These he termed ideas, which are the object apprehended by the intellect, the faculty which attains truth – that is to say, they are Reality."
     - Jacques Maritain - An Introduction to Philosophy

98) "The human body (is) a miniature replica of the earth's surface. For it resembles our outer planet remarkably, being composed of the same elements in the same proportion: three quarters water and one quarter solids, both organic and inorganic, with swift internal flows, occasional eruptions and gentle daily tides. And there is a corresponding similarity between the atom and the solar system, where the sun represents the proton and the planets the electrons that orbit around it. Such preponderant structures notably demonstrate how material forms are ordered in regular and meaningful ways by nonmaterial abstractions, such as symmetry and conceptual archetypes. This applies to everything from crystals to supergalaxies, all of which in essence may be considered alive."
     - Guy Murchie - Seven Mysteries of Life, An Exploration in Science and Philosophy

99) "We express the likeness of the divine nature in which the very Best Creator, from the archetype of his own mind, engraved with his finger (that is, his spirit), the eternal law of honesty; by this we are joined to God and made one with God." Origen, 'Sixth Epistle to the Romans'
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled

100) "God formed things as they first arose according to forms and numbers." Plato, 'Timaeus'
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled

101) "The soul, which is immortal, has an arithmetical, as the body has a geometrical, beginning. This beginning, as the reflection of the great universal Archaeus, is self-moving, and from the centre diffuses itself over the whole body of the microcosm."
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled

102) "Space is not an empty void, but a reservoir filled with the models of all things that ever were, that are, and that will be."
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled

103) "Archetypes use the analogical-allegorical method rather than the descriptive-analytical one. This means that they are multidimensional, having not one set of meanings, preestablished and socially standardized, but many sets of meanings and correspondences….they are not static and closed but rather dynamic and open, with ever-new emergent levels that come to the foreground as new layers and states of consciousness are activated; they are based on the principle of correspondence and homology, derived from the classical assumption that all things in the universe are interrelated and that the microcosm (human nature) is a reflection of the macrocosm (the world."
     - Peter Roche deCoppens - Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity

104) "Symbols, images, and archetypes…are the key regulators and main 'switches' of human consciousness and of one's inner life. It is through them that all alterations, focusing, and expansion of human consciousness take place, for they are the regulators, accumulators, and transformers of human consciousness. They enable a person to connect himself (and his field of consciousness) temporarily and to identify with something greater and larger than he is and, thus, slowly to transcend himself and actualize his latent energies, faculties, and potentialitites."
     - Peter Roche deCoppens - Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity

105) "Symbols, images, and archetypes are indeed, and function as, a bridge or connection between the known and the unknown, the conscious and the Deep Mind, actuality and potentiality. They are elements in a progressive developmental path or curriculum by which the many can become one, by which the profane can be linked with the sacred, and by which the supreme synthesis of finding Union with God can be realized – the true purpose and destiny of all human beings on earth."
     - Peter Roche deCoppens - Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity

106) "The images of created things are in the divine mind 'before' the created things themselves, acting indeed as their archetypes….God does not stand outside of the world, deriving knowledge from it; on the contrary, the world derives its being from the knowledge of it that God continually pours into it."
     - Robert Barron - Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master

107) "In the psyche, at a depth which cannot be called 'personal', there exist the great archetypal images. These images are demonstrably related to the true Archetypes; and although, in dreams for instance, they may sometimes move in the personal levels of the psyche and participate in actions which reflect personal conditions, still their more profound character is manifest."
     - Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips - The Sword and The Serpent

108) "The essential reality of Beauty exists as an Archetypal Power in the Divine Mind, and the existence of this Power is the true reason why our minds are able to perceive beauty where they might otherwise have discerned only mathematical balance, for example, or biological aptness, or a certain refraction of light."
     - Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips - The Sword and The Serpent

109) "The archetype is an archetype because it represents a past reality; its power over us as internal image is so profound because it was once an experienced fact of the external world."
     - Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor - Great Cosmic Mother, Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

110) "The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas…the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to becoming."
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - The Secret Doctrine

111) "Archetypes are perennial themes that reside at the level of the collective, universal soul. These themes are representations of our collective soul's yearnings, imagination, and deepest desires. These themes have existed forever. We see them in the writings of ancient cultures, in literature throughout the ages. Their shapes shift depending on where we are in history, but their core remains the same."
     - Deepak Chopra - Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire

112) "Archetypes are life models, images and ideas that guide the direction of your life toward your soul's ultimate destiny."
     - Deepak Chopra - Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire

113) "Archetypes are vital to understanding and defining who we are, individual expressions of a collective consciousness."
     - Deepak Chopra - Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire

114) "Archetypes are organs of Essence, the cosmic blueprints of how it all works."
     - Jean Houston - A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story

115) "Quintessentially, archetypes are about relationship….As inhabitants of the We Are realm, archetypes bridge spirit with nature, mind with body, and self with universe. They are always within us, essential elements within the structure of our psyches."
     - Jean Houston - A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story

116) "Philosophically, in the reality structure of the feminine archetype, Great Nature is just as important within as it is without. The principle of the 'unus mundus', the unified reality stream, is operative here; the realm of inwardness has as much ontological status as the external world has. The feminine principle expresses itself as an unfolding of levels of existence, not as the conquest of facts."
     - Jean Houston - The Search for the Beloved

117) "The archetypal level contains the great symbolic and mythic patterns that charge the human spirit with meaning and direction."
     - Jean Houston - The Search for the Beloved

118) "Physically the structure of a cell retains its identity, even while the matter that composes it is continually altered. The cell rebuilds itself in line with its own pattern of identity, yet is always a part of emerging action, alive and responding even in the midst of its own multitudinous deaths. So psychological structures form to which various names are given. The names are meaningless, but the structures behind them are not. Such psychological structures also retain their identity, their pattern of uniqueness, even while they change constantly, die and are reborn."
     - Jane Roberts - The Nature of Personal Reality

119) "Through the genome of our species we inherit the archetypal predispositions of our ancestors, and it is on these basic, universal, and persistently active themes that individual cultures work out their sets of variations and transmit them from generation to generation."
     - Anthony Stevens - Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind

120) "The extraordinary degree of similarity between symbolic manifestations and the agreement about what they signify across history and across the planet points to their archetypal roots in the phylogenetic psyche (the collective unconscious) of humanity."
     - Anthony Stevens - Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind

121) "Culture and psyche are not opposed entities but two aspects of the same psychobiological process – the actualization of innate archetypal propensities."
     - Anthony Stevens - Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind

122) "The primal Self contains all the archetypal potential and all the dynamic oppositions necessary to achieve the goal of individuation."
     - Anthony Stevens - Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind

123) "The archetypes of the psychic processes – in which the great universal truths about the nature of man are contained – rest in the deepest recesses of the objective unconscious."
     - Ira Progoff, Ph.D. - Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning

124) "Archetypes are deep and abiding patterns in the human psyche that remain powerful and present over time."
     - Carol Pearson, Ph.D. - The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By

125) "The archetypes are here to help us evolve, collectively and individually. In honoring them we grow."
     - Carol Pearson, Ph.D. - The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By

126) "Nature can put us in touch with the archetype of regeneration."
     - Valerie Andrews - A Passion for This Earth, Exploring a New Partnership of Man, Woman & Nature

127) "The Greek root, 'arche', refers to beginnings, to origins; 'type' derives from a Greek verb meaning 'to strike' and from the related noun that refers to an impression or model. 'Archetype' thus signifies the model from which copies are cast, the underlying pattern, the beginning point from which something develops."
     - Christine Downing, editor - Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life

128) "Archetypal images are not remnants of archaic thought, not a dead deposit, but part of a living system of interactions between the human psyche and the outer world."
     - Christine Downing, editor - Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life

129) "Archetypal images provide us with a 'self-portrait' of the psyche."
     - Christine Downing, editor - Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life

130) "The point of archetypal images, like the point of myths, is not problem solving but imagining, questioning, going deeper. Archetypal images free us from identifying ourselves with our literal failures and successes or from seeing our lives as banal, or trivial. The aim in attending to these images is to awaken us to a sense of our yet unrealized latent possibilities, to save us from our sense of isolation and meaninglessness. It is to open up our lives to renewal and reshaping. Attending to the images creates a new bond between our personal lives and the collective experience of humankind."
     - Christine Downing, editor - Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life

131) "When we speak of archetypal images we are not referring simply to dream images or to mythological or literary images. We are, instead, speaking of a way to respond to our ordinary lives with our imaginations, rather than only pragmatically or logically. We are speaking of a way of being in the world that is open to many dimensions of meaning, open to resonances, echoes, to associative and synchronous connections, not only causal ones. We are speaking of a world discovered to be full of sign-ificance – of signs, symbols, metaphors, images."
     - Christine Downing, editor - Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life

132) "Archetypal images feel basic, necessary, and generative. They are connected to something original….They seem to give energy and direction. Archetypal images give rise to associations and lead us to other images; and we therefore experience them as having resonance, complexity, and depth. They feel universal."
     - Christine Downing, editor - Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life

133) "The archetypes represent the uniquely human means whereby instinctual, biological energy is transformed into the meaningful symbolic life of the human psyche." J. J. Clarke
     - Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D. - The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness

134) "Just as nature, body, and instinct express themselves in universal patterns, so does the human psyche. The archetypes of the preconscious are a priori form-generating propensities in the human mind, causing it to organize experience into certain patterns that may vary without losing their essential configuration and underlying identity."
     - Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D. - The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness

135) "These form-giving principles (archetypes) of the mind spell out the features of an inner world with its own significance and reality, a topos of the soul connecting the mind inwardly with its source and allowing it to experience the larger transpersonal world that creates and sustains it."
     - Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D. - The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness

136) "By using archetypal symbols that resonate on a universal level, art can evoke the complete range of possible life experiences, including the boundless nature of our souls." Alex Grey
     - Eliot Jay Rosen, editor - Experiencing the Soul

137) "I believe that on a higher level, everyone embodies the archetypal aspects of Jesus, Krishna, Mohammed, et cetera. These archetypes of our ideals serve to heal our sense of soul-loss. They help us remember a part of us that we often forget about in everyday life." Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., 'The Soul and Quantum Physics'
     - Eliot Jay Rosen, editor - Experiencing the Soul

138) "For the mystics – Shankara, Plato, Augustine, Eckhart, Garab Dorje, and so on – archetypes are the first subtle forms that appear as the world manifests out of formless and unmanifested Spirit. They are the patterns upon which all other patterns of manifestation are based."
     - Ken Wilber - Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

139) "The idea of wholeness is an archetype of deep significance." Gerhard Adler (b. 1904), English Jungian analyst, 'Studies in Analytical Psychology'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

140) "The essential realizations of the pivotal work of Jung's career were, first, that since the archetypes or norms of myth are common to the human species, they are inherently expressive neither of local social circumstance nor of any individual's singular experience, but of common human needs, instincts, and potentials." Joseph Campbell, 'The Portable Jung'
     - Ken Wilber - Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy

141) "Within the divine, incorporeal, and eternal sphere are included all the lower manifestations of life – all that is, has been, or ever shall be. Within the Kosmic Intellect all things spiritual or material exist as archetypes, or divine thought-forms."
     - Manly P. Hall - The Secret Teachings of All Ages

142) "The archetypes are abstract patterns formulated in the Divine Mind."
     - Manly P. Hall - The Secret Teachings of All Ages

143) "This world is but the shadow of God….All that is in the invisible archetypal sphere is revealed in the sensible corporeal world by the light of Nature."
     - Manly P. Hall - The Secret Teachings of All Ages

144) "The archetypal realm is not a figment of human fantasy and imagination; it has an independent existence of its own and a high degree of autonomy. At the same time, its dynamics seem to be intimately connected with material reality and with human life."
     - Stanislav Grof - The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

145) "Long ago Plato saw love, concrete human love, as one of the supreme and most adequate methods of giving us ecstasy and of opening us to a knowledge of the Ideas, of the spiritual world."
     - Morton T. Kelsey - Companions on the Inner Way

146) "Dante said, 'The elements of all things that Nature begins, whatever be their mode, observe an inner order. It is this Form that makes the Universe resemble God.'" Robert Lawlor, 'Pythagorean Number as Form, Color, and Light'
     - Christopher Bamford, editor - Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science

147) "The integrity of an individual life, no less than of the collective life that is culture, depends upon the myths. Their archetypal themes give form and meaning. Falling out of meaning, out of touch with archetypal structuring, means disintegration."
     - Edward C. Whitmont, MD - Return of the Goddess

148) "The Godhead IS, and his 'isness' contains goodness, love, wisdom, in their essence and principle." Meister Eckhart
     - Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy

149) "The ancient magical and mythological levels of our being, although 'unconscious' to our current modus operandi, need to be recognised as vital capacities of ours. If we fail to integrate them with our rational world view, we are likely to regress into a new barbarism rather than take the next step of conscious evolution."
     - Edward C. Whitmont, MD - Return of the Goddess

150) "In the mythopoetic fantasy, the soul experiences its own subjective reality. Myth is unashamed subjectivity. It depicts how the soul perceives existence. 'Once upon a time' implies forever and 'here' implies everywhere. This gives the fairy tale its moving impact. It evokes timeless truth."
     - Edward C. Whitmont, MD - Return of the Goddess

151) "Culture is not an arbitrary invention but a precipitate of archetypal dynamics."
     - Edward C. Whitmont, MD - Return of the Goddess

152) "She may play and dance as Artemis, allure as Aphrodite, domesticate as Vesta, or be maternal as Demeter. She may function as Athena by furthering civilization and skills, or be concerned with comfort and the relief of misery as Mary. These are but a few of the many faces of the Great Goddess."
     - Edward C. Whitmont, MD - Return of the Goddess

153) "The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms for ever in the Light."
     - Sri Aurobindo, edited by A. S. Dalal - A Greater Psychology, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought

154) "The purpose of human learning and philosophy is to reawaken in the soul remembrance of the eternal, spiritual realm of pure forms and ideas."
     - Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. - The Roots of Consciousness

155) "The sky is moist and dry, cold and hot, bright and obscured by turns; these are the rapidly alternating forms included under the one ideal or universal form of the sky. The earth is ever passing through many changes of form; it generates produce, it nourishes the produce it has generated, it yields all manner of crops, with manifold differences of quality and quantity; and above all, it puts forth many sorts of trees, differing in the scent of their flowers and the taste of their fruits. Water takes different forms, now standing, and now running. Fire undergoes many changes, and assumes godlike forms;…they are like our mirrors, and reproduce the ideal or universal form in visible copies with rival brilliance."
     - Walter Scott, translator - Hermetica

156) "Carl Jung spoke of a God-archetype within the psyche. The psyche has an affinity for God, a faculty for relationship with God."
     - John Welch, O. Carm. - Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila

157) "Appearing in dreams, fantasy, art, myth, and religion, and even in scientific thought, the archetypes design the entire field of human experience."
     - Charles Breaux - Journey Into Consciousness: The Chakras, Tantra and Jungian Psychology

158) "Plato argues for a hierarchy of Forms or Ideas, in which sensible images 'participate'. In the 'Timaeus', he makes them exemplary causes, models for the Divine Artificer or demiurge, in fashioning things from eternally existing matter."
     - Avery R. Dulles, James M. Demske, Robert J. O'Connell - Introductory Metaphysics

159) "Just as conscious apprehension gives our actions form and direction, so unconscious apprehension through the archetype determines the form and direction of instinct."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

160) "The unconscious, as the totality of all archetypes, is the deposit of all human experience right back to its remotest beginnings. Not, indeed, a dead deposit, a sort of abandoned rubbish-heap, but a living system of reactions and aptitudes that determine the individual's life in invisible ways."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

161) "Psychologically, the archetype as an image of instinct is a spiritual goal toward which the whole nature of man strives; it is the sea to which all rivers wend their way."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

162) "Underlying reality there is a world of archetypes, and reproductions of these make up the real things in the material world. The world of archetypes is heaven, the world of reproductions is the earth: there energy, here matter; there the Creative, here the Receptive. But it is the same tao [way] that is active both in the Creative and in the Receptive."
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - I Ching or The Book of Changes

163) "Dr. Jung points out that he has borrowed his term 'archetype' from classic sources: Cicero, Pliny, the Corpus Hermeticum, Augustine, etc. ('Psychology and Religion', par. 89). Bastian notes the correspondence of his own theory of 'Elementary Ideas' with the Stoic concept of the 'Logoi spermatikoi'. The tradition of the 'subjectively known forms' (Sanskrit: antarjneyarupa) is, in fact, coextensive with the tradition of myth, and is the key to the understanding and use of mythological images."
     - Joseph Campbell - Hero With A Thousand Faces

164) "Mankind has common instincts of imagination and of action. All conscious imagination and action have been developed with unconscious archetypal images as their basis, and always remain bound up with them." C. G. Jung
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - The Secret of the Golden Flower

165) "The psychosomatic entity that is everywhere being shaped – namely, the bioenergetic system of the one species, Homo sapiens sapiens – is and has been for some 40 millennia a constant. Hence, the 'elementary ideas' (Bastian) or 'archetypes of the collective unconscious (Jung), of this single species – which are biologically grounded and at once the motivating powers and connoted references of the historically conditioned metaphorical figures of mythologies throughout the world – are, like the laws of space, unchanged by changes of location."
     - Joseph Campbell - The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

166) "The first task of any systematic comparison of the myths and religions of mankind should be to identify these universals (or, as C. G. Jung termed them, archetypes of the unconscious) and as far as possible to interpret them."
     - Joseph Campbell - The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

167) "Since the archetypes, or elementary ideas, are not limited in their distributions by cultural or even linguistic boundaries, they cannot be defined as culturally determined."
     - Joseph Campbell - The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

168) "All my life, as a student of mythologies, I have been working with these archetypes, and I can tell you, they DO exist and are the same all over the world."
     - Joseph Campbell - Myths To Live By

169) "Platonic ideas are the structuring principles of all things, inherent in all, and to be recognized by the wakened mind."
     - Joseph Campbell - The Masks of God

170) "The fact is that with the knowledge and actual experience of these inner images [archetypes] a way is opened for reason and feeling to gain access to those other images which the teachings of religion offer to mankind."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

171) "The history of religion in its widest sense (including therefore mythology, folklore, and primitive psychology) is a treasure-house of archetypal forms from which [we] can draw helpful parallels and enlightening comparisons for the purpose of calming and clarifying a consciusness that is all at sea."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

172) "Universal archetypes are valid for all human beings, irrespective of race, culture and social conditions." Lama Anagarika Govinda, 'Symbols of Transformation'
     - various - The American Theosophist

173) "The word 'archetype' is derived from the Greek prefix which signifies a first or primal cause….The word is best taken for the numinous or abstract principle behind any thing or group of things in the phenomenal world. Being thus Numinous or Essential, it is not extended in space-time, but is what we would call a mathematical point with neither size or time-extension."
     - Laurence and Phoebe Bendit - The Transforming Mind

174) "The Absolute or Supreme God is the basic, or final Archetype in which all lesser archetypes originate and are resolved."
     - Laurence and Phoebe Bendit - The Transforming Mind

175) "Archetypal images have something in common throughout mankind."
     - Laurence and Phoebe Bendit - The Transforming Mind

176) "The universality of an archetype affirms the reality of the principle in question."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

177) "The archetype does not stem from forms or from figures or objective beings, but from images within the human spirit."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

178) "If these primal spiritual forces – these archetypal powers – can work through the collective unconscious to touch and influence [us] through our myth and ritual and imagination, including imaginative prayer, then we can in actual fact alter the course of history."
     - Morton Kelsey - Myth, History & Faith

179) "All things have their life and being from the wisdom of God…for according to the wisdom of God, which is the life of all things, was made all that was made…and this [wisdom] is that archetypal world, after whose likeness this sensible world was made." Hugh of St. Victor
     - Marie Louise vonFranz - Aurora Consurgens

180) "The feminine aspect of the God-image, as an archetype, is in fact form without limitation, eternal and yet manifest and repeatable in an infinite number of individuals."
     - Marie Louise vonFranz - Aurora Consurgens

181) "The earth is identical with the sublime figure of Wisdom….On closer examination this is really a tremendous thought. The 'Wisdom of God' in the Bible was the playmate of Yahweh, who was with him before the beginning of the world. In patristic literature she was defined as the 'archetypal world' or as the sum of eternal ideas in the mind of God, the prototypes from which he created all things."
     - Marie Louise vonFranz - Aurora Consurgens

182) "In its created being (the soul) incessantly receives the impress of its Eternal Archetype, like a flawless mirror, in which the image remains steadfast and in which the reflection is renewed without interruption by its ever-new reception in new light." John of Ruysbroeck, 'Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage'
     - Alan Watts - Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion

183) "Archetypes, that is, universal and inherited patterns, taken together, constitute the structure of the unconscious….archetypes are the forms or river-beds along which the current of psychic life has always flowed."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

184) "The archetypes…are to be understood as inborn modes of functioning that constitute, in their totality, man's nature."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

185) "Archetypes were, and still are, living psychic forces that demand to be taken seriously, and they have a strange way of making sure of their effect. Always they were the bringers of protection and salvation."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

186) "The archetype – let us never forget this – is a psychic organ present in all of us."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

187) "In myths and fairytales, as in dreams, the psyche tells its own story, and the interplay of the archetypes is revealed in its natural setting as 'formation, transformation/the eternal Mind's eternal recreation.'"
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

188) "The existence of the atom and its components may well consist in a continually repeated process of rejuvenation, and one comes to similar conclusions in trying to account for the numinosity of the archetypes."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

189) "Sooner or later nuclear physics and the psychology of the unconscious will draw closer together as both of them, independently of one another and from opposite directions, push forward into transcendental territory, the one with the concept of the atom, the other with that of the archetype."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

190) "The 'imago Dei' [God-image], is the archetype of the self in us."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

191) "The archetypal world is 'eternal', i.e., outside time, and it is everywhere."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

192) "Mandalas are also formed with the hands, danced, and represented in music (for instance Bach's 'Art of Fugue')….When a mandala is being formed, everything round and square known to man works on it too. But the impetus for its formation comes from the unconscious archetype."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

193) "The archetypes are in us, and eternal." Charles Lamb, 'The Essays of Elia (1821)
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

194) "As animals of the same kind show the same instinctual phenomena all over the world, man also shows the same archetypal forms no matter where he lives. As animals have no need to be taught their instinctive activities, so man also possesses his primordial psychic patterns and repeats them spontaneously, independently of any kind of teaching."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

195) "The archetypes have a life of their own which extends through the centuries and gives the aeons their peculiar stamp."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

196) "The archetype is a structural element of the psyche that we find everywhere and at all times; and it is that in which all individual psyches are identical with each other, and where they function as if they were the one undivided Psyche the ancients called 'anima mundi' [world soul]."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

197) "Archetypes are forms of different aspects expressing the creative psychic background. They are and always have been numinous and therefore 'divine.' In a very generalizing way we can therefore define them as attributes of the creator. That would explain the compelling character of such inner perceptions."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

198) "The archetype as a phenomenon is conditioned by place and time, but on the other hand, it is an invisible structural pattern independent of place and time, and like the instincts, proves to be an essential component of the psyche."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1906-1950

199) "The archetype is that which is believed always, everywhere, and by everybody."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

200) "Archetypal ideas are part of the indestructible foundations of the human mind. However long they are forgotten and buried, always they return….continually reproducing themselves in new forms representing the timeless truths that are innate in man's nature."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

201) "The physicist's models ultimately rest on the same archetypal foundations that also underlie the speculations of the theologian."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

202) "Empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness which manifests itself spontaneously in dreams, etc., and a tendency, independent of the conscious will, to relate other archetypes to this centre."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

203) "Nature itself rests on an internal foundation of archetypal principles symbolized by numbers, shapes, and their arithmetic and geometric relationships."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

204) "Archetypes are universal in that they are the same to everyone everywhere and in every era."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

205) "The world's material forms are only approximations of ideal, eternal archetypes."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

206) "Number should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both within and without." Marie Louise vonFranz
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

207) "The ancient mathematical philosophers probed into the archetypal patterns and found them in nature."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

208) "Numbers keep recurring not because we make them do so but because they are inherent in the proportions of nature that express the timeless mathematical archetypes."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

209) "Wherever conscious life becomes one-sided or adopts a false attitude, these [archetypal] images instinctively rise to the surface in dreams and in the visions of artists and seers to restore the psychic balance, whether of the individual or of the epoch."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

210) "Since archetypes are what give form to the collective unconscious, awareness of the archetypes in everyday living is a means by which the elements of existence may acquire a more conscious structure. Situations exist for the purpose of our being able to center and create ourselves anew through them."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

211) "The material world illustrates for us the Archetypal Powers in action, and then the pattern of the Archetypal Powers gives us a further clue by which we can penetrate more deeply into the lessons of the material world without losing our way."
     - Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips - The Sword and The Serpent

212) "Every major culture of the world includes in its mythology archetypal figures representing death and rebirth or transformation." Stanislav Grof
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

213) "The great mystics such as Shankara, Plato and Augustine used the term 'archetype' to designate the first subtle forms that appear as the world manifests out of unmanifest Spirit. They are the fundamental patterns upon which all patterns of manifestation are based. The Greek term, 'arche typon', meant original pattern. These subtle, transcendental forms, then, are the first forms of manifestation."
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

214) "As our soul contemplates its Archetype, so that Archetype in turn contemplates the One, which is its Source." Plotinus
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

215) "Shamans exercise their psychospiritual senses, and through this special form of imaginal knowing gain access to a visionary world that is not unlike the 'archetypal world' of Carl Jung. There shamans, dreamers, and visionaries return again and again, extending consciousness and reality at the source level of gnosis and creative process, a place where the self moves freely amid archetypes and universals, listening to the pulse and dynamic transorming patterns of the Universal Dance." Jean Houston, Foreword
     - Shirley Nicholson, Compiler - Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality

216) "Archetypal images are found in virtually all cultures and during all ages, thus representing a kind of universal language."
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

217) "Ultimately every archetype is merely an individual expression of one Universal energy pattern, which is our connection to the Divine." C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., Foreword
     - Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

218) "Archetypes are the architects of our lives. They are the energy companions through whom we can learn to understand ourselves."
     - Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

219) "As the intellectual historian Richard Tarnas points out,'Platonic Forms are not conceptual abstractions that the human mind creates by generalizing from a class of particulars. Rather, they possess a quality of being, a degree of reality that is superior to that of the concrete world. Platonic archetypes form the world and also stand beyond it. They manifest themselves within time and yet are timeless. They constitute the veiled essence of things.'"
     - Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

220) "We can relate to almost every archetype because our psyches and spirits are connected to the great collective of all the archetypal patterns."
     - Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

221) "According to the Ancient Wisdom, the world issues by means of archetypes, the Divine Ideas or forms of Plato. These are nonmaterial matrices or guiding fields, geometric in nature, which shape forms from within."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

222) "Archetypes are reflected in the biological orders, families, genera, species, in the orders of crystals, in the bodily pattern of man."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

223) "The archetypes serve as blueprints to guide the growing forms. They are like the perfect song on a conceptual level which individual singers bring into being in their unique way."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

224) "To the opened eye of the seer all nature is but a symbol, a partial and dim expression of the radiant beauty of the archetypes in the Divine Mind."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

225) "Evolution systematically reveals the divine archetypes, the Ideas of Plato. Forms unfold through evolution according to the pattern impressed on them by the archetype that governs their particular structure."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

226) "The archetypes precipitate as ever more complex forms in the material world in accordance with the cyclic development of consciousness….The sequential unfolding of the archetype's potential from simple to complex proceeds cyclically, according to an inner order."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

227) "Symbols are among the most profound expressions of human nature…certain images are universal and timeless, occurring n the East and West, in the ancient past and in our hurly-burly present….such universal images, or archetypes, carry dynamic, creative forces that move us deeply."
     - Charles Panati - Sacred Origins of Profound Things

228) "The sense of being in touch with something that feels collective, shared, is indeed part of what 'archetypal' connotes." Christine Downing, Prologue
     - Christine Downing, editor - Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life

229) "The archetypes of the collective unconscious are psychic components undergoing transformation in the direction of consciousness." Richard Roberts
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

230) "There is no excellence among the creatures which is not to be found in a much higher style, and as an archetype, in the Creator." Albertus Magnus (1193-1280)
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

231) "In all traditions meditation on archetypal forms has been used to reconstruct thought patterns, to integrate thoughts and feelings, and to free the adept from the apparent disorder of life."
     - Cherry Gilchrist - Theosophy, The Wisdom of the Ages

232) "Instincts and archetypes share in common the fact of being essentially collective, that is, universal and regularly occurring."
     - Maria F. Mahoney - The Meaning in Dreams and Dreaming

233) "Archetypal means a pattern which is universal and existent in all people in all cultures at all periods of history."
     - Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene - The Mythic Tarot

234) "In volume 18 of his Collected Works, Jung explained: 'The archetype is an inherited tendency of the human mind to form representations of mythological motifs – representations that vary a great deal without losing their basic pattern.'"
     - Robert L. Van deCastle, Ph.D. - Our Dreaming Mind

235) "Certain basic images are universal. From culture to culture, they may vary somewhat in surface details, or content, but in underlying form they are basically the same. These include the archetypes of figures such as the Hero, the Wise Old Man, the Great Mother, the Self, the Sun-God, the Demon, and events such as Birth, Death, the Initiation Rite, the Sacred Marriage."
     - David Loye - The Sphinx and The Rainbow: Brain, Mind and Future Vision

236) "All our actions are typifications of the divine archetypes." St. Gregory of Sinai, 'On Commandments and Doctrines'
     - various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios - The Philokalia, volume 4

237) "Archetypes form the world and also stand beyond it. They manifest themselves within time and yet are timeless. They constitute the veiled essence of things."
     - Richard Tarnas - The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

238) “Archetypes are universal themes – cross-cultural, transhistorical, and transreligious in world consciousness, i.e., in the collective Self.”
     - David Richo - Mary Within

239) “The forms which experience takes in each individual may be infinite in their variations, but they are all variants of certain central types, and these occur universally. They are the primordial images, from which the religions each draw their absolute truth.”
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

240) “Archetypes represent the law-determined course of all experienceable things.”
     - V S DeLasslo, editor - Basic Writings of C G Jung

241) “Archetypes represent the precipitate of psychic functioning of the whole ancestral line, i.e., the heaped-up, or pooled, experiences of organic existence in general, a million times repeated, and condensed into types. Hence, in these archetypes all experiences are represented which since primeval time have happened on this planet.”
     - V S DeLasslo, editor - Basic Writings of C G Jung

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     - David Bohm - Dialogue - A Proposal

1) "God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." Empedocles (490-430 BCE), fragment
     - Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors - The Quotable Spirit

2) "Even on this level, at animal depths, there is a desire for God. Does not St Thomas tell us in his Treatise on the Angels, that it is natural for every creature whatsoever, intelligent or not, living or inanimate, to love God more than itself and to tend to its proper good by virtue of this love of its transcendent Whole? Thus, the hen not only loves its chicks and not only loves itself; it loves God more than itself. The plant tends towards God before tending towards the Light and air. The stone gravitates towards the centre only by virtue of its natural tendency towards God, of its natural 'love' of God. And our eyes crave for light and our smallest physical fibres crave for life, by virtue of their profound tendency towards God, and of their ontological desire for God." Jacques Maritain, 'Scholastics and Politics'
     - Jacque Maritain - Scholastics and Politics

3) "By 'composing the unstable,' by bringing order into chaos, by resolving disharmonies and centering upon the mid-point, thus setting a 'boundary' to the multitude and focusing attention upon the cross, consciousness is reunited with the unconscious, the unconscious man is made oned with his center, which is also the center of the universe, and in this wise the goal of man's salvation and exaltation is reached."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

4) "In the establishment now proceeding through science and the philosophies of a collective human Weltanschauung in which every one of us cooperates and participates, are we not experiencing the first symptoms of an aggregation of a still higher order, the birth of some single center from the convergent beams of millions of elementary centers dispersed over the surface of the thinking earth?"
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Phenomenon of Man

5) "Behind apparent randomness stands the archetypal order of an individual cosmic play, directed by a transcendental center."
     - Edward C. Whitmont, MD - The Alchemy of Healing

6) "The most powerful archetypal experience of man is that of the Deity. As a matter of fact, from the standpoint of psychology this statement has to be reversed, and we have to say that man has called his most powerful experience "God." it is the experience of a supra-individual centre of existence, of a power that gives and takes life, of a point from which life springs and towards which it aims, and in which the meaning and purpose of creation and man's place in it seem to become apparent. In this archetypal experience of the Deity the polarity between the unconscious and the conscious psyche finds its synthesis, and the tension is resolved in a complete union of the opposites. It is an immediate and direct experience of an absolutely convincing character, and one that carries with it a feeling of self-evidence. It is not made by man but happens to him out of the depth of his psychic existence. In other words, it is a spontaneous occurrence whose psychic reality cannot be denied."
     - Gerhard Adler - Studies in Analytical Psychology

7) "The contemplation of God is based on a faith in God's love and goodness. Full healing and complete meaning come, ultimately, only from God at the center."
     - John Welch, O. Carm. - Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila

8) "The true Heaven wherein God dewells, is all over, in all Places (or Corners), even in the Midst (or Center) of the Earth….there is nothing that is without God." Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

9) "I am blind and do not see the things of this world; but when the light comes from above, it enlightens my heart and I can see, for the Eye of my heart sees everything and through this vision I can help my people. The heart is a sanctuary at the center of which there is a little space, wherein the Great Spirit dwells, and this is the Eye. This is the Eye of the Great Spirit by which He sees all things, and through which we see Him. If the heart is not pure, the Great Spirit cannot be seen." Black Elk, Native American Elder
     - Andrew Harvey - The Essential Mystics

10) "Now the heart of man, which is in the center of the body embracing everything, is the counterpart of the Holy of Holies which is the center of the world, and the Stone of Foundation. It embraces the sources and roots of all sanctities, just as does the Holy of Holies." Hayim of Volozhin, 19th century Rabbi
     - Raphael Ben Zion, Translator - Anthology of Jewish Mysticism

11) "By mystical theology and secret love, the soul continues to rise above all things and above itself, and to mount upward to God. For love is like fire, which ever rises upward with the desire to be absorbed in the center of its sphere."
     - St. John of the Cross - Dark Night of the Soul

12) "The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale - as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented,or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source."
     - Joseph Campbell - Hero With A Thousand Faces

13) "Sickness is healed by the action of the true and Universal Center upon the body. This Center is the One in which we are rooted. If, therefore, you are to recover from bodily and spiritual sickness, study to know and to understand exactly this Center, and apply yourself wholly thereto, and you will be freed from imperfections and diseases." Gerhard Dorn, Medieval Alchemist and Philosopher
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

14) "The dualities are, at bottom, Yes and No, the irreconcilable opposites, but they have to be held together if the balance of life is to be maintained. This can only be done by holding unswervingly to the centre, where action and suffering balance each other. It is a path 'sharp as the edge of a razor.' A climax like this, where universal opposites clash, is at the same time a moment when a wide perspective often opens out into the past and future. This is the psychological moment when, as the consensus gentium has established since ancient times, synchronistic phenomena occur - that is, when the far appears near." (A Study in the Process of Individuation)
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

15) "Stones towards the earth descend; rivers to the ocean roll; Every motion has some end; - What is thine, beloved soul?" John Byrom (1692-1763), English poet, 'The Soul's Tendency towards its True Centre'
     - Angela Partington, editor - Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition

16) "The word goes forth from soul to form. 'Both sides are one. There is no war, no difference and no isolation. The warring forces seem to war from the point at which you stand. Move on a pace. See truly with the opened eye of inner vision and you will find, not two but one; not war but peace; not isolation but a heart which rests upon the center. Thus shall the beauty of the Lord shine forth. The hour is now.'"
     - Alice A. Bailey - Esoteric Psychology II

17) This center which is here, but which we know is really everywhere, is Wakan-Tanka. All the things of the universe are joined with you who smoke the pipe — All send their voices to Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit. When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.
     - John Neihardt - Black Elk Speaks

18) To the center of the world you have taken me and showed the goodness and the beauty and the strangeness of the greening earth, the only mother— and there the spirit shapes of things, as they should be, you have shown to me and I have seen. At the center of this sacred hoop, you have said that I should make the tree to bloom. With tears running, O Great Spirit, Great Spirit, my Grandfather— with running tears I must say now that the tree has never bloomed. A pitiful old man, you see me here, and I have fallen away and have done nothing. Here at the center of the world, where you took me when I was young and taught me; here, old, I stand, and the tree is withered, Grandfather, my Grandfather! Again, and maybe the last time on this earth, I recall the great vision you sent me. It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds. Hear me, not for myself, but for my people; I am old. Hear me that they may once more go back into the sacred hoop and find the good red road, the shielding tree!
     - John Neihardt - Black Elk Speaks

19) I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth, —you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.
     - John Neihardt - Black Elk Speaks

20) "God fashioned the sphere of light round himself. 'God is an intelligible sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere'(cf. St. Bonaventure, Itinerarium, 5). The point symbolizes light and fire, also the Godhead in so far as light is an 'image of God' or an 'exemplar of the Deity.' This spherical light modelled on the point is also the shining or illuminating body that dwells in the heart of man."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

21) "The point is identical with the scintilla, the 'little soul-spark' of Meister Eckhart. We find it already in the teachings of Saturninus. Similarly Heraclitus is said to have conceived the soul as a 'spark of stellar essence.' Hippolytus says that in the doctrine of the Sethians the darkness 'held the brightness and the spark of light in thrall', and that this 'smallest of sparks' was finely mingled in the dark waters below….Alchemy, too, has its doctrine of the scintilla. It is the fiery centre of the earth, where the four elements 'project their seed in ceaseless movement'….In the centre dwells the Archaeus, the servant of nature, whom Paracelsus also calls Vulcan, identifying him with the Adech, the 'great man.'"
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

22) "The invisible centre is Adam Kadmon, the Original Man."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

23) "The image of the triune God is in the sphere, namely of the Father in the center, of the Son in the outer surface and of the Holy Ghost in the uniformity of connection between point and intervening space or surroundings." Johannes Kepler, 'Mysterium Cosmographicum', quoted by Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) in 'Embracing the Rational and the Mystical'
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

24) "May the time come when people, having been awakened to a sense of the close bond linking all the movements of this owrld in the single, all-embracing work of the Incarnation, shall be unable to give themselves to any one of their tasks without illuminating it with the clear vision that their work – however elementary it may be – is received and put to good use by a Centre of the universe."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Divine Milieu

25) "However vast the divine milieu may be, it is in reality a centre. It therefore has the properties of a centre, and above all the absolute and final power to unite (and consequently to complete) all beings within its breast."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Divine Milieu

26) "Never during its pilgrimage is the spirit of man completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman – the self-luminous abiding point, boundless as the sky, indivisible, absolute, the only reality." Huston Smith, 'Karma, Rebirth and Freewill'
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

27) "Philosophically viewed, the whirling wheel and its ever motionless center can be a potent symbol of the human struggle toward insight and harmony…..Only in the still center of the imperishable Self is true perspective apparently achieved."
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

28) "There dwells in the heart of every creature the Master who by his magic power causes all things and creatures to revolve mounted upon the universal wheel of time. Take sanctuary with him with all thy soul." Krishna, 'The Bhagavad Gita'
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

29) "The organizing center from which the regulatory effect stems seems to be a sort of 'nuclear atom' in our psychic system. One could also call it the inventor, organizer, and source of dream images. Jung called this center the 'Self'….Throughout the ages people have been intuitively aware of the existence of such an inner center. The Greeks called it man's inner 'daimon'; in Egypt it was expressed by the concept of the 'Ba-soul'; and the Romans worshiped it as the 'genius' native to each individual. In more primitive societies it was often thought of as a protective spirit embodied within an animal or a fetish." Marie Louise vonFranz
     - Carl Jung - Man and His Symbols

30) "By birth and growth the spirit-architect expands into this mass of which we consist, spreading outwards from the heart. Thither again it withdraws, winding up the threads of its web, returning by the same path along which it advanced, passed out by the same gate through which it entered. Birth is expansion of the center….death contraction to the center. It is the soul that gathers about it, groups and vivifies the atom-mass." Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher and poet, quoted in J. Lewis McIntyre's 'Giordano Bruno', Macmillan, 1903
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

31) "The number one is equivalent to the 'Centre', to the non-manifest point, to the creative power of the 'unmoved mover'.
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

32) "The psyche of humanity contains…the divine Monad at the center."
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

33) "The center of a spiral labyrinth may be likened to the maw of a dragon/serpent/crocodile in which the spirit/soul is devoured. But the way back is through the center; thus to be devoured is to be reborn,…a labyrinth is a form of Recycling Center."
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

34) "In all symbols expressive of the mystic Centre, the intention is to reveal to Man the meaning of the primordial 'paradisal state' and to teach him to identify himself with the supreme principle of the universe. This centre is in effect Aristotle's 'unmoved mover'…Hindu doctrine declares that God resides in the centre, at that point where the radii of a wheel meet at its axis. In diagrams of the cosmos, the central space is always reserved for the Creator…Among the Chinese, the infinite being is frequently symbolized as a point of light with concentric circles spreading outwards from it."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

35) "The sphere is a whole, and hence it underlies the symbolic significance of all those images which partake of this wholeness, from the idea of the mystic 'Centre' to that of the world and eternity, or , more particularly, of the world-soul. In neo-platonic philosophy, the soul is explicitly related to the shape of the sphere, and the substance of the soul is deposited as quintessence around the concentric spheres of the four Elements. The same is true of the primordial man of Plato's Timaeus….Another important association is that of perfection and felicity. The absence of corners and edges is analogous to the absence of inconveniences, difficulties, and obstacles."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

36) "There is a root or depth in you from whence all these faculties come forth as lines from a centre, or as branches from the body of a tree. The depth is called the centre, the fund, or bottom of the soul. This depth is the unity, the Eternity, I had almost said the infinity of your soul, for it is so infinite that nothing can satisfy it, or give it any rest, but the infinity of God." William Law (1688-1761), English clergyman, 'The Spirit of Prayer'
     - Evelyn Underhill - Mysticism

37) "One: Symbolic of being and of the revelation of the spiritual essence. It is the active principle which, broken into fragments, gives rise to multiplicity, and is to be equated with the mystic Centre, the Irradiating Point and the Supreme Power. It also stands for spiritual unity – the common basis between all beings."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

38) "Point: The point signifies unity, the Origin and the Centre. It also represents the principles of manifestation and emanation….There are two kinds of point to be considered: that which has no magnitude and is symbolic of creative virtue, and that which – as suggested by Ramon Lull in his 'Nova Geometria' – has the smallest conceivable or practicable magnitude and is a symbol of the principle of manifestation. Moses deLeon defined the nature of the original Point as follows: 'This degree is the sum total of all subsequent mirrors, that is, of all external aspects related to this one degree. They proceed therefrom because of the mystery of the point, which is in itself an occult degree emanating from the mystery of the pure and awe-inspiring ether.'"
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

39) "As all numbers are in the One, as all radii of the circle are in the centre, and as the powers of all the members are in the soul, so, it is said, is God in all things and all things in God….God is the centre of any one thing – a centre the periphery of which is nowhere."
     - William Huffman, editor - Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series

40) "The centre of the soul is God; and, when the soul has attained to Him according to the whole capacity of its being, which is the strength and virtue of the soul, it will have reached the last and the deep centre of the soul, which will be when with all its powers it loves and understands and enjoys God."
     - St. John of the Cross - Living Flame of Love

41) "I think of grass – you know, every two weeks a chap comes out with a lawnmower and cuts it down. Suppose the grass were to say, 'Well, for Pete's sake, what's the use if you keep getting cut down this way?' Instead, it keeps on growing. That's the sense of the energy of the center. That's the meaning of the image of the Grail, of the inexhaustible fountain, of the source."
     - Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth

42) "The passion for the essence of Good or of Beauty is a movement toward the centre, and it entails discipline, purification, contemplation, and entry into a spiritual communion. There is, moreover, when transcending Love has been attained, a return movement of the spirit, so that signs of the Eternal are detected in people and creatures and the manifestations of nature."
     - Sheldon Cheney - Men Who Have Walked With God

43) "The primal center is the innermost light, of a translucence, subtlety, and purity beyond comprehension. That inner point extended becomes a 'palace' which acts as an enclosure for the center, and is also of a radiance translucent beyond the power to know it." 'Zohar', edited by Gershom Scholem, Schocken, New York 1963
     - Willis Barnstone, editor - The Other Bible

44) "Actually there is no merging with the Center. We are always merged with the Center. It is rather an understanding of this eternal union now, and not a manufacture of it tomorrow."
     - Ken Wilber - Spectrum of Consciousness

45) "Mind is the pivot of the human structure, or the centre on which the spititual and material parts of man are made to turn."
     - Alice A. Bailey - A Treatise on Cosmic Fire

46) "The center of one's being coincides with the center of all things."
     - Bruno Borchert - Mysticism, Its History and Challenge

47) "Work with symbols will be found of real value if you persevere. I would give you a hint about them which your intuition will reveal. Where the converging lines of any symbol meet and where the many lines cross there is a point of force and of illumination, a focussed centre through which the illumined mind can pierce. Ponder on this."
     - Alice A. Bailey - Discipleship in the New Age

48) "There was a muddy centre before we breathed. There was a myth before the myth began….Venerable and articulate and complete." Wallace Stevens, American poet
     - Dudley Young - Origins of the Sacred

49) "God is central in each part of the universe, down to the tiniest atom."
     - Bruno Borchert - Mysticism, Its History and Challenge

50) "The entire universe is a great theater of mirrors, a set of hieroglyphs to decipher; everything is a sign, everything harbors and manifests mystery. The principles of contradiction, of excluded middle, and of linear causality are supplanted by those of resolution, of included middle, and of synchronicity."
     - Alice A. Bailey - Esoteric Psychology II

51) "Everywhere are to be found centres of force, and the idea can be extended from such a force centre as a chemical atom, on and up through varying grades and groups of such intelligent centres, to humanity, and thence to the Life which is manifesting through the system. Thus is demonstrated a marvellous and synthesised Whole."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Consciousness of the Atom

52) "In the process of evolution atoms themselves gravitate towards other and greater central points, becoming in their turn electrons. Thus, every form is but an aggregate of smaller lives."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Consciousness of the Atom

53) Always in the centre shall come a new Word." Mexican aphorism
     - Alice A. Bailey - From Bethlehem to Calvary

54) "Smaller than the small, I am that centre within you, the needle's eye through which all the threads of the universe are drawn." Paul Murray (b. 1947), Dominican priest and lecturer on mystical theology
     - David Schiller - God, A Companion for Seekers

55) "If the life-mass is to be transformed a 'circumambulatio' is necessary, that is, exclusive concentration on the centre, the place of creative change." 'Psychology and Alchemy'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

56) "When we go to the center, we leave behind time and place and separateness. We come to our Source and are in the Being from which we ever flow and in which we ever stand and apart from which we are not."
     - M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O. - Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

57) "He is to be found in the depths of our being, at the center, at the ground of our being, perceived by the searching light of faith or the knowing embrace of love….He is within. And there we are so one with Him that we are communion, union, prayer."
     - M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O. - Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

58) "Since consciousness has always been described in terms derived from the behavior of light, it is in my view not too much to assume that these multiple luminosities correspond to ..conscious phenomena. If the luminosity appears in monadic form as a single star, sun, or eye, it readily assumes the shape of a mandala and must then be interpreted as the self…The symbols of the self have a uniting character." 'On The Nature of the Psyche', CW 8
     - V S DeLasslo, editor - Basic Writings of C G Jung

59) "At the centre of ourselves, deeper than any dissecting knife can reach or than any physical investigation can fathom, lies buried the vital and immortal principle, the glimmering ray that affiliates us to the Divine Centre of all life, and that is never wholly extinguished however…imperfect our lives may be."
     - W. L. Wilmshurst - The Meaning of Masonry

60) "At the secret centre of individual human life exists a vital, immortal principle, the spirit and the spiritual will of man. This is the faculty, by using which we can never err. It is a point within the circle of our own nature."
     - W. L. Wilmshurst - The Meaning of Masonry

61) "The love of the One is actively concerned in awakening each life to its true center." Douglas V. Steere (b. 1901), philosophy teacher and author
     - Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors - Devotional Classics

62) "Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice, to which we may continuously return." Thomas Kelly (1893-1941), American teacher of philosophy
     - Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors - Devotional Classics

63) "Unconsciously dwelling at our inmost center; beneath the surface shuttlings of our sensations, precepts, and thoughts; wrapped in the envelope of soul (which too is finally porous) is the eternal and the divine, the final Reality."
     - Huston Smith - Beyond the Post-Modern Mind

64) "God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him."
     - Annie Besant - The Ancient Wisdom

65) "The life of the Logos abiding in each form is its central, controlling, and directing energy."
     - Annie Besant - The Ancient Wisdom

66) "At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance."
     - Geoffrey Hodson - Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination

67) "The soul, which is immortal, has an arithmetical, as the body has a geometrical, beginning. This beginning, as the reflection of the great universal Archaeus, is self-moving, and from the centre diffuses itself over the whole body of the microcosm."
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled

68) "If a spiritual principle is omnipresent at all times, then no object can ever be moved so that it either approaches closer to or retires farther from spirit; for spirit has its center everywhere and its circumference nowhere."
     - Manly P. Hall - Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

69) "The person who successfully probes his own inner nature and existence back to its Centre and Core, finds one single source of all men, all beings, all existence. Unity then emerges as the supreme verity, the everlasting truth."
     - Geoffrey Hodson - Basic Theosophy

70) "All things proceed from God, who is at once the centre and the circumference from which all existing lines proceed and at which all end up." Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), Mexican nun, poet and scholar
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

71) "To pray is to move to the center of all life and all love. The closer I come to the hub of life, the closer I come to all that receives its strength and energy from there….What does the hub represent? I think of it as my own heart, the heart of God, and the heart of the world. When I pray, I enter into the depth of my own heart and find there the heart of God, who speaks to me of love. And I recognize, right there, the place where all of my sisters and brothers are in communion with one another." Henri J. M. Nouwen, Catholic author, 'Here and Now'
     - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

72) "Every point in the cosmos can be considered its centre."
     - Dorothy Maclean - To Hear the Angels Sing

73) "The personal center of the individual is essentially the Self (atman), which is beyond the particularities of physical-psychic-mental life or of any changeable things or of change as such."
     - Michael vonBruck - The Unity of Reality

74) "You might think of the mandala as reflecting back to us the harmony and beauty of our nonmaterial reality."
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

75) "Jung's involvement with the mandala culminated in his insight that it represented the center, the midpoint that balance all dualities." Michael Flanagin, Ph.D., 'The Mandala in Jungian Psychotherapy'
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

76) "In both dreams and religion, the relation of the center to the mandala expresses the relation between the potential and the actual." Michael Flanagin, Ph.D., 'The Mandala in Jungian Psychotherapy'
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

77) "The mandala embraces both directions, which is why it is the consummate archetype of East and West alike. As the 'alpha and omega', the center is a union of opposites – a reflection of the true higher Self." ." Michael Flanagin, Ph.D., 'The Mandala in Jungian Psychotherapy'
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

78) "Look at the spokes of a bicycle wheel. At the rim, each spoke is separated from all the others. At the hub, each spoke is one with all the others. Each of us is like one of those spokes, connected with all the others at the center, at our spiritual hub."
     - Marianne Williamson - The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

79) "We're like the spokes on a wheel, all radiating out from the same center. If you define us according to our position on the rim, we seem separate and distinct from one another. But if you define us according to our starting point, our source – the center of the wheel – we're a shared identity."
     - Marianne Williamson - A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

80) "Your psyche is spherical, whole and complete. When you are approaching an experience of that wholeness, you begin to notice circles and spheres. The sun and moon are magnificent spherical mandalas, and isn't it a wonderful gift that both by day and by night, the heavens present the symbol of your wholeness to you?....The sphere contains the center point of your cohesive power. It can be used as an imaging device to aid in your movement toward wholeness."
     - Mary-Margaret Moore - Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream

81) "The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
     - Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal - As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life

82) "The centre is that microcosmic point in which the macrocosm is concentrated."
     - Anthony Stevens - Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind

83) "So long as man shall exist, perfection will continue to appear as the circle, sphere, and the round; and the Primal Deity who is sufficient unto himself, and the self who has gone beyond the opposites, will reappear in the image of the round, the mandala." Erich Neumann, 'The Origins and History of Consciousness'
     - Anthony Stevens - Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind

84) "The Mandala is a figure or design found in the art of virtually all peoples. It is based on a perfectly balanced circle, in which the mid-point is given a particularly great importance."
     - Ira Progoff, Ph.D. - Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning

85) "If you go into your garden, you may feel yourself present in the divine embrace right there in the presence of a golden sunflower with a mandala for its center – the Immanence of the Transcendent in the flower."
     - Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson - Dancing in the Flames, The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness

86) "The unconscious can be reached and expressed only by symbols, and art, myth, dream, and fantasy, with their symbolic propensities, are effective psychopomps, leading the mind to an anamnesis of the origins of psychic life. The result of this anamnesis (an 'unforgetting' or rediscovery) is, on the one hand, an accession to power and vitality resultant from this integration. On the other hand, the mind experiences a perception of something akin to essential form and divinity at the heart of the creation and begins to sense an underlying acausal pattern of continuous creation. The two aspects coalesce in spontaneous images, often taking the form of a mandala and emphasizing a unifying centrality surrounded by a symmetrical quaternary or circular structure suggesting a microcosmic-macrocosmic identity between creature and the cosmic creation."
     - Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D. - The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness

87) "The integrated personality does not merely express the individual totality, for in the actualization of his own a priori wholeness the individual also discovers his relatedness to a super-individual centre. This centre is the self which is paradoxically the quintessence of the individuum and at the same time of the collectivum. In other words: the experience of wholeness coincides with the experience of a centre of the personality and a meaning of life which transcends the individual. This is expressed for instance in the words of Nicolaus of Cusa who makes God say to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'" Gerhard Adler (b. 1904), English Jungian analyst, 'Studies in Analytical Psychology'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

88) "Healing comes from the mystery at the center."
     - John Welch, O. Carm. - Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila

89) "Fix your attention on the centre, the room or palace occupied by the King."
     - Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle

90) "The Path is constructed by the aspirant as the spider spins its web out of the centre of his own being."
     - Jack and Cornelia Addington - Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved

91) "Let the OM be heard right at the center of the group, proclaiming God is All."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Rays and The Initiations

92) "The circle with the point in the centre is symbolic of the perfected man. He is rounded out; he is inclusive both vertically (soul contact) and horizontally (human relationship)."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Rays and The Initiations

93) "The divine eye is center everywhere, circumference nowhere."
     - Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi

94) "A great many traditions trace the creation of the World to a central point from which it is supposed to have spread out in the four cardinal directions."
     - Mircea Eliade - Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities

95) "The symbolism of the 'Centre', which plays a considerable part in every religion, is integral with the symbolism of Heaven: it is at the 'Centre of the World' that the break through the plane may take place, making it possible to enter into Heaven."
     - Mircea Eliade - Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities

96) "The hearth in the home, the altar in the temple, is the hub of the wheel of the earth, the womb of the Universal Mother whose fire is the fire of life."
     - Joseph Campbell - Hero With A Thousand Faces

97) "The centre is omnipresent; everything is contained in it; it is connected with the release of the whole process of creation."
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - The Secret of the Golden Flower

98) "Black Elk's word, 'The center is everywhere', is matched by a statement from a hermetic, early medieval text, 'The Book of the Twenty-four Philosophers': 'God is an infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
     - Joseph Campbell - The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

99) "The pair of opposites is always there until one can find the center. Then in the center one can move and then go freely." Jean Erdman, Joseph Campbell's wife
     - Phil Cousineau, editor - The Hero's Journey

100) "In being one with the Divine, or what the Native Americans of the plains might call the Great Spirit, we are also at the center of the cosmos. In relationship with the Great Spirit, we share this same center. Let us find peace in this unity."
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

101) "There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fulness." Robert Browning
     - Rudolf Steiner - Mystics after Modernism

102) "Every place is the center because God is an infinite, intelligible sphere – totally unlimited and undetermined. Wherever the Divine is, that is the center."
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

103) "To say that God is Infinite is to say that He may be apprehended and described in an infinity of ways. That Circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere, may be approached from every angle with a certainty of being found."
     - Evelyn Underhill - Mysticism

104) "We enclose you in the sacred circle of life. We ask you all to join in the circle. We put all creation in the circle, especially what is broken and needs healing. We put all of you in the circle because we love all of you." Burton Pretty On Top, Crow (Native American) spiritual leader, to the Parliament of World Religions, 1993
     - various - The Quest

105) "The center of the circle is the point of transformation. It corresponds to pure essence, to timelessness, to transparent light."
     - Starhawk (Miriam Simos) - The Spiral Dance, A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

106) "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."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Phenomenon of Man

107) "Each cell divides (by mitotic or amitotic division) and gives birth to another cell similar to itself. First, a single centre; then two. Everything in the subsequent development of life stems from this potent primordial phenomenon."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Phenomenon of Man

108) "Goodwill abides at the centre. This centre... is everywhere, and is hence, in a certain sense, to be found in all."
     - Arthur Edward Waite - Lamps of Western Mysticism

109) "The centre of grace is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
     - Arthur Edward Waite - Lamps of Western Mysticism

110) "One aspect of the soul is always joined with the center of creation, and this is our eternal link with truth."
     - Rabbi David A. Cooper - God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism

111) "The symbology of philosophers, founders of religions and poets is wholly idealist and cosmic in direction, embracing all objects, seeking after the infinite and pointing to the mysteries of the mystical 'centre.'"
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

112) "The idea of rotation is the keystone of most transcendent symbols: of the mediaeval 'Rota'; of the Wheel of Buddhist transformations; of the zodiacal cycle; of the myth of the Gemini; and of the 'opus' [work] of the alchemists. The idea of the world as a labyrinth or of life as a pilgrimage leads to the idea of the 'centre' as a symbol of the absolute goal of Man – Paradise regained….Pictorially, this central point is sometimes identified with the geometric centre of the symbolic circle."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

113) "Hindu doctrine declares that God resides in the centre, at that point where the radii of a wheel meet at its axis. In diagrams of the cosmos, the central space is always reserved for the Creator."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

114) "A great many ritual acts have the sole purpose of finding out the spiritual 'Centre' of a locality, which then becomes the site, either in itself or by virtue of the temple built upon it, an 'image of the world'."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

115) "All centres are symbols of eternity, since time is the motion of the periphery of the wheel of phenomena rotating around the Aristotelian 'unmoved mover'."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

116) "In cabalistic symbolism, the sacred palace, or the 'inner palace', is located at the junction of the six Directions of Space which, together with the centre, form a septenary... This concept of the Centre embraces the heart and the mind."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

117) "The point signifies unity, the Origin and the Centre. It also represents the principles of manifestation and emanation, and hence in some mandalas the centre is not actually shown but must be imagined….There are two kinds of point to be considered: that which has no magnitude and is symbolic of creative virtue, and that which – as suggested by Raymond Lull in his 'Nova Geometria' – has the smallest conceivable or practicable magnitude and is a symbol of the principle of manifestation."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

118) "The mystic 'Centre' [is] the non-apparent point which is the irradiating origin of every branch and shoot of the great Tree of the World."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

119) "The vertical axis through the centre of the Yang-Yin constitutes the unvarying mean or, in other words, the mystic 'Centre' where there is no rotation, no restlessness, no impulse, nor any suffering of any kind. It corresponds to the central zone of the Wheel of Transformations in Hindu symbolism, and the centre or the way out of the labyrinth in Egyptian and western symbolism."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

120) "God…is the center of all selves."
     - Valentin Tomberg - Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition

121) "Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together."
     - Valentin Tomberg - Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition

122) "Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE God, transcending the self, the centerpoint of the world."
     - Valentin Tomberg - Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition

123) "God is the centre of any one thing – a centre the periphery of which is nowhere."
     - William Huffman, editor - Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series

124) "The centre of a circle is regarded as the indivisible source of all the radii extending from it;…pre-existing in God are all the inner essences of created things." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Second Century on Theology'
     - various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain - The Philokalia, volume 2

125) "In unity, in a point, and a centre, which are the three principles of number, measure and weight, are all things created…and in God they are all things;…for in the centre He sustains all, in the point fulfils all, and in unity perfects all." 'Theatrum Chemicum' (1622),
     - Marie Louise vonFranz - Aurora Consurgens

126) "God is the dazzling light that constitutes the creative center of all life and movement. In that Point every 'where' and every 'when' are centered." Dante, 'The Divine Comedy', translated by Matthew Fox
     - Matthew Fox - The Coming of the Cosmic Christ

127) "The fire at the center of the tepee, pipe, or of sweat lodge represents Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit within the world. How close this comes to Meister Eckhart's teaching that a 'spark of the soul' burns within every creature and every human that will never be extinguished and that this spark of the soul is the divine presence within us all. All of creation shares in this holiness."
     - Matthew Fox - The Coming of the Cosmic Christ

128) "Every point is equally the center of a circle whose radius is infinite."
     - Charles W. Leadbeater - The Inner Life

129) "That consciousness, wide as the sea, with 'its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere', is a great and glorious FACT."
     - Charles W. Leadbeater - The Inner Life

130) "On the sense and emotional levels there may be little or no peace, but in the center of the soul there are stability and serenity."
     - Thomas Dubay, S.M. - Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel - on Prayer'

131) "The energy of the central point is manifested in the almost iresistible compulsion and urge to become what one is, just as every organism is driven to assume the form that is characteristic of its nature, no matter what the circumstances."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

132) "All religious traditions assume that there is a sacred center to all things. The name differs from religious form to religious form, but it is clear that there is an inherent tendency for human beings to encounter this sacred center."
     - Stephen Harrod Buhner - One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality

133) "The exchange of love between the contemplative person and the sacred center of all things keeps one on the path."
     - Stephen Harrod Buhner - One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality

134) "At the center of all is a sacred thing that is alive and aware. It is the source of all things."
     - Stephen Harrod Buhner - One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality

135) "Many paths lead to the central experience. But the nearer one gets to the centre the easier it is to understand the other paths that lead there."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

136) "The centre is the indivisible monad of the self, the unity and wholeness of the experiencing subject."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

137) "When I began drawing mandalas, I saw that everything, all the paths I had been following, all the steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point – namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation."
     - Carl Jung (edited by Aniela Jaffe) - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

138) "Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin. If the soul knows this, it will move around this center from which it came, will cling to it and commune with it as indeed all souls should….for divinity consists in being attached to the center." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
     - Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J. - The Essential Plotinus

139) "Every little spark of beauty's burning is but a fragment of the central fire." Sister M. Angelita, 'Lesser Fires' (20th century)
     - John Chapin, Editor - The Book of Catholic Quotations

140) "There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come."
     - Richard Wilhelm - Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change

141) "We know the energy that causes water to circulate: it is the sun and her unlimited and divine energy. Perhaps we ought to assume the existence of a similar energy for spiritual realms – a sort of central sun."
     - Richard Wilhelm - Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change

142) "All of Chinese thinking – Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism – contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center."
     - Richard Wilhelm - Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change

143) "In the centre of the heart dwells the true soul, the breath of God." Paracelsus, 'Liber Azoth'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

144) "The accentuation of the centre is a fundamental idea in alchemy. According to Michael Maier, the centre contains the 'indivisible point', which is simple, indestructible, and eternal."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

145) "The One is the midpoint of the circle."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

146) "There is but one point in the universe where God communicates with us, and that is the center of our own soul." Archbishop Ullathorne, 'Humility and Patience' (19th century)
     - John Chapin, Editor - The Book of Catholic Quotations

147) "All this, then, was the plan of the everlasting god for the god who was going to be. According to this plan he made the body of the world smooth and uniform, everywhere equidistant from its center, a body whole and complete, with complete bodies for its parts. And in the centre he set the soul and caused it to extend throughout the whole body, and he further wrapped the body round with soul on the outside. So he established one world alone." Plato, 'Timaeus'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

148) "Since olden times the circle with a centre has been a symbol for the Deity, illustrating the wholeness of God incarnate."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

149) "That Jacob Boehme should obtain a glimpse into the center of nature by means of a sunbeam reflected in a tin platter is understandable."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

150) "If we study the introspective method of medieval natural philosophy, we find that it repeatedly used the circle, and in most cases the circle divided into four parts, to symbolize the central principle."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

151) "Traditionally, the center is the most honorable place, known to the Greeks as 'the keep of Zeus.' Protector of hearths and boundaries (centers and circumferences) and the source of moral order, Zeus dispensed judgment from the center."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

152) "At the center of our Self, deep within our consciousness, is a calm 'I.' Like the calm 'eye' within a storm, our center is untouched by psychological turbulence. Peaceful, it observes all from the vantage of wisdom. Placid, it is unmoved by the turbulent weather of the surrounding psyche. When you're feeling connected with your center it seems very familiar. It feels like the Self you know best, like who and what you know your Self to be, calm in knowing without thinking. To be centered is not the same as being 'self-centered' or selfish. Instead, it is identity with the deep, divine power that motivates us."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

153) "The presence of the Incarnate Word penetrates everything, as a universal element. It shines at the common heart of things, as a centre that is infinitely intimate to them."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Science and Christ

154) "The world is…a single sphere with countless centres from which it can be observed and from which action can emanate."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Science and Christ

155) "The absolute, the intelligible, lies at the centre, in the direction in which everything is heightened to the point of being but one."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Science and Christ

156) "Every substance is held up by a series of Substances-of-Substance that support one another, step by step, up to the Supreme Centre at which everything converges."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Science and Christ

157) "The world we know does not develop haphazardly, but is structurally dominated by a Personal Centre of universal convergence."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Science and Christ

158) "Love is the most universal, formidable and mysterious of cosmic energies. From the point of view of spiritual Evolution, it seems that we might be able to give a name and a value to this strange energy of love. Could it not be, in essence, the attraction which is exercised upon each conscious element by the center of the universe? The call toward the great union, whose attainment is the only real business in nature…?"
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Building the Earth

159) "We are the countless centres of one and the same sphere."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

160) "God, who is as immense and all-embracing as matter, and at the same time as warm and intimate as a soul, is the Centre who spreads through all things."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

161) "Each monad is to some degree the centre of the entire Cosmos, resting upon and at the same time supporting its fabric."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

162) "It will not be long before no structure of truth or goodness can be built up without a central position being reserved for that soul [the soul of the world], for its influence and its universal mediation."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Soul of the World

163) "Precisely because there exists in all beings a common centre, scattered and separable though they are in appearance, they meet together at a deeper level. The more they perfect themselves naturally and sanctify themselves in grace, the more they come together and fuse into one, within the single, unifying Centre to which they aspire: and we may call that Centre equally well the point upon which they converge, or the ambiance in which they float. All these reachings-out that draw beings together and unify them constitute the axis of all individual and collective life."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

164) "The inter-personal contains the hopes of higher union on which evolution lives. It is the milieu of the monads' mutual attraction and confluence that sustains their final centre of coalescence."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

165) "Basically, the whole of the world's psychism [psyche] gravitates towards a single centre."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

166) "I dreamed of a common centre into which all things would drive the most vital roots of their sensibility and energy; a universal Centre, living and benign, that would itself reinforce our desire to do what is right, when we are at a loss to express it, or preserve it, or realize it."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

167) "In the material universe it is Spirit, and in Spirit it is the moral sphere, which are eminently the PRESENT centre in which life develops. It is into this flexible core of ourselves, accordingly, where divine grace mingles with the natural impulses of the Earth, that we have forcefully to direct the power of faith."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

168) "There is only ONE SINGLE CENTER in the universe…it impels the whole of creation along one and the same line, first towards the fullest development of consciousness, and later towards the highest degree of holiness."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

169) "The individual who reaches out from the seemingly separated center of being can, if he will, contact the cosmic center of life. From there he may reach out to the periphery of all reality as easily as the miracle of the radiant, expanding mind of God penetrates the universe with light."
     - Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet - Understanding Yourself: A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul-Awareness

170) "From what source will human individuals ultimately draw the desire to accept one another and draw one another towards joyful unity? There is only one conceivable source: a growing attraction to the centre of consciousness in which their fibres and their bundle must complete themselves by reuiniting."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Vision of the Past

171) "Is not this divine centre, required by the nature of things to justify our activity, precisely He whose influence makes itself positively felt in us by the tendency to greater cohesion, justice and brotherhood?"
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Vision of the Past

172) "No unit can finally find happiness except by reunion with the whole and the transcendent centre required to move that whole."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Vision of the Past

173) "When each man, by virtue of a conception of the world that demands only a minimum of metaphysics, and that is supported, moreover, by the greatest number of arguments from experience, will admit that his true being is not limited to the narrow boundaries of his limbs and his historical existence but that he forms part, body and soul, of the process that drives the universe, then he will understand that, in order to remain faithful to himself he must devote himself to the task demanded of him by life as to a personal and sacred duty. Then he will regain belief in the world, in a world whose totality cannot perish, and also faith in a supreme centre of personalization, concentration and cohesion, the only point at which the salvation of the universe can be conceived to take place."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Vision of the Past

174) "Humanity seems certainly to have reached the stage of its evolution in which it cannot from any viewpoint face the problems presented to it by the growth of its inner energy without defining for itself a center of love and adoration."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Vision of the Past

175) "Though the principle of the center is One, the patterns, the swirls and eddies of form and process which are generated by and through the center are infinite; and though infinite in number, the centers are essentially one, for each is the same irreducible point, the primary syllable, the word, the Logos, through which all is uttered."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

176) "The Vegetative [Living] Universe opens like a flower from the earth's center in which is Eternity." William Blake
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

177) "The center is the beginning of the Mandala as it is the beginning and origin of all form and of all processes, including the extensions of form into time."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

178) "In the Beginning was the Center: the center of the mind of God, the eternal Creator, the Dream of Brahman, the galaxies that swirl beyond the lenses of our great telescopes. In all of these the center is one, and in the center lies eternity."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

179) "The center principle manifests itself through man in the same ways as it does through a flower or a star; in it we may discover our cosmic commonality – our cosmic community."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

180) "This eternal NOW and the realization of one's center are coeval, simultaneous events."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

181) "Like ripples in a pond, each awareness-moment expands out from its own center, containing in its form-pattern the configuration of all phenomena in the universe, material and immaterial."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

182) "To be integrated, to be made whole, means to be able to maintain contact with one's center."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

183) "The circular sea with no outlet, which perpetually replenishes itself by means of a spring bubbling up in its centre, is to be found in [the writings of] Nicholas of Cusa as an allegory of God."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

184) "If man has alienated himself from the source, the center within, then it is the purpose of a Mandala ritual for our time to be used as a primal tool for investigating and opening that center, once again granting the individual an identification with the cosmic forces and their source."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

185) "The mandala is, above all, a map of the cosmos. It is the whole universe in its essential plan, in its process of emanation and of reabsorption…..the universe not only in its inert spatial expanse, but as temporal revolution and both as a vital process which develops from an essential principle and rotates round a central axis." G. Tucci
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

186) "Could men see clearly – as the seers have always seen – experience would be apprehended as an organic whole, continually proceeding from and returning to the one source – the center of being."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

187) "Go to the center and know the Whole. Follow this path."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

188) "From whichever point a Mandala is entered, a path opens that leads to the eternal center."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

189) "In Black Elk's vision, the hoop of his people will be reunited only when the tree of the center flowers once again. This is the vision of a Mandala of global consciousness."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

190) "The basic forces create and sustain each other through the mysterious power of the center. From this center flows the evolution of all phenomena in a symmetrically radiating manner. This is a cosmogenic process, which is beautifully described in the Great Treatise of 'The Book of Changes.'"
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

191) "Laurette Sejourne speaks of the Law of the Center which 'prevents the splitting asunder of opposing forces.' Cycles, whether pertaining to life and death, space and time, visible and invisible forces, are held together in concentric patterns. Understanding the Law of the Center as a basic principle of nature, men have been able to construct vast systems, and to perceive various levels of order throughout the universe."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

192) "The center is the nameless, the most supreme, the oldest, yet is ever-present and continually pours forth its energy – it is self-renewing."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

193) "Thirty-three centuries ago, Ikhnaton, the pharaoh of Egypt, described the universe as a giant egg, a great cell of being in which he conceived the nucleus as the source of that creative force which he acknowledged as the life energy of God."
     - Kuthumi and Djwal Kul - The Human Aura

194) "When we are acting from a centered place – the open heart – we can access our own inner wisdom and open to divine healing energy as well."
     - Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D. - Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self

195) "Man remains forever free at the centre."
     - Annie Besant - The Ancient Wisdom

196) "As a magnet has its magnetic field, an area within which all its forces play, larger or smaller according to its strength, so has every man a field of influence within which play the forces he emits, and these forces work in curves that return to their forthsender, that re-enter the centre whence they emerged."
     - Annie Besant - The Ancient Wisdom

197) "The Ultimate Reality is at once Absolute and Infinite….It can only be known through the sun of the Divine Self residing at the center of the human soul." Seyyed Hossein, Islamic scholar, 'Knowledge and the Sacred'
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

198) "Act from the center – which the poet T. S. Eliot called 'the still point.'"
     - Amit Goswami, Ph.D. - The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment

199) "Leibniz held with Bruno that each monadic center – whether an atom, a man, or a sun – is a mirror and replica of the entire cosmos, as well as the moving power in evolution." Editors
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

200) "Every movement that returns to its point of origin must adopt the form of a circle. Only circular movement is continuous and consistent. Every object of nature is, then, a circle, whose function and activity derive from its center point, which is the soul." Dr. Felix Marti-Ibanez, 'Centaur, Essays on the History of Medical Ideas'
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

201) "Deity and the cosmos may be likened to a circle or sphere whose circumference is nowhere – hence boundless – but those center is everywhere. And each monad is such a divine, immortal, preexistent center." Editors
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

202) "By going to my center, my central axis, I can experience the central axis, pole, or pillar of the world – the cosmic hub, the navel of the world (omphalos)."
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

203) "The tree of life symbolizes the interdimensional central axis, with its energy centers and branching channels, that is our connection with the realms of spirit and hence immortal life."
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

204) "In a sense each human being is the center of the universe, for God lives equally in all."
     - Irving S. Cooper - Reincarnation: A Hope of the World

205) "The source and center of all existence is pure spirit existing in all created things simultaneously." John Redtail Freesoul, 'The Native American Prayer Pipe: Ceremonial Object and Tool of Self-Realization'
     - Shirley Nicholson, Compiler - Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality

206) "There is always a centre – such as the sun with the planets, or the cell with its nucleus; that is, a point of power which gives life and energy to the whole of the structure."
     - H. K. Challoner - Regents of the Seven Spheres

207) "Each centre of the indwelling life draws to itself by its own mysterious individual magnetism what it needs for its expansion."
     - H. K. Challoner - Regents of the Seven Spheres

208) "Do all things as from a centre from which they are seen as one, as indeed they truly are. Thus will you give a new meaning to life. Above all things else this is the need of humanity."
     - Geoffrey Hodson - The Brotherhood of Angels & of Men

209) "Joy is the still point at the center of the dance."
     - Robert Ellwood - Finding Deep Joy

210) "Matter is immersed within the Center of Godhead."
     - William Samuel - The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics

211) "The Divine Child of us has knowledge of the center Ground of religion, philosophy, metaphysics and science – already knowing all that needs to be known to make it through time."
     - William Samuel - The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics

212) "The True Teacher is inside yourself at your very center."
     - William Samuel - The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics

213) "We never actually get away from the center and circumference where God put us."
     - William Samuel - The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics

214) "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.'"
     - Robert Macoy - A Dictionary of Freemasonry

215) "The center of unity is not material nor visible. It is an internal principle which dwells in all its parts, and binds them altogether in one harmonious whole."
     - Robert Macoy - A Dictionary of Freemasonry

216) "Since Deity is as a circle whose centre is everywhere, it follows that a divine centre, a vital and immortal principle, exists within ourselves."
     - W. L. Wilmshurst - The Meaning of Masonry

217) "The Divine Life and Will is the centre of the whole universe."
     - W. L. Wilmshurst - The Meaning of Masonry

218) "The Point within a Circle…is the Divine Spirit indwelling creation and abiding in the nature of man."
     - Arthur Edward Waite - A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

219) "What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': fear of pain, desire for pleasure; fear of loss; desire for gain; fear of blame, desire for praise; fear of disgrace; desire for fame." Joseph Campbell
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

220) "In a twelfth-century hermetic text known as 'The Book of the Twenty-Four Philosophers' there is a statement that has been quoted, through the centuries, by a number of Christian thinkers – among others, Alan of Lille (1128-1202), Nicholas Cusanus (1401-1464), Rabelais (1490?-1553), Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), and Pascal (1632-1662), as well as Voltaire (1694-1778); to wit: 'God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.'" Joseph Campbell
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

221) "Spirit may be defined as that which has its center in itself." Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

222) "A universe comes to birth from its center; it spreads out from a central point that is, as it were, its navel. It is in this way that, according to the Rig Veda (X, 149), the universe was born and developed from a core, a central point."
     - Mircea Eliade - The Sacred and the Profane, The Nature of Religion

223) "The symbolism of the center is the formative principle not only of countries, cities, temples, and palaces but also of the humblest human dwelling."
     - Mircea Eliade - The Sacred and the Profane, The Nature of Religion

224) "The closer one gets to realisation, the clearer becomes the concept that the point at the centre and the periphery are one."
     - Alice A. Bailey - Discipleship in the New Age

225) "Stay at the centre of the circle and let all things take their course." Lao-Tzu
     - Paul Roland - Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages

226) "Deity is the central and immortal germ of all that exists in the universe."
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled

227) "We will see how we are a tribe and a company, in circle after circle rippling out and intersecting. We will see how we are all entering each other – as gifts to each other, mirroring and completing each other: and how we are all unique angles on the centre."
     - Jay Ramsay - Alchemy, The Art of Transformation

228) "Mandalas have been used by many cultures to represent the creation of the universe. Carl Jung has theorized that mandalas represent centering, the unification of parts of the psyche."
     - Mike Samuels, M.D. and Nancy Samuels - Seeing With the Mind's Eye

229) "The mandala symbolizes the cosmos, and the center of the mandala represents the axis of the universe."
     - Mike Samuels, M.D. and Nancy Samuels - Seeing With the Mind's Eye

230) The center of the Cyclone, in the deepest analysis I have yet done, is the quiet peaceful creating meeting place for all of us, connected in the Cosmic Network of Essences."
     - John C. Lilly, M.D. - The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space

231) "Circular yantras appear in most spiritual and religious practice. A peek through to the collective cortex perhaps. From the sand paintings of the Navajo to the floor mosaics and dome designs of many churches, synagogues, mosques, and cathedrals."
     - Stephen Levine - Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey

232) "Through finding himself and understanding his own nature, man arrives at that centre within himself which is one with all that is."
     - Alice A. Bailey - From Intellect to Intuition

233) "At the center, at the Source of our being, we find all others – for our Source is also their Source. We find that all others are one with us in coming forth from creative love."
     - M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O. - Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

234) "There is a Center to the personality that includes the whole Self….This whole Self is in each of us as a potentiality and seeks to be realized in the life process."
     - John Sanford - The Kingdom Within, the Inner Meaning of Jesus' Sayings

235) "You are to know that your soul is the centre, habitation, and kingdom of God." Rev. Miguel de Molinos (ca. 1640-1697)
     - Mary Wilder Tileston, Compiler - Daily Strength for Daily Needs

236) “One can reach the center directly from any point of the compass.” C. G. Jung, ‘Approaching the Unconscious’
     - Carl Jung - Man and His Symbols

237) “All the radii of a circle are brought together in the unity of the center which contains all the straight lines brought together within itself. These are linked one to another because of this single point of origin and they are completely unified at this center.”
     - John Farina, Editor-in-Chief - Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works

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     - David Bohm - Dialogue - A Proposal

1) "Every moment of our human life is a moment of crisis; for at every moment we are called upon to make an all-important decision - to choose between the way that leads to death and spiritual darkness and the way that leads towards light and life."
     - Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy

2) "A man's being is his potential energy directed towards or away from God."
     - Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy

3) "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." Kahlil Gibran - Sand and Foam
     - Margaret Pepper, editor - Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations

4) "All heaven's glory is within, And so is hell's fierce burning. You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning." Angelus Silesius - The Book of Angelus Silesius
     - Margaret Pepper, editor - Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations

5) "A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy." Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward
     - Margaret Pepper, editor - Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations

6) "We can make up our minds whether our lives in this world shall wound like thorns and nettles, or be beautiful and fragrant like the lilies of the field." Fr Andrew SDC - Meditations for Every Day
     - Margaret Pepper, editor - Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations

7) "What is dark clings to what is light and so enhances the brightness of the latter. A luminous thing giving out light must have within itself something that perseveres; otherwise it will in time burn itself out. Everything that gives light is dependent on something to which it clings, in order that it may continue to shine. "Thus the sun and moon cling to heaven, and grain, grass, and trees cling to the earth. So too the twofold clarity of the dedicated man clings to what is right and thereby can shape the world. Human life on earth is conditioned and unfree, and when man recognizes this limitation and makes himself dependent upon the harmonious and beneficent forces of the cosmos, he achieves success. The cow is the symbol of extreme docility. By cultivating in himself an attitude of compliance and voluntary dependence, man acquires clarity without sharpness and finds his place in the world." -- Chapter 30
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - I Ching or The Book of Changes

8) "Fear can keep us from innovating, risking, creating. Yet we settle for only the illusion of safety. We prolong our discomfort, and we are troubled in our sleep. On one level we know that we are in danger, avoiding change in a changing world. The only strategies imaginative enough to rescue us will come from listening to our "other" consciousness ... "
     - Marilyn Ferguson - The Aquarian Conspiracy

9) " ... there may be oscillation between exhilaration and loneliness because Fear centers on the disruptive effect the transformative process may be having on the old itinerary: career direction, relationships, goals, and values ... there is a new self in an old culture."
     - Marilyn Ferguson - The Aquarian Conspiracy

10) " ... The revolution is a movement to bring man's thinking, his society, and his life to terms with the revolution of technology and science that has already taken place. Technology demands of man a new mind - a higher, transcendent reason - if it is to be controlled and guided rather than to become an unthinking monster. It demands a new individual responsibility for values, or it will dictate all values. And it promises a life that is more liberated and more beautiful than any man has known, if man has the courage and the imagination to seize that life. The transformation that is coming invites us to re-examine our own lives. It confronts us with a personal and individual choice: are we satisfied with how we have lived; how would we live differently? It offers us a recovery of self. It faces us with the fact that this choice cannot be evaded, for as the freedom is already there, so must the responsibility be there. At the heart of everything is what we shall call a change of consciousness. This means a "new head" - a new way of living - a new man. ... "
     - Charles Reich - Greening of America

11) " ... if consciousnes is not a set of values or opinions, but a total understanding of reality, then there can be no return, for the experience is now part of the individual. Once an individual has experienced good relationships with others, relationships with openness, honesty, sharing and love,he will no longer be able to accept or tolerate relationships where nothing is happening. Once a person has experienced a true sense of wonder in nature, a participation in the sea or mountains, he will not go back to travel agent tours or mechanized camping. The new reality is just too much better."
     - Charles Reich - Greening of America

12) " ... each individual who wants to see change come about has a wide choice of personal means. He can concern himself only with his own life. He can try to influence the "consumer" way of life and values. He can take a job or profession and try to bring about change from there. Or, in a position such as that occupied by a lawyer, he may attempt the complex and subtle task of introducing new consciousness directly into existing structure. Each individual must choose and experiment. What is common to all the choices is this: none involve assults on the machine from "outside." All depend upon changing consciousness. All require, as their one indispensable element, changing one's own life first."
     - Charles Reich - Greening of America

13) Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes a man has joy. Often a man finds himself weighing the choice between various kinds of pleasures, and so long as he has not decided which kind he will choose, the higher or the lower, he has no inner peace. Only when he clearly recognizes that passion brings suffering, can he make up his mind to turn away from the lower pleasures and to strive for the higher. Once this decision is sealed, he finds true joy and peace, and inner conflict is overcome. -- Chapter 58 Line 4
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - I Ching or The Book of Changes

14) True joy must spring from within. But if one is empty within and wholly given over to the world, idle pleasures come streaming in from without. This is what many people welcome as diversion. Those who lack inner stability and therefore need amusement, will always find opportunity of indulgence. They attract external pleasures by the emptiness of their natures. Thus they lose themselves more and more, which of course has bad results. -- Chapter 58 Line 3
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - I Ching or The Book of Changes

15) " ... If we try to live as closed systems, we are doomed to regress. If we enlarge our awareness, admit new information, and take advantage of the brain's brilliant capacity to integrate and reconcile, we can leap forward ... "
     - Marilyn Ferguson - The Aquarian Conspiracy

16) "Women are now learning to use their power openly, she said, exercising what Rollo May called "integrative power" rather than the coy or manipulative ways of the past." (He said:) 'Integrative power recognizes that men as well as women have been the victims of history and narrowly defined roles … It is a caring form of power ¾ power aligned with love. Work for social justice, for peace, for overcoming poverty and alienation, for building a more truly humanizing future … is not even possible without a combination of love and power. Love itself is not possible without power or self-assertion. And power without love is easily reduced to manipulation and exploitation. We cannot make somebody else's contribution to the ongoing shaping of history. Nor can anyone else make ours. Each of us is here for a purpose, each life has significance and meaning. This meaning -- whatever it is -- cannot be realized if we abdicate our powers … The values that have been labeled feminine -- compassion, cooperation, patience -- are very badly needed in giving birth to and nurturing a new era in human history.' "
     - Marilyn Ferguson - The Aquarian Conspiracy

17) " ... the crucial question is, how can I eliminate action rooted in desire and cultivate action done without desire? The classical Hindu answer is simply to do what is expected of me according to my dharma, my place and role in the eternal order of things. If my karma has caused me to be born as a warrior, I should go about my duty of protecting people, not out of desire or hope for reward, but simply because it's my dharma. If I'm a woman, I should be a good woman; if a slave, I should simply serve others without desiring to be something else. The whole system worked out in the Law-code of Manu ... provides guidance for the path of action: caste, sex, and stage of life make up the essential elements of my dharma, and by performing that role properly, without desiring some reward, I move forward on the path of transformation."
     - Theodore M. Ludwig - The Sacred Paths - Second Edition

18) The Tahirih Path, point No. 1 (This path needs no formalization as it follows natural cosmic order.) 1 The coming of the Cycle of Balance and Harmony Individual application: I have been born into a time of transformation where separation is fast losing being the paradigm for humanity. As I understand that separation is not the ultimate truth and that connection with all that is, is the reality, it becomes ever more necessary to come into balance physically, mentally, and spiritually for my own advancement so that I may more readily plug into the divine energy. As an individual, when my male and female aspects are more balanced in my thoughts, the interplay between the two within myself allows me to reach a more peaceful frame of mind as I can understand the variety of characteristics in both, use the characteristics that best serve the situation, and no longer be in direct conflict with the duality and separation resulting from being out of balance. Thus my existence is more harmonious. Bringing my thinking and thoughts into balance in turn bring my physical body into balance by producing the hormones that are necessary for healthful happy responses to life. When my body and mind come into balance I can connect more easily with the Cosmic Spiritual Laws and then I personally become more attuned to those laws and realize my harmony and connection with the whole of creation. Collective Outcomes: Collectively the world is entirely out of balance in that it has been predominately the male patriarchal effects that are now dominant and the feminine attributes and spirit long forgotten. Almost everything that is being developed is being done through force which causes a natural imbalance: thus creating the weak and the strong; the poor and the rich; the slave and the ruler; the uneducated and the educated; and so forth. When society is more balanced the extremes resulting from force will be lessened whereby people will be able to work more harmoniously on the city, state, nation, and world arenas. Without the feminine spirit operating equally in the world a continuous state of war and strife will prevail. When society is in balance force will start to naturally change to operate through magnetic attraction which will create dramatic changes in the socio-political environment. Therefore, all creations will be the outcome of working on the 'love' vibration and in order to interact in the society the individual will have to be using this vibration to exist within it. This natural mandatory level of interaction almost entirely rules out crime and dysfunction.
     - Starr* Saffa - Tahirih TheAlogy: Female Cosmic Christ Spirit of the Age

19) "The warring segments of a personality can only be unified by a common purpose which will enlist the sympathetic cooperation of all. Right motive can be made to unite all the diversified faculties and members of the nature and directionalize them toward achievement of the greatest good. The consciousness that steadfastly contemplates only good through all its diversified perceptions may be said to have united its various parts into a pattern worthy to be designated beautiful."
     - Manly P. Hall - Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

20) "Scientists recognise the truth that atoms themselves possess quality, show symptoms of mind or intelligence, and can discriminate, select, and choose."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Consciousness of the Atom

21) "In every event and every limitation we have a choice, and to choose is to create. We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good. We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth."
     - Helen Keller - Light In My Darkness

22) "Life is a process of choices, one after another. At each point there is a progression choice and a regression choice. There may be a movement toward defense, toward safety, toward being afraid; but over on the other side, there is the growth choice. To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day toward self-actualization. Self-actualization is an ongoing process; it means making each of the many single choices about whether to lie or be honest, whether to steal or not to steal at a particular point, and it means to make each of these choices as a growth choice. This is movement toward self-actualization."
     - Abraham Maslow - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

23) "Truly I have looked into the heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence. What if all dark, discouraging moods come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? I know the desert leads to God as surely as the fruitful orchards. I use my will, choose life and reject its opposite, nothingness."
     - Helen Keller - My Religion

24) "One need remain in hell no longer than one chooses to; we can rise to any heaven we ourselves choose; and when we choose so to rise, all the higher powers of the Universe combine to help us heavenward." R. W. Trine, 'In Tune with the Infinite'
     - William James - Varieties of Religious Experience, The

25) "At times it may appear we are chosen by our thoughts or emotions, but this is only because we have permitted the mind or the heart to move without conscious direction, a choice which can be reversed whenever we decide to determine consciously what thoughts will occupy the mind or what feelings will be harbored in the heart." 'Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony', Quest 1984, foreword
     - Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors - Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony

26) "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is." Albert Einstein
     - Sophy Burnham - Ecstatic Journey, The Transforming Power of Mystical Experience

27) "God has given us the freedom to think what we choose and the creative capacity to bring forth worlds accordingly. What we think, we experience." Marianne Williamson, Foreword
     - Michael A. Maday, editor - New Thoughts for a New Millennium

28) "We're here to learn to love more fully, to be God or angels in disguise for one another, to show our love, to show our compassion, to be active in creation. That is the reason and the meaning behind our lives. Each of us has a choice about how to love the world in our unique way." Bernie Siegel, M.D., 'Heart Lessons'
     - Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, editors - Handbook for the Heart, Original Writings on Love

29) "Every situation represents a choice: do we prefer to stay with ego-based patterns of thought and behavior, or do we choose to play life in a higher, more loving way? Will we tread the path of limitation and fear, though that path has grown painful and boring and old, or do we choose to give birth to a higher mode of expression?"
     - Marianne Williamson - The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

30) "We can live in fear, or we can live in love. And every moment, we decide. The greatest power God has given us to change the world is the power to change our thoughts about the world. And as we do, the world transforms."
     - Marianne Williamson - The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

31) "No matter what the circumstance, we can choose to infuse it with light."
     - Marianne Williamson - Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

32) "A life of magnitude does not just happen; it is consciously chosen. Living is an endlessly creative process in which we work on achieving the life we want through our willingness to be who we would like to be."
     - Marianne Williamson - Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

33) "I am always at choice: experience the miracles of life as they come to me or blind myself to them, with the audacity to believe that God ever, ever, ever did not know what He was doing."
     - Marianne Williamson - Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

34) "We are continually engaged in the evolution of self and world – and we have the power to choose, moment by moment, between that which gives life and that which deals death."
     - Parker J. Palmer - A Hidden Wholeness, The Journey Toward An Undivided Life

35) "We get in life that which we focus on. Continual focus on darkness leads us, as individuals and as a society, further into darkness. Focus on the light brings us into the light."
     - Marianne Williamson - A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

36) "The still, small Voice for God is not drowned out by all the ego's raucous screams and senseless ravings to those who want to hear It. Perception is a choice….For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are."
     - Helen Schucman and William Thetford - A Course in Miracles

37) "This is the law from the beginning, that he who would have virtue must choose it." Clement of Alexandria, 'On Spiritual Perfection'
     - John E. L. Oulton, editor - Alexandrian Christianity

38) "Perception is a choice of what you want yourself to be."
     - Helen Schucman and William Thetford - A Course in Miracles

39) "The way out of fear is simple. It is to remember – remember what it is you want to feel, what you want to have running through your mind, your emotions and your body. From that level the choices become very simple. Choose what you can do to let those around you sense their innocence, their purity and their beauty, and those very things will grow in you."
     - Mary-Margaret Moore - Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream

40) "You feed something every time you think, so you must decide what it will be. Do you want to feed your separation, your alienation? It will increase. Do you want to feed your Wholeness? It, too, will increase. You are the way to Truth and Light. You are the way! Gather up your awareness and place it where you wish it to be and it will stay there, fixed, until you move it again. It's really up to you."
     - Mary-Margaret Moore - Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream

41) "You are a member of the species. Any choice you make privately affects it biologically and psychically."
     - Jane Roberts - The 'Unknown' Reality

42) "Both sinning and righteous are so by their own choice." Cyril of Jerusalem, 'The Catechetical Lectures'
     - William Telfer, Editor - Cyril of Jerusalem and Nemesius of Emesa

43) "No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and every one the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides." Hasidic saying
     - Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal - As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life

44) "We can listen to the voice of the Earth as she shakes and sings her song expressing her tiredness. She is calling us to attention, to be alert, to recognize that now is the time to transform selfish thought and action to compassionate caretaking. Do we want a world of peace and harmony? Are we willing to make that peace within ourselves? Will we call it forth? It is your choice. Your thought and action make a difference." Dhyani Ywahoo, Cherokee teacher
     - Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal - As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life

45) "Creative choice is your birthright. Please own it." John Bradshaw
     - Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal - As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life

46) "Your decisions come from your beliefs as certainly as all creation rose in His Mind because of what He knows."
     - Jim Willis - The Religion Book, The Encyclopedia of Places, Prophets, Saints, and Seers

47) "We know we can change ourselves when we realize that we are not dependent on how we feel, nor on how others feel about us, nor on what the situation is around us. The values we hold, the choices we make within ourselves and for ourselves remain our prerogative."
     - Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson - Dancing in the Flames, The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness

48) "And after death...you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and also touches thousands of lives." Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
     - Eliot Jay Rosen, editor - Experiencing the Soul

49) "(A) baby put into free-choice situations, with plenty of choice, tends to choose its way toward growth rather than toward regression. In the same way, a plant or an animal selects from the millions of objects in the world those which are 'right' for its nature."
     - Abraham Maslow - Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences

50) "We are drenched in awareness, in experience, and have no choice but to go with it on some profound level."
     - Ken Wilber - Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

51) "As a matter of fact, the factor of conscious choice, of deliberate decision is the constituent element of human wholeness." Gerhard Adler (b. 1904), English Jungian analyst, 'Studies in Analytical Psychology'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

52) "Perception rests on choosing."
     - Helen Schucman and William Thetford - A Course in Miracles

53) "The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." Anne Frank (1929-1945), 'The Diary of a Young Girl', July 15, 1944
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

54) "Here are four words to memorize: We are all One. Model that when you make your next choices and decisions."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

55) "Please, decide that you are going to be one of those who will do what you can do, every moment, every day, to free yourself and those around you from the oppression of a belief in an angry, punishing, vengeful, and violent God….Do this in whatever way presents itself to you. Out of your intention and determination those opportunities will come to you in the day-to-day living of your life. Open your eyes and you'll see them all around you."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

56) "Your heart beats on its own. Your lungs take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide without your willful assistance. Nature puts you to sleep and wakes you up. Why shouldn't life-supporting choices flow just as freely from a mind that's attuned to the evolutionary currents of the cosmos?"
     - Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D. - Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide

57) "Choices send ripples throughout the universe, altering the world for better or for worse. Since we're already changing the world with every action we take, why not do it with the highest intention?"
     - Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D. - Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide

58) "Undoing the damage we have inflicted upon one another through the centuries begins with each of us choosing the good, the kind and the compassionate at every turn."
     - Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D. - Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide

59) "In the end, love and fear are the only feelings there are. Life brings you a constant stream of opportunities to choose between the two."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - What God Wants

60) "From the perspective of wholeness all space is sacred: it is up to each of us whether or not this is realized. This is the real meaning of RESPONSE-ability." Keith Critchlow, 'Twelve Criteria for Sacred Architecture'
     - Christopher Bamford, editor - Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science

61) "Choice constitutes growth and differentiation of consciousness. Hence an old Jewish saying, 'Man was born for the sake of choice'. Ample evidence testifies that this dynamic is basic to life, even on the biological level."
     - Edward C. Whitmont, MD - Return of the Goddess

62) "Human individuals possess the momentous power of choosing either selflessness and union with God, or the intensification of separate selfhood."
     - Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy

63) "Jesus replied,…Everyone has the command of his own tongue, to speak both good and bad, let him look to it." The Gospel of Nicodemus, ch. 2, v. 5
     - various - The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden

64) "Intelligence means being able to see the many levels of the whole in space and time and taking them into account when making a decision... It's all about context. The larger your context is, the more intelligent your decisions will be. It's about being able to think at different levels of reality at the same time." - Elisabet Sahtouris
     - Alan Briskin Tom Callanan Sheryl Erickson Carol Fr - Collective Wisdom Initiative

65) "Our works are subject to our own choice and power, to do right or wrong in the works of our hands." Psalms of Solomon, Psalm IX
     - various - The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden

66) "As God freely chooes to create, so humans govern themselves by their own deliberate choice."
     - Thomas P. Rausch, editor - Introduction to Theology

67) "One's character is a matter of self-determination. It is a matter of the form that the person gives to his or her attributes of both nature and nurture."
     - Thomas P. Rausch, editor - Introduction to Theology

68) "We choose the god-like splendor Of the best-beloved Sun To inspire us; May the shining Sun Brighten your life!" Ramayanna
     - David Wolfe - The Sunfood Diet Success System

69) "The ancients did not doubt that men could choose and, through choice, exercise some control over the disposition of their lives. Tacitus, for example…claims that 'the wisest of the ancients leave us the capacity of choosing our life."
     - Mortimer J. Adler, editor - The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1

70) "In all of us…the choice upon which all depends is between committing ourselves to the Light Which shines in darkness or turning away from it."
     - Hugh I'anson Fausset - The Flame and the Light

71) Through receiving the blessed vibrations now available your body and mind have the opportunity to come into homeostasis. Use this condition as a springboard for your soul as a homecoming to the Whole where there is complete stillness (meditate). A place where there are no vibrations, no waves, no time, but yet a reunion with All that Is. Having this experience you will have first hand knowledge of Wholeness and better realize how this world is only story created by those who imagine and perpetrate separation. Become awake and free - or at least become the designer of your own reality. Ya Tahirih! - Ya Qurratu'l-Ayn! May the Source be with you all ways! Joyous Journey -
     - Starr* Saffa - Global Resonance Network

72) "Optimism is a choice. A future can be built on optimism but not on its opposite."
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

73) "We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children." Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American activist
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

74) "The shape things take is not within your power; the motives of your actions are." Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian spiritual master
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

75) "The career of a soul as it threads its course…is guided by its choices, which are controlled by what the soul wants and wills at each stage of the journey."
     - Huston Smith - The World's Religions

76) "And who do I now choose to be? This is the only question that matters, and this is what your soul is using your life to decide, every moment."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Communion with God

77) "We are inclined to be dismayed and afraid of what is going on around us today….But we feel that if the present is properly understood,…there is much ground for hope. It will depend on how intelligently we, as human minds, using all the functions of thought, feeling and the impulse to act, learn to cooperate with the universal Mind out of which we and the whole creation are made. We have the means to do this; we have the guide lines to start us off. If we can see them and make use of them as we should, the future is secure. The choice is ours."
     - Laurence and Phoebe Bendit - The Transforming Mind

78) "Choice – self-conscious choice – is a specifically human capability; to abrovate our right to choose between alternatives, even the right to say no to all choices, is to forfeit some part of our humanity." Joy Mills, foreword
     - Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors - Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony

79) "Victor Frankl, in 'Man in Search of Meaning', points out that the inalienable freedom to choose one's attitude of mind persists, even in a Nazi prison camp." Laurence J. Bendit, 'Karma and Cosmos'
     - Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors - Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony

80) "At this cross-roads where we cannot stop and wait because we are pushed forward by life – and obliged to adopt an attitude if we want to go on doing anything whatsoever – what are we going freely to decide?"
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Phenomenon of Man

81) "The day is not far distant when humanity will realise that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Divine Milieu

82) "We can choose to develop awareness,…. which allows us to be responsible agents instead of helpless victims." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun
     - Winifred Gallagher - Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning

83) "Because we have free will, we can choose to behave in ways that either enhance or hinder the movement of creation toward perfect completion in the divine."
     - Winifred Gallagher - Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning

84) "You can choose to think positive thoughts or negative thoughts. You can choose to feel happy or sad. You can choose to see the positive in a negative situation, or the negative in a positive situation."
     - Rabbi Shoni Labowitz - Miraculous Living

85) "All that you have within you, all that your heart desires, all that your Nature so specially fits you for – that or the counterpart of it waits embedded in the great Whole for you. It will surely come to you." Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), English author, 'Towards Democracy'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

86) "The disposition which makes us capable of receiving divine blessings depends on ourselves." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Third Century of Various Texts'
     - various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain - The Philokalia, volume 2

87) "The cosmos we live in is the one we choose to make. The worlds we live in ARE the worlds we choose to give birth to. Our soul is, as Meister Eckhart says, the world."
     - Matthew Fox - The Coming of the Cosmic Christ

88) "The exterior acts of virtue proceed from interior choice." Thomas Aquinas, In Ethics II, L. 5, p. 136
     - Matthew Fox - Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality

89) "Choice seems to lie at the core of the creative process." Matthew Fox
     - Matthew Fox - Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality

90) "We choose our lives, we make them, we cocreate them, we give birth to them by the 'inward' choices we make." Matthew Fox
     - Matthew Fox - Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality

91) "Each choice against good is a choice against God and His Laws of Love."
     - Patricia Devlin - The Light of Love

92) "Each of you can be a pure image [ of God]. You become purer as your love grows, and your love grows as you choose to love. You decide."
     - Patricia Devlin - The Light of Love

93) "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot
     - Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors - Living Quotations for Christians

94) "We always have a choice. We can let the garden of our life grow wild and unattended until it fills with weeds, or we can take up the proper tools and tend to our garden until we create a place of unimaginable loveliness."
     - John Marks Templeton - Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles

95) "Of all the powers that you possess as a human being, the greatest power is the power to CHOOSE. What you are right now is the sum total of the choices you have made in your life. The power to choose is also a power, or ability, to create WHO YOU ARE!"
     - John Marks Templeton - Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles

96) "We shall be saved by an option that has chosen the whole."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Science and Christ

97) "Man must choose daily whether to self-destruct or to self-exalt and whether to destruct or to exalt the God within."
     - Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet - Understanding Yourself: A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul-Awareness

98) "Mankind will always have the choice and the challenge to express its highest self or fall prey to its darker desires."
     - Elizabeth Clare Prophet - Saint Germain's Prophecy for the New Millennium

99) "Yes, today it is your choices – the choices that you make, beloved – that will determine the course of this civilization."
     - Elizabeth Clare Prophet - Saint Germain's Prophecy for the New Millennium

100) "The future is truly in our hands. Our choices now and in the next few years will make all the difference for generations to come."
     - Elizabeth Clare Prophet - Saint Germain's Prophecy for the New Millennium

101) "We choose. We choose what carries energy in our lives. We choose what we pay attention to. We choose what mental and emotional impulses and responses drive us."
     - Christina Baldwin - Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

102) "Masala, the messenger of the Hopi people, prophesied that there would come an eleventh hour when all people would have to choose to remain divided and destroy themselves and the planet, or to reunite and restore the balance of life. Certainly we are at that hour."
     - Christina Baldwin - Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

103) "It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom….I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension." Freeman Dyson, physicist, recipient of the Templeton Prize
     - Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D. - The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

104) "Men and women have the choice as to what they will do with this power within them. Shall they exhaust it in the various self-indulgences, both mental and physical, or shall they use it to become creative in the realms of the spirit and higher mind – a force for good? It is this tremendous choice which every human being has to face."
     - Vera Stanley Alder - The Finding of the Third Eye

105) "As Carlos Castaneda's guru, Don Juan, said, choose the path of your heart, because that is the path that will transform you."
     - Amit Goswami, Ph.D. - The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment

106) "Humanity is truly at an evolutionary choice point: we know in our hearts that either we are going to have to grow up very fast, change ourselves in radical ways, or we will destroy major portions of the biosphere and perhaps ourselves as well. We have a desperate need for greater awareness of our own inner dynamics and processes if we are going to survive the present global crisis."
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

107) "We are not the victims or the effects of uncontrollable external circumstances: the journey of transformation is within us. Therefore, we choose the destination."
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

108) "Every second offers a choice either to channel grace or to withhold it."
     - Caroline Myss - Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

109) "Of all the many gifts in life that bring joy and grace to the soul, among the greatest is the choice to see the people in our lives as gifts from God."
     - Caroline Myss - Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

110) "The choices you make are always and only motivated by either faith or fear."
     - Caroline Myss - Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

111) "For all that the Divine provides, you have complete choice about whether to view the provisions as blessings or as burdens."
     - Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

112) "What we need to do is make conscious choices and take responsibility for ourselves, including our thoughts and attitudes."
     - Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

113) "If we become aware that forgiveness is the higher path than vengeance, a part of our psyche and soul becomes relentless in reminding us of that truth whenever we must choose forgiveness or vengeance. When it comes to soul knowledge, 'We are born already knowing what we need to know.'"
     - Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

114) "Violence is not inevitable. Peace is there for us in every moment. It is our choice."
     - Thich Nhat Hanh - Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World

115) "You have to CHOOSE to make the best of a difficult situation and to trust that a reason beyond your understanding is always at work."
     - Caroline Myss - Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles

116) "Choose to seek the spiritual presence in every moment and situation of your life. Even the smallest positive action can help someone heal."
     - Caroline Myss - Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles

117) "Managing our power of choice is the Divine challenge, the sacred contract that we are here to fulfill. It begins with choosing what our thoughts and attitudes will be."
     - Caroline Myss - Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

118) "All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself."
     - Caroline Myss - Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

119) "The major spiritual traditions are formed around one essential lesson: Make your choices wisely, because each choice you make is a creative act of spiritual power for which you are held responsible."
     - Caroline Myss - Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

120) "The sacred truth is that All Is One….It carries the message that we are connected to all of life and that every choice we make and every belief we hold exerts influence upon the whole of life."
     - Caroline Myss - Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

121) "Every choice we make, every thought and feeling we have, is an act of power that has biological, environmental, social, personal, and global consequences."
     - Caroline Myss - Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

122) "Our faith and our power of choice are, in fact, the power of creation itself. We are the vessels through which energy becomes matter in this life."
     - Caroline Myss - Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

123) "Increasingly, we need to make our decisions from the larger perspective provided by serving the One Life." William Metzger, 'Choosing: Karma & Kharma in the 21st Century'
     - V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors - Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony

124) "Humankind is on the move, emerging from a chain reaction of cause and effect that stretches back for billions of years. Now this species has the power to affect its own evolution by conscious choice….the capacity to be responsible, the will to do right when to do so is required to survive." Anatoly Gromyko and Martin Hellman, 'Breakthrough'
     - V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors - Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony

125) "Our freedom is so much greater than we have comprehended. We can learn to shift from reality to reality, choosing the one that is most relevant to our needs and purposes at the moment and use our new approach…to nourish our being, love, cherish, and garden ourselves and each other, be at home in our universes, and help save ourselves and the planet." Dr. Lawrence LeShan, 'Alternate Realities'
     - Shirley Nicholson, Compiler - Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality

126) "You may, as the free shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer. It will be in your power to descend to the lower, brutish forms of life; you will be able, through your own decision, to rise again to the superior orders whose life is divine." Pico della Mirandola, 'Oration on the Dignity of Man'
     - Joe Fisher - The Case for Reincarnation

127) "Because we can choose our inner feelings and thoughts, we have the possibility of self-control and self-direction. This gives us some control over our environment and our world. Our evolution is now self-induced, through our own decisions and efforts. Although the full development of self-consciousness and choice is not yet apparent, we are capable to some extent of choosing what we wish to express and be and what our world will be."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

128) "Man has the privilege and possesses the possibilities of choosing the good."
     - Zolar - Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge

129) "As each person moves through each day, he must realize he is choosing not only his course but also the course of his planet."
     - Meredith L. Young - Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era

130) "Choices, there always seem to be choices. Life is indeed a series of unending choices, all of which more finely tune one's path."
     - Meredith L. Young - Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era

131) "When you suffer in mind or body, the road forks. You can go the route of feeling sorry for yourself, dwelling on your pain and the unfairness of a life which dealt you that card…or you can determine to let this experience open you to learning more about human life in all its dimensions."
     - Robert Ellwood - Finding Deep Joy

132) "We can know more of our inner subtle states of consciousness. We can think and understand. We can love those who come to us, and we can delight in deep joy. All this comes from choosing the right fork in the road."
     - Robert Ellwood - Finding Deep Joy

133) "Every decision you make, you choose whether you make it for the small self or whether you seek divine guidance and follow that."
     - The Findhorn Community - The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation

134) "Man has freedom of choice and thus the power to create."
     - The Findhorn Community - The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation

135) "As human beings, we can choose to see each element of creation as separate. Or we can choose to see the one life that is within them all."
     - The Findhorn Community - The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation

136) "Developed in one's own unique way by each individual who undertakes to do so, the thinking capacity can become reliable intuition, allowing one to find the motivation for what one 'must' do and to choose it freely. In such choices, individuality and cognition unite to produce freedom, freely undertaken actions that are both fully individual and socially constructive." Gertrude Reif Hughes, Introduction
     - Rudolf Steiner - Intuitive Thinking As A Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom

137) "Humanity's destiny is to fulfill the function of the World Savior. Think about the implications of that! Humanity must save itself! Humanity must save itself, must choose to manifest its own wholeness, its groupness, before it can save the world." Frances Adams Moore, 'Group Life – a New Age Reality'
     - Alan Oken - Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self

138) "As the Christ Light says, we may choose Life and live more abundantly, or we may choose death."
     - William Samuel - The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics

139) "Help me, O God, to choose the right way; that I may ever be a channel of blessings to others." Edgar Cayce
     - Robert W. Krajenke - A Million Years to the Promised Land

140) "We can choose to live in joy."
     - Diane K. Osbon, editor - A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

141) "At any given moment you can choose to grow where you are planted. You can yield to the subtle inclination that tugs at your heart to open yourself to the presence of God that is always there."
     - James Finley - Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God

142) "You can always choose to open yourself, in the midst of a thousand graces and setbacks, to the oneness with God that is the reality of all that is real."
     - James Finley - Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God

143) "Each of us daily makes the choice moment by moment for love or for fear, to do good or to do evil, to try to seek for wisdom or to remain in ignorance." Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
     - Rex Hauck, editor - Angels: The Mysterious Messengers

144) "Are we contributing to a finer spiritual body of light for our planet, or are we contributing to a body of darkness? It is our choice." K. Martin-Kuri
     - Rex Hauck, editor - Angels: The Mysterious Messengers

145) "If we, as human beings, start to make a personal choice to make things better, to sacrifice instead of hurt, then the light will get so bright that the dark won't have a lot of room to exist." Terry Lynn Taylor
     - Rex Hauck, editor - Angels: The Mysterious Messengers

146) "To create meaning in our lives, we have to go back to basics….It's morality. It's doing the right thing. It's choosing the right way to be for the good of the whole." Terry Lynn Taylor
     - Rex Hauck, editor - Angels: The Mysterious Messengers

147) "There are one or two ways to respond to the injustice of life. You can whine and complain about the injustice of it all, the fact that I wasn't the privileged one. Or you can see through the eyes of faith that every adverse circumstance is an opportunity to see God work out his ultimate desire for wholeness and reconciliation in your life." Eugene Rivers III, Co-founder of Azusa Christian Community
     - Bill Moyers - Genesis: A Living Conversation

148) "God gives us a realm of responsibility and moral freedom. We must make our choices and live with the consequences. That's how God teaches." Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Founder of Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
     - Bill Moyers - Genesis: A Living Conversation

149) "Consciousness corresponds exactly to the living being's power of choice; it is coextensive with the fringe of possible action that surrounds the real action; consciousness is synonymous with invention and with freedom." Henri Bergson (1859-1941), professor at College de France
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

150) "The consciousness of mankind is being prepared for great leaps and discoveries – in a gentle way wherever possible…God is giving man a great change…..Now man must choose." Mother Meera (b. 1960)
     - Paul Roland - Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages

151) "Somewhere within us, no matter how lost or confused we might be at any point in life, there is something within which has foresight and resources which are often hidden from consciousness but which can divine what direction to take and what choices to make."
     - Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene - The Mythic Tarot

152) "Polarity is a play of opposites which forces man to make a choice in his acting, handling and attitude. He may emphasize either the negative aspect and know pain or the positive and live above pain."
     - Gladys V. Jones - The Flowering Tree

153) "We must regain our respect for our uniqueness of mind and power of will so that we may utilize them to aid us in examining and selecting the most sound and growth-producing alternatives among the many choices the future will offer."
     - Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D. - Personhood: The Art of Being Fully Human

154) "The choices are ours to make. As Nikos Kazantzakas has boldly suggested, 'We have our brush and colors – paint Paradise, and in we go.'"
     - Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D. - Personhood: The Art of Being Fully Human

155) "Man is free, for he is in the image of divine liberty; and that is why he has the power to choose." Paul Evdokimov, Russian Orthodox theologian
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

156) "The greatest thing about us is our freedom, or power to choose, to love."
     - M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O. - Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

157) "In the heart, heaven and hell are decided."
     - Peter Kreeft - Heaven, The Heart's Deepest Longing

158) "Life is a choice, and who we demonstrate ourselves to be is who we choose to be."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Questions and Answers on Conversations With God

159) “Free choice is what constitutes fundamental human freedom.”
     - Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M. - Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings

160) “Free choice constitutes the essence of our being made in the image of God.”
     - Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M. - Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings

161) “God creates us with the gift of free choice.”
     - Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M. - Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings

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     - David Bohm - Dialogue - A Proposal

1) Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
     - John Neihardt - Black Elk Speaks

2) This center which is here, but which we know is really everywhere, is Wakan-Tanka. All the things of the universe are joined with you who smoke the pipe — All send their voices to Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit. When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.
     - John Neihardt - Black Elk Speaks

3) Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop.
     - John Neihardt - Black Elk Speaks

4) Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
     - John Neihardt - Black Elk Speaks

5) To the center of the world you have taken me and showed the goodness and the beauty and the strangeness of the greening earth, the only mother— and there the spirit shapes of things, as they should be, you have shown to me and I have seen. At the center of this sacred hoop, you have said that I should make the tree to bloom. With tears running, O Great Spirit, Great Spirit, my Grandfather— with running tears I must say now that the tree has never bloomed. A pitiful old man, you see me here, and I have fallen away and have done nothing. Here at the center of the world, where you took me when I was young and taught me; here, old, I stand, and the tree is withered, Grandfather, my Grandfather! Again, and maybe the last time on this earth, I recall the great vision you sent me. It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds. Hear me, not for myself, but for my people; I am old. Hear me that they may once more go back into the sacred hoop and find the good red road, the shielding tree!
     - John Neihardt - Black Elk Speaks

6) "God fashioned the sphere of light round himself. 'God is an intelligible sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere'(cf. St. Bonaventure, Itinerarium, 5). The point symbolizes light and fire, also the Godhead in so far as light is an 'image of God' or an 'exemplar of the Deity.' This spherical light modelled on the point is also the shining or illuminating body that dwells in the heart of man."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

7) "Never during its pilgrimage is the spirit of man completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman – the self-luminous abiding point, boundless as the sky, indivisible, absolute, the only reality." Huston Smith, 'Karma, Rebirth and Freewill'
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

8) "There dwells in the heart of every creature the Master who by his magic power causes all things and creatures to revolve mounted upon the universal wheel of time. Take sanctuary with him with all thy soul." Krishna, 'The Bhagavad Gita'
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

9) "Humanity returns by a sort of circulatory movement to its first beginning, being united by the work of the Incarnation to the very origin of all things." Thomas Aquinas, 'A Compendium of Theology', I, 201
     - Matthew Fox - Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality

10) "In the circle, which comprehends in itself the beginning and the end, we have the figure of true being; and circular motion is the only enduring form of motion. From this Spirit, which is called the Life of the Universe, proceed the life and soul of everything which has soul and life." Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher and poet, answer at his trial before the Inquisitor in Venice, May 1592, quoted by I. Firth in "Life of Giordano Bruno, Boston 1887, p. 123
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

11) "The sun makes of our planet an alchemical retort in which the ocean waters are lifted to heaven and then, their impurities distilled away, are returned to the earth in drops of rain. This continuous circular process epitomizes the natural interrelationship between heaven and earth – between the archetypal figures of the collective unconscious and man's ego reality." Sallie Nichols, Jungian author
     - Maria Parisen, compiler - Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power

12) "The circle (or sphere) is a symbol of the Self. It expresses the totality of the psyche in all its aspects, including the relationship between man and the whole of nature. Whether the symbol of the circle appears in primitive sun worship or modern religion, in myths or dreams, in the mandalas drawn by Tibetan monks, in the ground plans of cities, or in the spherical concepts of early astronomers, it always points to the single most vital aspect of life – its ultimate wholeness." Aniela Jaffe, 'Symbolism in the Visual Arts'
     - Carl Jung - Man and His Symbols

13) "The sphere is a whole, and hence it underlies the symbolic significance of all those images which partake of this wholeness, from the idea of the mystic 'Centre' to that of the world and eternity, or , more particularly, of the world-soul. In neo-platonic philosophy, the soul is explicitly related to the shape of the sphere, and the substance of the soul is deposited as quintessence around the concentric spheres of the four Elements. The same is true of the primordial man of Plato's Timaeus….Another important association is that of perfection and felicity. The absence of corners and edges is analogous to the absence of inconveniences, difficulties, and obstacles."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

14) "The soul has movement – First it moves in a circle, that is, it turns within itself and away from what is outside and there is an inner concentration of its intellectual powers. A sort of fixed revolution causes it to return from the multiplicity of externals, to gather in upon itself and then, in this undispersed condition, to join those who are themselves in a powerful union. From there the revolution brings the soul to the Beautiful and the Good, which is beyond all things, is one and the same, and has neither beginning nor end."
     - John Farina, Editor-in-Chief - Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works

15) "There is a simple self-moving power directing all things to mingle as one; it starts out from the Good, reaches down to the lowliest creation, returns then in due order through all the stages back to the Good, and thus turns from itself and through itself and upon itself and toward itself in an everlasting circle."
     - John Farina, Editor-in-Chief - Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works

16) "The whole world is a circle. All of these circular images reflect the psyche, so there may be some relationship between these architectural designs and the actual structuring of our spiritual functions….the circle represents totality. Everything within the circle is one thing, which is encircled, enframed. That would be the spatial aspect. But the temporal aspect of the circle is that you leave, go somewhere, and always come back. God is the alpha and the omega, the source and the end. The circle suggests immediately a completed totality, whether in time or in space."
     - Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth

17) "Since consciousness has always been described in terms derived from the behavior of light, it is in my view not too much to assume that these multiple luminosities correspond to ..conscious phenomena. If the luminosity appears in monadic form as a single star, sun, or eye, it readily assumes the shape of a mandala and must then be interpreted as the self…The symbols of the self have a uniting character." 'On The Nature of the Psyche', CW 8
     - V S DeLasslo, editor - Basic Writings of C G Jung

18) "Between four and six thousand years ago the ancient peoples in Europe built stone circles and decorated them with interlocking scroll loops. Similar motifs appear all over the world. The psychologist Carl Jung said such images are archetypes or universal structures in the collective unconscious of humankind. Could such a collective wisdom perhaps be expressing its intuitions of the wholeness within nature, the order and simplicity, chance and predictability that lie in the interlocking and unfolding of things?"
     - John Briggs and F. David Peat - Turbulent Mirror

19) "We are embedded in communities, circles within circles of communities, both small and large, focused and abstract. Holding up the ideal of unity, we strive to break down the walls which separate us from others – not only other nations and peoples, but other species and the natural world."
     - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

20) "In the circle of life all things are present and connected."
     - Jean Houston with Margaret Rubin - Manual for the PeaceMaker

21) "Represent Unity by a circle; at the Present Moment, outside Time, a scission occurs and forms two streams: one goes to the left, away from the other, which goes to the right; each runs on a half of the circle, the Chinese Yin and Yang. On the opposite side, the antagonists rediscover each other and unite. The circle, or cycle, has never ceased to be, the scission has broken nothing…..This absurdity is the Truth." R. A. Schwaller deLubicz, 'Nature Word', Lindisfarne
     - R. A. Schwaller deLubicz - Nature Word

22) "In its most elevated form, the sacred circle mirrors an illumined state of consciousness through a symbolic pattern – making the invisible visible. It is meant to draw both creator and viewer into an encounter with animating sources of numinous energy."
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

23) "In spiritual traditions worldwide, mandalas focus and reflect the spiritual content of the psyche for both maker and viewer. They are used as a healing and transforming art in Native American sand painting, Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist rituals, and modern psycho-therapy. In Jungian psychology, the mandala brings about healing in a type of psychological event called a crisis of transition. Here the ego fragments and is in danger of collapsing; the mandala forges a new relationship of the ego to the Self."
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

24) "No matter what cultural lens is used, the symbol of a circle which contains the whole world and the various evolutionary levels of consciousness is powerful and universal."
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

25) "The universe is a mandalic mirror – a sacred art and science of divine creative processes."
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

26) "You might think of the mandala as reflecting back to us the harmony and beauty of our nonmaterial reality."
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

27) "All over the world one can find temples constructed as three-dimensional mandalas. One can also find labyrinths, which are circular walkways created from sacred geometry. Walking in them allows you to become part of an integrating mandala reflecting universal wholeness."
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

28) "The shape of the world exists everlastingly in the knowledge of the true Love which is God: constantly circling, wonderful for human nature, and such that it is not consumed by age and cannot be increased by anything new….in its workings the Godhead is like a wheel, a whole." Hildegard of Bingen,
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

29) "In both dreams and religion, the relation of the center to the mandala expresses the relation between the potential and the actual." Michael Flanagin, Ph.D., 'The Mandala in Jungian Psychotherapy'
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

30) "The mandala embraces both directions, which is why it is the consummate archetype of East and West alike. As the 'alpha and omega', the center is a union of opposites – a reflection of the true higher Self." ." Michael Flanagin, Ph.D., 'The Mandala in Jungian Psychotherapy'
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

31) "It is no accident that Jung discovered the mandala in the context of psychiatry. The mandala often is constellated naturally to heal and protect such profound transformative experiences." ." Michael Flanagin, Ph.D., 'The Mandala in Jungian Psychotherapy'
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

32) "In the state of consciousness natural to the field within the mandala – that of Self-realization, or nonduality – such opposites as inner and outer, or subjective and objective, male or female, matter and spirit, are all grasped as connected, married, ultimately unified." Michael Flanagin, Ph.D., 'The Mandala in Jungian Psychotherapy'
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

33) "The emergence of the mandala in the spiritual and artistic imagination of various pioneering figures of our century anticipates a new consciousness that can contain these opposites simultaneously." Michael Flanagin, Ph.D., 'The Mandala in Jungian Psychotherapy'
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

34) "I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles, in which vital and transforming events take place." Rufus Jones
     - Parker J. Palmer - A Hidden Wholeness, The Journey Toward An Undivided Life

35) "Circles are archetypal images, representing the self."
     - Kathleen R. Prata - Symbols, Guiding Lights Along the Journey of Life

36) "The circle is a symbol of completeness; as indicated by the words, 'The Lord thy God is One.' (Mark 12:29)." Edgar Cayce
     - Kathleen R. Prata - Symbols, Guiding Lights Along the Journey of Life

37) "The circle represents the superconscious mind, perfect and complete before creation. It is the symbol of unmanifested Deity, including everything and wanting nothing, without beginning or end, neither first nor last, timeless, sexless, absolute." Violet Shelley, 'Symbols and the Self'
     - Kathleen R. Prata - Symbols, Guiding Lights Along the Journey of Life

38) "In early Christian remains, the circle frequently appears as a serpent with its tail in its mouth." Violet Shelley, 'Symbols and the Self'
     - Kathleen R. Prata - Symbols, Guiding Lights Along the Journey of Life

39) "Concentric circles, with one circle inside another, represents the cosmos."
     - Kathleen R. Prata - Symbols, Guiding Lights Along the Journey of Life

40) "The Light will return to the Infinite Source whence it sprang, forming a luminous circle that will encompass the universe throughout eternity."
     - Migene Gonzalez-Wippler - Kabbalah for the Modern World

41) "Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not. This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well….Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined to you."
     - Helen Schucman and William Thetford - A Course in Miracles

42) "When White Buffalo Calf Woman came among us bringing the Sacred Pipe which represents wholeness and holiness – the respectful honoring of our unity with all things – she reminded us of its importance for the continuance of Life itself. Ken Carey in 'Return of the Bird Tribes' brings us her words: 'Creation does not take place where there is a scattering and dissipation of energies,' she explained, 'Creation requires a gathering together and focusing of your power within a circle of commitment – like a seed, an egg, a womb or a marriage. If you would create and not destroy, you must remember always the Sacred Hoop. Consider wisely the ways in which you would use your power and then around those ways draw the sacred circle of commitment. In the warm atmosphere of that circle, the power of love builds and builds like a storm above the wet summer prairie until the circle can hold no more and explodes in the conception of the new." Brooke Medicine Eagle, Native American healer, 'Creating a Path of Beauty'
     - M. J. Ryan, editor - The Fabric of the Future

43) "Your psyche is spherical, whole and complete. When you are approaching an experience of that wholeness, you begin to notice circles and spheres. The sun and moon are magnificent spherical mandalas, and isn't it a wonderful gift that both by day and by night, the heavens present the symbol of your wholeness to you?....The sphere contains the center point of your cohesive power. It can be used as an imaging device to aid in your movement toward wholeness."
     - Mary-Margaret Moore - Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream

44) "At one with the physical world around them, they (Native Americans) perceived the interconnectedness of all things, the circular nature of the universe, and the rightness of both birth and death in the overall scheme of creation."
     - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. - Seven Paths to God, The Ways of the Mystic

45) "The mandala is a symbol which combines both the journey and its destination, the ideas of differentiation and the oneness of all things, the 'unus mundus'. Examples still persist from Paleolithic times as, for instance, in Rhodesian rock engravings. Such images, when they occur in modern dreams, are thus spontaneous re-creations of the most basic religious symbol known to humanity."
     - Anthony Stevens - Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind

46) "The Mandala is a figure or design found in the art of virtually all peoples. It is based on a perfectly balanced circle, in which the mid-point is given a particularly great importance."
     - Ira Progoff, Ph.D. - Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning

47) "The unconscious can be reached and expressed only by symbols, and art, myth, dream, and fantasy, with their symbolic propensities, are effective psychopomps, leading the mind to an anamnesis of the origins of psychic life. The result of this anamnesis (an 'unforgetting' or rediscovery) is, on the one hand, an accession to power and vitality resultant from this integration. On the other hand, the mind experiences a perception of something akin to essential form and divinity at the heart of the creation and begins to sense an underlying acausal pattern of continuous creation. The two aspects coalesce in spontaneous images, often taking the form of a mandala and emphasizing a unifying centrality surrounded by a symmetrical quaternary or circular structure suggesting a microcosmic-macrocosmic identity between creature and the cosmic creation."
     - Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D. - The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness

48) "According to Jung, the mandala is an image of unity and totality existing a priori and in potentia within the human mind. It represents the inner orderedness of the cosmic source, the foundation of beauty and harmony in a sacred cosmos, divinity unfolding in cosmos, nature, and mind."
     - Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D. - The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness

49) "There are times when doubts over me steal, but I know Thou are there and awake. Thou art – and art – and I feel no surging of aeons can shake Thee – Life is a ring, I have found – I am child, boy, man, more – I learn the circle is rich, the full round complete in its perfect return." Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), German poet
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

50) "A mandala [is] an ordering pattern or pattern of order which is either consciously devised or appears spontaneously as a product of unconscious processes."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

51) "Mandalas…are produced spontaneously, without external influence, even by children and adults who have never come into contact with any such ideas….The mandala symbolizes, by its central point, the ultimate unity of all archetypes as well as the multiplicity of the phemonenal world, and is therefore the empirical equivalent of the metaphysical concept of a 'unus mundus' [one world]."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

52) "In 1918-1919 Jung sketched a circular drawing in his notebook every morning. These mandalas gave him insight into the development of his personality, a sense of the meanings growing in him. 'My mandalas', he wrote, 'were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which were presented to me anew each day. In them I saw the self – that is, my whole being – actively at work.' ('Memories, Dreams, Reflections')"
     - John Welch, O. Carm. - Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila

53) "The mandala as a symbol of the self is the psyche's expression of its fundamental orientation to wholeness. Not only is it an expression of the goal, but it also indicates that the psyche has a built-in dynamism moving it toward its objective."
     - John Welch, O. Carm. - Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila

54) "The mandala focuses attention on the center. The circle allows a center to emerge and the center then organizes the chaos about it. Patterns of meaning develop in relationship to the center."
     - John Welch, O. Carm. - Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila

55) "Circular motifs…point to our original wholeness – they are without beginning and end, self-contained and eternal."
     - Charles Breaux - Journey Into Consciousness: The Chakras, Tantra and Jungian Psychology

56) "This sense of rounded completeness is always in man's mind as a background hope to all his thoughts and activities. He imagines his own lifetime to have a rounded completeness."
     - Richard Guggenheimer - Creative Vision for Art and for Life

57) "God created the empyrean or highest heaven as a pure and simple radiance encircling and enclosing all the heavens and every corporeal and material thing which he ever created." John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381),
     - Colleen McDannell & Bernhard Lang - Heaven, A History

58) "The mandala emphasizes the process of spiritual growth, of the mind's evolution echoing the evolution of the universe."
     - Todd Siler - Breaking the Mind Barrier

59) "The mandals [is] a sacred, mystical symbol of the universe."
     - Todd Siler - Breaking the Mind Barrier

60) "The 'Wheel of the Law' sculpture in Buddhist art explores with astute realism the unproportioned, timeless space. Similarly, 'The Wheels of the Sun Chariot' of Surya Deul Temple at Konorak, in northeastern India, interprets time as a cyclical form – where beginnings and ends are arbitrary points. You will find similar interpretations in particle physics and cosmology which postulate a cyclical pattern to the creation/re-creation of the cosmos. The reason for this repetition of themes may rest on one straightforward fact: Our minds, like the universe, probably undergo similar cyclical transformations in their evolution. And so everything we theorize regarding this pattern of evolution takes place inside us. Since the human mind invented these notions, they probably reflect in form and in substance the nature of the mind itself."
     - Todd Siler - Breaking the Mind Barrier

61) "The circle with the point in the centre is symbolic of the perfected man. He is rounded out; he is inclusive both vertically (soul contact) and horizontally (human relationship)."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Rays and The Initiations

62) "In Aristotle's cosmology, the circular motions of the celestial spheres, and through them all other cycles of natural change, are sustained eternally by the prime mover, which moves all things by the attraction of its perfect being."
     - Mortimer J. Adler, editor - The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1

63) "The hearth in the home, the altar in the temple, is the hub of the wheel of the earth, the womb of the Universal Mother whose fire is the fire of life."
     - Joseph Campbell - Hero With A Thousand Faces

64) "The oldest mandala drawing known to me is a paleolithic 'sun wheel', recently discovered in Rhodesia….Things reaching so far back in human history naturally touch upon the deepest layer of the unconscious and affect the latter where conscious speech shows itself to be quite impotent. Such things cannot be thought up but must grow again from the forgotten depths, if they are to express the deepest insights of consciousness and the loftiest intuitions of the spirit. Coming from these depths they blend together the uniqueness of present-day consciousness with the age-old past of life." C. G. Jung
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - The Secret of the Golden Flower

65) "They [mandalas] are among the oldest religious symbols of humanity and may even have existed in paleolithic times (cf. the Rhodesian rock paintings). Moreover they are distributed all over the world."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

66) "The mandala…portrays an autonomous psychic fact, characterized by a phenomenology which is always repeating itself and is everywhere the same. It seems to be a sort of atomic nucleus."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

67) "Well, there is something magical about a circle. For one thing, geometrically it encompasses more space than any other shape. But this is just a mathematical beginning. The circle is also profoundly symbolic, for a circle travels without leave-taking. So it combines journeying with returning. It's powerful in bringing the two together."
     - Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau - The Way Things Are

68) "The mandala form is universal and deeply fixed in our psyche." Jeanne Miles, American artist
     - various - Parabola, the Magazine of Myth and Tradition

69) "We connect with Her [Goddess] through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all. She is the full circle."
     - Starhawk (Miriam Simos) - The Spiral Dance, A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

70) "The center of the circle is the point of transformation. It corresponds to pure essence, to timelessness, to transparent light."
     - Starhawk (Miriam Simos) - The Spiral Dance, A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

71) "The circle is ever open, ever unbroken. May the Goddess awaken in each of our hearts."
     - Starhawk (Miriam Simos) - The Spiral Dance, A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess

72) "The mandala is an image and a synthesis of the dualistic aspects of differentiation and unification, of variety and unity, the external and the internal, the diffuse and the concentrated. It excludes disorder..because, by its very nature, it must surmount disorder. It is, then, the visual, plastic expression of the struggle to achieve order – even within diversity – and of the longing to be reunited with the pristine, non-spatial and non-temporal 'Centre', as it is conceived in all symbolic traditions."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

73) "In Jung's view, mandalas and all concomitant images….are derived from dreams and visions corresponding to the most basic of religious symbols known to mankind – symbols which are known to have existed as far back as the Paleolithic Age, as is proved, for example, by the Rhodesian rock engravings."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

74) "The mandla fulfils its function as an aid to man in his efforts to regroup all that is dispersed around a single axis."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

75) "The idea of rotation is the keystone of most transcendent symbols: of the mediaeval 'Rota'; of the Wheel of Buddhist transformations; of the zodiacal cycle; of the myth of the Gemini; and of the 'opus' [work] of the alchemists. The idea of the world as a labyrinth or of life as a pilgrimage leads to the idea of the 'centre' as a symbol of the absolute goal of Man – Paradise regained….Pictorially, this central point is sometimes identified with the geometric centre of the symbolic circle."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

76) "Among the Chinese, the infinite being is frequently symbolized as a point of light with concentric circles spreading outwards from it."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

77) "In neo-platonic philosophy, the soul is explicitly related to the shape of the sphere."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

78) "Psychoanalysts have noted that the joining of the square with the circle (in such forms as the star, the rose, the lotus, concentric circles, the circle with a visible central point, etc.) is symbolic of the final stage in the process of individuation, or, in other words, of that phase of spiritual development when imperfections (irregular shapes) have been eliminated…for the sake of concentrating upon the achievement of Oneness."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

79) "All centres are symbols of eternity, since time is the motion of the periphery of the wheel of phenomena rotating around the Aristotelian 'unmoved mover'."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

80) "The point signifies unity, the Origin and the Centre. It also represents the principles of manifestation and emanation, and hence in some mandalas the centre is not actually shown but must be imagined….There are two kinds of point to be considered: that which has no magnitude and is symbolic of creative virtue, and that which – as suggested by Raymond Lull in his 'Nova Geometria' – has the smallest conceivable or practicable magnitude and is a symbol of the principle of manifestation."
     - J. E. Cirlot - A Dictionary of Symbols

81) "The centre of a circle is regarded as the indivisible source of all the radii extending from it;…pre-existing in God are all the inner essences of created things." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Second Century on Theology'
     - various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain - The Philokalia, volume 2

82) "We need to worship in circles again, preferably on the soil of Mother Earth wherever possible. Circles invite all creatures to be part of the grateful event and they allow the humans present to look each other in the eye while rounding and connecting themselves in step with the universe."
     - Matthew Fox - The Coming of the Cosmic Christ

83) "A certain circulation appears in love because it is from good and toward good and that circling agrees with the divine eternity of love, since circular motion alone can be perpetual." Thomas Aquinas, DDN, n. 450, p. 148
     - Matthew Fox - Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality

84) "Every point is equally the center of a circle whose radius is infinite."
     - Charles W. Leadbeater - The Inner Life

85) "We know from experience that the protective circle, the mandala, is the traditional antidote for chaotic states of mind."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

86) "Mandalas are birth-places, vessels of birth in the most literal sense, lotus-flowers in which a Buddha comes to life."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

87) "Although 'wholeness' seems at first sight to be nothing but an abstract idea, it is nevertheless empirical in so far as it is anticipated by the psyche in the form of spontaneous or autonomous symbols. These are the quaternity or mandala symbols, which occur not only in the dreams of modern people who have never heard of them, but are widely disseminated in the historical records of many peoples and many epochs. Their significance as symbols of unity and totality is amply confirmed by history as well as by empirical psychology. What at first looks like an abstract idea stands in reality for something that exists and can be experienced, that demonstrates its a priori presence spontaneously."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

88) "The mandala represents the idea of totality."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

89) "Mandalas are also formed with the hands, danced, and represented in music (for instance Bach's 'Art of Fugue')….When a mandala is being formed, everything round and square known to man works on it too. But the impetus for its formation comes from the unconscious archetype."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

90) "Jung, in his studies of the mandala geometric designs which arise from the depths of the unconscious, came to the conclusion that in these mandalas one can find the expression of the Anthropos, or 'complete man.'"
     - Stephan A. Hoeller - The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead

91) "Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: 'Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind's eternal recreation.' And that is the self, the wholeness of the personality."
     - Carl Jung (edited by Aniela Jaffe) - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

92) "When I began drawing mandalas, I saw that everything, all the paths I had been following, all the steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point – namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation."
     - Carl Jung (edited by Aniela Jaffe) - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

93) "In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternary figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures."
     - Carl Jung (edited by Aniela Jaffe) - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

94) "The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground."
     - Carl Jung (edited by Aniela Jaffe) - Memories, Dreams, Reflections

95) "I am deeply convinced of the unity of the self, as demonstrated by mandala symbolism."
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1906-1950

96) "Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin. If the soul knows this, it will move around this center from which it came, will cling to it and commune with it as indeed all souls should….for divinity consists in being attached to the center." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
     - Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J. - The Essential Plotinus

97) "The soul is a spiritual substance of spherical nature, like the globe of the moon, or like a glass vessel that is furnished before and behind with eyes and sees the whole universe." Caesarius of Heisterbach, medieval Alchemist, 'Dialogus miraculorum', Dist. IV, ch. xxxix
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

98) "The One is the midpoint of the circle."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

99) "Everything is to be brought within the circle of Love."
     - Annie Besant - From the Outer Court to the Inner Sanctum

100) "All this, then, was the plan of the everlasting god for the god who was going to be. According to this plan he made the body of the world smooth and uniform, everywhere equidistant from its center, a body whole and complete, with complete bodies for its parts. And in the centre he set the soul and caused it to extend throughout the whole body, and he further wrapped the body round with soul on the outside. So he established one world alone." Plato, 'Timaeus'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

101) "Since olden times the circle with a centre has been a symbol for the Deity, illustrating the wholeness of God incarnate."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

102) "If we study the introspective method of medieval natural philosophy, we find that it repeatedly used the circle, and in most cases the circle divided into four parts, to symbolize the central principle."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

103) "In nature the One circle gives rise to the Many, in the shapes and orbits of the planets, in the roundness of berries, nests, eyeballs, and the cycles of time."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

104) "Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round." Black Elk (1863-1950), Native American elder
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

105) "The eye is the first circle, the horizon which it forms is the second: and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American essayist and poet
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

106) "Looking at a circle is like looking into a mirror. We create and respond irresistibly to circles, cylinders, and spheres because we recognize ourselves in them. The message of the shape bypasses our conscious mental circuitry and speaks directly to the quiet intelligence of our deepest being. The circle is a reflection of the world's – and our own – deep perfection, unity, design excellence, wholenes, and divine nature."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

107) "Each circle you see or create is a profound statement about the transcendental nature of the uni-verse."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

108) "Our deepest awareness, the power that motivates all awareness, which we can call the 'Power to Be Conscious,' of which we are not ordinarily cognizant, recognizes its own transcendental nature in the geometry of the circle. For this reason the circle has been a universal symbol of an ideal perfection and divine state that always exists around and within us whether we acknowledge it or not."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

109) "Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were…. and so it is in everything where Power moves." Black Elk, Native American elder
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

110) "A circle [is] the traditional symbol of heaven, wholeness, and unity."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

111) "The Circle is the Thought; the diameter (or the line) is the Word; and their union is Life."
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - The Secret Doctrine

112) "Through God, all bodies come together, exert influence upon one another and sustain one another in the unity of the all-embracing sphere."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

113) "We are the countless centres of one and the same sphere."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

114) "The animate world is the larger circle, man is the smaller circle. He is the microcosm. Consequently, everything without is within, everything above is below. Between all things in the larger and smaller circles reigns 'correspondence'."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

115) "It is the Mandala that can burst the fetters of man's internal bondage and conflict by leading him to a viewpoint from which the various polarities may be harmonized."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

116) "Universally inherent in man's consciousness, the Mandala has continually appeared in his constructions, rituals and art forms."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

117) "Sacred consciousness, of which the Mandala is a structural model, conforms to the Hermetic statement, 'God is an intelligent sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.'"
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

118) "The Mandala is a module exhibiting principles of organicity: interrelationship of parts, interdependence of systems, resonance and synchronicity."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

119) "In a world that is split, divided by the 'Civil War of Man', healing is needed to make whole. Mandala is a whole-ing technique; it is the alchemy of opposites reuniting, a blueprint that can be placed upon anything, or any man or being."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

120) "The circular sea with no outlet, which perpetually replenishes itself by means of a spring bubbling up in its centre, is to be found in [the writings of] Nicholas of Cusa as an allegory of God."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

121) "The circle, as the symbol of completeness and perfect being, is a widespread expression for heaven, sun, and God; it also expresses the primoridal image of man and the soul."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

122) "Circular is the matrix of the perfect form."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

123) "The world and its inhabitants are integral facets of one Mandala."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

124) "Man is a transition, an agent of transformation as well as the material to be transformed. This transformative operation can occur only through the focusing power of some new symbol or image of the whole process in which man now finds himself involved. In its universality, the Mandala provides at least the base structure for such a symbol."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

125) "The Mandala is the Mother of symbols."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

126) "If man has alienated himself from the source, the center within, then it is the purpose of a Mandala ritual for our time to be used as a primal tool for investigating and opening that center, once again granting the individual an identification with the cosmic forces and their source."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

127) "The mandala is, above all, a map of the cosmos. It is the whole universe in its essential plan, in its process of emanation and of reabsorption…..the universe not only in its inert spatial expanse, but as temporal revolution and both as a vital process which develops from an essential principle and rotates round a central axis." G. Tucci
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

128) "The Mandala is infinite, as are the capacities of the individual."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

129) "In the present struggle of the planet the mandala presents itself as the seed-symbol of a more harmonized world order….The vision of renewed wholeness and brotherhood slowly spreads and filters through the consciousness of the [human] race."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

130) "The Mandala was developed as a reminder of the direct perception of reality."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

131) "The Mandala has appeared throughout man's history as a universal and essential symbol of integration, harmony, and transformation. It gives form to the most primordial intuition of the nature of reality, an intuition that inheres in each of us, giving us life."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

132) "The circle is the original sign, the prime symbol of the nothing and the all; the symbol of heaven and the solar eye, the all-encompassing form beyond and through which man finds and loses himself."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

133) "From whichever point a Mandala is entered, a path opens that leads to the eternal center."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

134) "In one sense, all sacred religious structures partake of the Mandala principle: the Egyptian and Mexican pyramids; the temples of India, Buddhist stupas; Islamic mosques; the pagodas of China and Japan; and the tipis and kivas of North America; in the churches and cathedrals of Christianity."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

135) "In Black Elk's vision, the hoop of his people will be reunited only when the tree of the center flowers once again. This is the vision of a Mandala of global consciousness."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

136) "As a cosmogenic model, the Mandala is a synchronous, self-renewing whole."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

137) "The holistic perception of alchemy relates directly to the Mandala. Many alchemical charts take on a Mandala form in revealing the integral interrelationships between the elements and qualities of nature. Alchemy also defines the proceses of consciousness as an on-going state of integral awareness."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

138) "The inner eye of the soul perceives life with the spherical vision of the mind of God."
     - Kuthumi and Djwal Kul - The Human Aura

139) "Thirty-three centuries ago, Ikhnaton, the pharaoh of Egypt, described the universe as a giant egg, a great cell of being in which he conceived the nucleus as the source of that creative force which he acknowledged as the life energy of God."
     - Kuthumi and Djwal Kul - The Human Aura

140) "One by one you take your place in the mandala of saints and bodhisattvas."
     - Elizabeth Clare Prophet - Quietly Comes the Buddha: Awakening Your Inner Buddha Nature

141) "Man is an imperishable circle in the sphere of Divinity."
     - Geoffrey Hodson - Reincarnation: Fact or Fallacy?

142) "I believe we can apply consciousness to heal the world – and we already are. Great power lies within us. What has been missing is the mechanism for organizing this power. I believe this mechanism of empowerment and action is THE CIRCLE."
     - Christina Baldwin - Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

143) "The circle, often in the form of the Sun Wheel, is represented in different cultures as the Medicine Wheel, the Wheel of Law and Life, the Wheel of the Year, and the Catherine Wheel. Jung traced the image of the circle back to the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, when wheels were carved and painted as a sacred symbol, thousands of years before the wheel was invented as an actual tool. Based on this research, Jung saw the wheel as a primary symbol, one of the mythic motifs springing from the collective unconscious."
     - Christina Baldwin - Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

144) "It seems the circle has resided within us since the dawn of time, and is a form familiar to us at a deeply resonant level. Over and over again, when this mythic resonance is activated, people experience a sense of 'having been here before' as they enter the circle."
     - Christina Baldwin - Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

145) "Re-vision your home as a container for a sacred circle of love."
     - Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D. - Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self

146) "Symbolically, in the infinite ocean of light, with centre everywhere and with circumference nowhere, there arises a full-orbed sphere of living light, a Logos, and the surface of the sphere is His will to limit Himself that He may become manifest, His veil in which He incloses Himself that within it a universe may take form."
     - Annie Besant - The Ancient Wisdom

147) "The hidden potential within the single fertilized cell from which the entire structure of a human arises is a mirror in miniature of the creation."
     - Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D. - The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

148) "Nothing is excluded from the circle of wholeness."
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

149) "Reflecting on wholeness and balance as represented by symbols of integration such as the cross and the circle can sometimes help us bring our spiritual life into balance."
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

150) "The circle is a symbol of wholeness, totality and individuation."
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

151) "Every movement that returns to its point of origin must adopt the form of a circle. Only circular movement is continuous and consistent. Every object of nature is, then, a circle, whose function and activity derive from its center point, which is the soul." Dr. Felix Marti-Ibanez, 'Centaur, Essays on the History of Medical Ideas'
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

152) "Deity and the cosmos may be likened to a circle or sphere whose circumference is nowhere – hence boundless – but those center is everywhere. And each monad is such a divine, immortal, preexistent center." Editors
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

153) "The mandala is the central symbol of individuation, integration, or wholeness. One could say that a key component of the transformation of vision in psychospiritual development is the perceiving of the visual field as a kind of mandala. American Indian vision seekers have reported that they see the 'circle of the Sky' touch the 'circle of the Earth', forming one great hoop…it is Buckminster Fuller's sphere of 'omnidirectional awareness', moving always with us."
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

154) "A mandala represents the whole, unified field of consciousness."
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

155) "I live my life in growing orbits, which move out over the things of the world…I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years." Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke'
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

156) "The circle is a symbol of God, and the movement of God is in all directions." John Redtail Freesoul, 'The Native American Prayer Pipe: Ceremonial Object and Tool of Self-Realization'
     - Shirley Nicholson, Compiler - Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality

157) "The Universe is boundless and unlimited, a circle whose circumference is everywhere."
     - Zolar - Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge

158) "In order for this world to fulfill itself, we must interact together, forming a full circle of reality, a great ballet of spirit and experience, choreographed perfectly to afford each of us a starring role in the game of Life."
     - Iris Belhayes - Spirit Guides

159) "The great wheels turn in cyclic motion, bearing all things toward one consummation."
     - H. K. Challoner - Regents of the Seven Spheres

160) "From atom to god, the Law repeats itself in ever widening circles."
     - H. K. Challoner - Regents of the Seven Spheres

161) "In the Mind's Eye I see the Infinite Sphere and Its Self-Awareness, two that are One."
     - William Samuel - The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics

162) "Both as a principle of unity and a model of the cosmos, the sphere represents the ultimate undivided, undifferentiated whole." Keith Chritchlow, 'Twelve Criteria for Sacred Architecture'
     - Christopher Bamford, editor - Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science

163) "The native people of North America have a practice known as council. Sitting in a council circle is fundamentally about listening and paying attention in a profound way."
     - Tom Crockett - Stone Age Wisdom, The Healing Principles of Shamanism

164) "The circle has ever been considered symbolical of the Deity; for as a circle appears to have neither beginning nor end, it may be justly considered a type [archetype] of God, without either beginning of days or ending of years."
     - Robert Macoy - A Dictionary of Freemasonry

165) "The Point within a Circle…is the Divine Spirit indwelling creation and abiding in the nature of man."
     - Arthur Edward Waite - A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

166) "I think the Native Americans have it right when they say, 'Life is a circle'." Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
     - Rex Hauck, editor - Angels: The Mysterious Messengers

167) "In a twelfth-century hermetic text known as 'The Book of the Twenty-Four Philosophers' there is a statement that has been quoted, through the centuries, by a number of Christian thinkers – among others, Alan of Lille (1128-1202), Nicholas Cusanus (1401-1464), Rabelais (1490?-1553), Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), and Pascal (1632-1662), as well as Voltaire (1694-1778); to wit: 'God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.'" Joseph Campbell
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

168) "The circle symbolizes the all and the eternal, the celestial unity of all." Herbert Silberer, 'Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts'
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

169) "Stay at the centre of the circle and let all things take their course." Lao-Tzu
     - Paul Roland - Revelations: The Wisdom of the Ages

170) "The natural image to depict the Infinite's inclusiveness is a circle, an all-including circle that encompasses our finite universe and out of which it is impossible to fall. 'In Him we live and move and have our being', Paul tells us, and Augustine added, 'God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.'"
     - Huston Smith - The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition

171) "The world snake, 'ouroboros', swallowing its own tail, expresses the essence of Gnostic esotericism. It is a representation of the cosmos, the circle of eternal becoming, often seen with the words "One is the All.'"
     - Martin Seymour-Smith - Gnosticism: The Path of Inner Knowledge

172) "We will see how we are a tribe and a company, in circle after circle rippling out and intersecting. We will see how we are all entering each other – as gifts to each other, mirroring and completing each other: and how we are all unique angles on the centre."
     - Jay Ramsay - Alchemy, The Art of Transformation

173) "The ouroboros is an expression of the unified field of matter and mind, and the cosmic destiny that is also ours. 'Oneness'.
     - Jay Ramsay - Alchemy, The Art of Transformation

174) "The World Snake, called 'Ouroboros' in Greek, was said to be itself both male and female, self-impregnating, self-feeding, immortal and complete. Thus it is the mythic image for both God and nature."
     - Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene - The Mythic Tarot

175) "In the cyclic system of the ancients, birth and death merged in a circular continuum."
     - Barbara G. Walker - The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

176) "Mandalas have been used by many cultures to represent the creation of the universe. Carl Jung has theorized that mandalas represent centering, the unification of parts of the psyche."
     - Mike Samuels, M.D. and Nancy Samuels - Seeing With the Mind's Eye

177) "The mandala symbolizes the cosmos, and the center of the mandala represents the axis of the universe."
     - Mike Samuels, M.D. and Nancy Samuels - Seeing With the Mind's Eye

178) "The circle has been variously interpreted as a state of oneness, unity, heaven, the sun, Yang, the Self, ultimate wholeness, enlightenment."
     - Mike Samuels, M.D. and Nancy Samuels - Seeing With the Mind's Eye

179) "The word 'mandala' means circle in Sanskrit. The mandala, a design form which radiates out from a center, is ancient and universal, appearing in art, architecture, and dance of cultures everywhere. It is the 'magic circle' and often has a ritual, religious symbolism as in the rose window of medieval churches….In times of confusion or stress it is a way to collect your thoughts."
     - Marilyn Ferguson - Marilyn Ferguson's Book of PragMagic

180) "Even a pebble or a tiny insect is gathered up in the sacred hoop." Leonard Crow Dog (Sioux Native American),
     - Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz, editors - American Indian Myths and Legends

181) "I have found that the eye which sees the whole circle expresses our soul simply and perfectly." Nikos Kazantzakis
     - T. C. McLuhan - The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought

182) “The most famous image of the Self is the mandala. Mandala means ‘circle’ in Sanskrit, and usually refers to a sacred circle.”
     - Richard Smoley and Jay Kinney - Hidden Wisdom

183) “’The circle is the emblem of our religion’, says Rolling Thunder. ‘It’s in all things that have life.’”
     - Richard Smoley and Jay Kinney - Hidden Wisdom

184) “Roundness partakes of the nature of wholeness because the circle or sphere (like wholeness) is without beginning or end. To think in round terms may be interpreted to mean keeping the mentality upon the level of greatest inclusiveness, ever striving to attain fuller inclusiveness.”
     - Manly P. Hall - Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

185) “The elements are conjoined in the circle of true friendship.” Petrus Bonus
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

186) “Caesarius of Heisterbach says that the soul has a ‘spherical nature.’”
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

187) “O great, greatest, incomprehensible fabric of the world, formed in a circle!” ‘Secret Inscription’ in the Great Magic Papyrus of Paris
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

188) “The circle is the primary law.” Aphorism 29 in Horneffer, ‘Nietzches Lehre von der Ewigen Wiederkunft’
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

189) “The circle has had enduring psychological significance from the earliest expressions of human consciousness to the most sophisticated forms of 20th-century art.” Aniela Jaffe, ‘Symbolism in the Visual Arts’
     - Carl Jung - Man and His Symbols

190) “The circle is a symbol of the psyche (even Plato described the psyche as a sphere).” Aniela Jaffe, ‘Symbolism in the Visual Arts’
     - Carl Jung - Man and His Symbols

191) “All the radii of a circle are brought together in the unity of the center which contains all the straight lines brought together within itself. These are linked one to another because of this single point of origin and they are completely unified at this center.”
     - John Farina, Editor-in-Chief - Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works

1) " ... If we try to live as closed systems, we are doomed to regress. If we enlarge our awareness, admit new information, and take advantage of the brain's brilliant capacity to integrate and reconcile, we can leap forward ... "
     - Marilyn Ferguson - The Aquarian Conspiracy

2) "Countless men and women in every land will form themselves into groups for the promotion of good-will and for the production of right human relations. So great will be their numbers that from being a small and relatively unimportant minority, they will be the largest and the most influential force in the world."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Reappearance of the Christ

3) "Perception of inconsistencies, of oppositions and of flat contradictions…these seem to be products of partial cognition, and fade away with cognition of the whole."
     - Abraham Maslow - Toward A Psychology of Being

4) "The harmonious cooperation of all beings arose, not from the orders of a superior authority external to themselves, but from the fact that they were all parts in a hierarchy of wholes forming a cosmic pattern, and what they obeyed were the internal dictates of their own natures. Modern science and the philosophy of organism, with its integrative levels, have come back to this wisdom, fortified by new understanding of cosmic, biological, and social evolution." Joseph Needham, 'Science and Civilization in China'
     - Ken Wilber - Spectrum of Consciousness

5) "Compassionate love…gradually releases humanity as a whole from bondage to the thought of separateness and to the seeming inevitability of conflict and war. It is a unifying power. It integrates the essential realities of individuals, groups, and nations by consuming in its fire the nonessentials which produce division and hatred. It seeks to reconstitute at the conscious level of mature personalities the primordial unconscious unity of the tribe state, and to reconstitute it in total inclusiveness. Tribal unanimity was exclusive of all other tribes; but transcendent love is boundary-transcending, culture-transcending, creed-transcending. Its goal is the 'One World' of a truly organized, global humanity."
     - Dane Rudhyar - Occult Preparations for a New Age

6) "All of us living beings belong together, in as much as we are all in reality sides or aspects of one single being, which may perhaps in western terminology be called God while in the Upanishads its name is Brahman." Erwin Schrodinger, 'My View of the World'
     - Joseph Campbell - Myths To Live By

7) "With the end of the purely rational and dualistic understanding of the world, of Newtonian physics and its logical categories and divisions, we are now beginning to speak in the terms of inter-connectedness, of the web of creation, of the network which brings all things together into a shared unity."
     - Helen Waddell - Beasts and Saints

8) "In communication, meaning unfolds into the whole community and unfolds from the community into each person. Thus, there is an internal relationship of human beings to each other, and to society as a whole. The explicate form of all this is the structure of society, and the implicate form is the content of the culture, which extends into the consciousness of each person."
     - David Bohm and F. David Peat - Science, Order, and Creativity, A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life

9) "Quantum theory reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated building blocks, but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of a unified whole." Ken Wilber, 'The Holographic Paradigm', 1982
     - Nona Coxhead - The Relevance of Bliss

10) "We are at bottom all knit together in a great and intimate family." Douglas V. Steere (b. 1901), philosophy teacher and author
     - Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors - Devotional Classics

11) "God has wisely joined us all together as the parts of a body so that we cannot say to another, 'I have no need of you.'" John Wesley (1703-1791), English spiritual leader
     - Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors - Devotional Classics

12) "Give to each other real love in the times that lie ahead, for it is the fusing and illuminating element in the life of the disciple. Let not your love remain theoretical, but give that true understanding which ignores mistakes, recognises no barriers, refuses all separating thoughts, and surrounds each other with that protecting wall of love that meets all need wherever possible – physical, emotional and mental.
     - Alice A. Bailey - Discipleship in the New Age

13) "Recognition of world-unity must become an absolutely governing principle in all relationships, between human beings, between man and animals, and all sentient creatures."
     - Geoffrey Hodson - Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination

14) "In the inmost Self, every human being is intimately related to every other…However marked the differences may be at the levels of the mortal man, inwardly the spirit in each one is the same, an essence which is equally shared. Indeed, the same actual, identical Life-Essence is incarnate or embodied in the whole of nature, nothing existing without that Presence being inherently within it as a veritable Reality."
     - Geoffrey Hodson - Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination

15) "The atom, the molecule, the cell, the body, the community, the planet, the solar system – all are in intimate and necessary relation to each other….The greater could not exist without the smaller, nor the smaller without the larger system that shapes it."
     - Robert Ellwood - Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages

16) "The world needs us to start extending wholeness, because that is what we are."
     - Tara Singh - A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind

17) "What you perceive in others you are strengthening in yourself."
     - Helen Schucman and William Thetford - A Course in Miracles

18) "When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself."
     - Helen Schucman and William Thetford - A Course in Miracles

19) "A society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them."
     - Various - Catechism of the Catholic Church

20) "In and through community lies the salvation of the world." M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

21) "We obviously have close ties to partners, family, and friends, but we are also part of layers and layers of communities."
     - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

22) "Who is our neighbor? The Samaritan? The outcast? The enemy? Yes, yes, of course. But it is also the whale, the dolphin and the rainforest. Our neighbor is the entire community of life, the entire universe. We must love it all as our self." Brian Patrick, author
     - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

23) "The core of my being is also the core of your being, and the core of all beings."
     - Deepak Chopra - Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire

24) "There are many parts to a body and every part is necessary for the smooth running of the whole. In a community there is need for many different types to make up the perfect whole."
     - Eileen Caddy - The Spirit of Findhorn

25) "This I certainly believe: that now it is necessary for our survival to have an ecological awareness, a notion of the inter-dependence of all phenomena, the notion of the sisterhood and brotherhood between all people." Fritjof Capra, 'Spirituality and Social Values'
     - Dora Kunz, Executive Editor - American Theosophist, The

26) "The moving finger of God in human history points ever in the same direction. There must be community." Howard Thurman
     - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

27) "We are embedded in communities, circles within circles of communities, both small and large, focused and abstract. Holding up the ideal of unity, we strive to break down the walls which separate us from others – not only other nations and peoples, but other species and the natural world."
     - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

28) "I am called to seek wholeness inside of myself. Healing begins here, in myself. Wholeness and unity begin inside of myself. If I am growing toward wholeness, then I'll be an agent of wholeness. If our community is an agent of wholeness, then it will be a source of life for the world around it." Jean Vanier, 'From Brokenness to Community'
     - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

29) "We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each one of us is a very important and unique part of it. Collectively, we can unite and bring about a powerful change in the world. By working to raise our awareness to the highest possible level of spiritual understanding, we can begin to heal ourselves, then each other and the world." Betty Eadie, 'The Divine Spirit'
     - Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield - Handbook for the Soul

30) "The ancient Jain scriptural aphorism 'all life is bound together by mutual support and interdependence' is refreshingly contemporary in its premise and perspective. It defines the scope of modern ecology while extending further to a more spacious 'home.' It means that all aspects of nature belong together and are bound in a physical as well as metaphysical relationship. Life is viewed as a gift of togetherness, accomodation and assistance in a universe teeming with interdependent constituents." Dr. L. M. Singhvi, lawyer, judge, author and poet
     - Michael Tobias, Jane Morrison, Bettina Gray, editors - A Parliament of Souls, In Search of Global Spirituality

31) "Remain always true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourself united with all those who, from every direction, every culture, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge." Pierre Teilhard deChardin to Jean Houston
     - Jean Houston - A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story

32) "Each of us is called from within to stabilize ourselves as cocreative humans, humans capable of accessing the eternal aspect of God and simultaneously awakening to the evolving aspect – humans expressing our God-given creative essence as Spirit-in-action in the world." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Discovery of a New Ordering of the Future'
     - Michael A. Maday, editor - New Thoughts for a New Millennium

33) "Nature has been forming synergistic systems for billions of years. Holism, the tendency to form whole systems out of separate parts, is the nature of reality." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Discovery of a New Ordering of the Future'
     - Michael A. Maday, editor - New Thoughts for a New Millennium

34) "When the social body comes together as a whole, it is Spirit that binds the parts, the same Spirit that synthesized the metals and minerals in our Earth, that organizes the cells in our bodies into stupendous communities of trillions of cells." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Discovery of a New Ordering of the Future'
     - Michael A. Maday, editor - New Thoughts for a New Millennium

35) "It would seem that in the Earth's living system we are the nervous system; that is, we are the individual neurons of the brain of the planet, with the consequent responsibility for organizing and orchestrating the functioning and well-being of the planetary body. This responsibility includes evolutionary governance and whole-system management. Living organism to living organism, we and earth are now co-trustees of those processes."
     - Jean Houston - The Search for the Beloved

36) "Remember that every effort you make in the direction of wholeness and the common good contributes to shifting the overall consciousness of our world." Dr. Barbara L. King, 'Will: The Foundation Faculty of the New Global Order'
     - Michael A. Maday, editor - New Thoughts for a New Millennium

37) "We are inherently connected with all other beings on this planet. Within nature, we are all interrelated, inexplicably linked together to form the miraculous whole called earth. This awareness enables us to fulfill our destinies within the human collective – while contributing our uniqueness to the healing of the world." Helen Hunt, M.A., 'Living from the Heart'
     - Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, editors - Handbook for the Heart, Original Writings on Love

38) "By revisioning, and therefore changing our consciousness, all of our personal and global relationships can be brought into harmony. The greatest challenge facing each of us is to take personal responsibility for living in harmony with all life forms and understanding the delicate web of connections between all life and the Earth."
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

39) "As we enter the next millennium, we are challenged to integrate our feminine and masculine selves, and to heal our sense of fragmentation. By letting go of our sense of separateness and aligning our wills with God's, we can become clear channels of revelation and solutions for personal and global healing. Many great people have gone before us to light our way – we need only open the spiritual eye to see and the spiritual ear to hear."
     - Judith Cornell, Ph.D. - Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing

40) "A human being is a part of the whole called the 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all its beauty." Albert Einstein
     - Marianne Williamson - Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

41) "There is nothing and no one outside us, so much as there are mirrors everywhere. Every person is a part of us, and we are a part of every person."
     - Marianne Williamson - Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

42) "Building genuine connection and deep community among the peoples of the world is the historical task of our generation."
     - Marianne Williamson - Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

43) "We each have an opportunity right now to contribute to the evolution of ourselves, our species, and the planet as a whole. Everyone is needed. Everyone's genius fits into some evolving need of the whole system." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Awakening to Our Genius: The Heroine's Journey'
     - M. J. Ryan, editor - The Fabric of the Future

44) "Organisms shape themselves in response to their neighbors and their environments. All respond to one another, co-evolving and co-creating the complex systems of organization that we see in nature. Life is systems-seeking. It seeks organization. Organization is a naturally occuring phenomenon. Self-organization is the powerful force by which Gaia created herself through relationships, creating all the living systems we see. She knows how to organize from the inside out, from partnering with neighors rather than from imposition and control." Margaret J. Wheatley, 'Reclaiming Gaia, Reclaiming Life'
     - M. J. Ryan, editor - The Fabric of the Future

45) "We have a magnificent metaphor for the presence of love in our midst. Our fabulous technological ingenuity has created a world that is now linked by a pulsating electronic web, a global nervous system which demonstrates in a very concrete way that as a body of humanity we are all beautifully linked together, that we are all incredibly connected…… the real challenge now is for us to see that it is love that is truly the web of our connection, that we are all of a piece as human beings and spirits, that we share the same joys and woes, that we partake of the same eternal spiritual destiny." Daphne Rose Kingma, 'A Profound Infusion of Love'
     - M. J. Ryan, editor - The Fabric of the Future

46) "Part of the information that we need now is an awareness of the indivisibility of our relationship with each other – peoples of all races, nationalities, ethnicities, and classes – and with the Earth and all her creatures." China Galland, 'The Black Madonna and the Limits of Light: Looking Underneath Christianity, A Teaching for Our Time'
     - M. J. Ryan, editor - The Fabric of the Future

47) "Behind all lies a biological and psychic cooperative venture."
     - Jane Roberts - The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

48) "We are all worth healing."
     - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. - Seven Paths to God, The Ways of the Mystic

49) "In the ultimate depth of being, we find ourselves no longer separate but, rather, part of the unity of the universe. That unity includes the sufferer and the suffering, and the healer and that which heals. Therefore, all acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self." Ram Dass
     - Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal - As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life

50) "In a sense, I am we."
     - Christine Downing, editor - Mirrors of The Self, Archetypal Images That Shape Your Life

51) "A worldwide communications network now links the people of the earth in a way unimaginable one hundred years ago. And there is clear evidence of an emerging segment of society which holds a holistic vision of human nature and ways of living."
     - Mark A. Thurston, Ph.D. - Visions and Prophecies for a New Age

52) "All images and experiences of my soul are images and experiences of your soul. This field of psychic reality which is immanent to each transcends the individual differences between us, giving us the common language based on our common patterns of experience. Through our unconscious we all connect."
     - James Hillman - Insearch: Psychology and Religion

53) "Since we are all one in the same Self, or the same mystical body of Christ, or the same Dharmakaya, then in serving others I am serving my own Self."
     - Ken Wilber - Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

54) "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'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

55) "Who are you who go about to save them that are lost? Are you saved yourself?.... Be sure, very sure, that each one of these can teach you as much as, probably more than, you can teach them. Have you then sat humbly at their feet, and waited on their lips that they should be the first to speak – and been reverent before these children – whom you so little understand? Have you dropped into the bottomless pit from between yourself and them all hallucination of superiority, all flatulence of knowledge, every shred of abhorrence and loathing? Is it equal, is it free as the wind between you? Could you be happy receiving favors from one of the most despised of these?.....Arise, then, and become a savior." Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), English author, poet, 'Towards Democracy'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

56) "Any friendship – between two or between a hundred – entails a new emergent unity, where each of the constituent selves is far more in its functional oneness with the rest than it ever was in its apartness." Gregory Vlastos (b. 1909), Canadian professor of philosophy, 'The Religious Way'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

57) "When any community is devoted to the vitality of the Center of and beyond each individual, there will be no danger of damaging consensus, for the particular 'color' of the Center as it expresses itself through each personality will contribute richness to the whole. This will bring relatedness and cooperation." Elizabeth Boyden Howes, Jungian analyst, written for this anthology
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

58) "I do want to think in terms of the whole world. My patriotism includes the good of mankind in general….Isolated independence is not the goal of the world States; it is voluntary interdependence. The better mind of the world desires today not absolutely independent States, warring one against another, but a federation of friendly, interdependent States." Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian statesman, mystic
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

59) "We are inescapably all members of one another." Rose Terlin, contemporary American editor and writer, 'Christian Faith and Social Action'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

60) "The relation of each to all, through God, is real, objective, existential. It is an eternal relationship which is shared in by every stick and stone and bird and beast and saint and sinner of the universe." Thomas R. Kelly (1893-1941), American philosopher, 'A Testament of Devotion'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

61) "Eros is the same Spirit-in-action that originally threw itself outward to create a vast morphogenetic field of wondrous possibilities (known as the Great Nest). Out of itself, as matter, it began; out of itself, as life, it continued; out of itself, as mind, it began to awaken. The same Spirit-in-action differentiated itself into modes of the good and the true and the beautiful, as it continued its evolutionary play. And it is now the same Spirit-in-action, starting to become collectively conscious of itself, that has initiated an era of integral embrace – global village to communications internet to integral theories to network society."
     - Ken Wilber - Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy

62) "Each life form constitutes a part in larger groups and systems. Animals form colonies, schools, flocks, and herds, and belong to families and species. Individual humans are parts of a family, clan, tribe, culture, nation, gender, race, and so on. Living organisms – plants, animals, and humans – belong to various ecosystems that have developed within the biosphere of our planet. In the complex dynamic structure of the universe, each constituent part is a separate entity, as well as a member of a larger whole. Individuality and participation in a broader context are dialectically combined and integrated."
     - Stanislav Grof - The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

63) "What we encounter in everyday life are not discrete individuals and solid objects, but integral aspects of a unified energetic field."
     - Stanislav Grof - The Cosmic Game, Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

64) "Mankind is interdependent and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and last lesson." Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), 'The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality'
     - Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors - The Quotable Spirit

65) "People will join together in clusters in their communities, towns, and villages, connecting up with other groups around the world via a network created by the lot of them and facilitated by today's communication technologies."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

66) "We are all roommates, cohabitating in a universe of unbroken wholeness."
     - Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D. - Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide

67) "Love breaks down every barrier, and fuses diverse groups in union….Love gathers all to itself, and carries all on with itself, welding separated units into a unified homogeneous whole."
     - Alice A. Bailey - A Treatise on White Magic

68) "United we stand, divided we fall." Aesop (620-560 bce), Greek author, 'The Four Oxen and the Lion'
     - George Seldes, compiler - The Great Thoughts

69) "We must discover a new respect for what transcends us: for the universe, for the earth, for nature, for life, and for reality. Our respect for other people, for other nations, and for other cultures, can only grow from a humble respect for the cosmic order and from an awareness that we are a part of it, that we share in it and that nothing of what we do is lost, but rather becomes part of the eternal memory of Being." Vaclav Havel (b. 1936), Czech playwright, President of the Czech Republic, commencement address, Harvard University, June 8, 1995
     - George Seldes, compiler - The Great Thoughts

70) "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'
     - George Seldes, compiler - The Great Thoughts

71) "See to it that you deal with patience and forbearance with those of your brothers who…sacrifice the good of the group for their own personal ends or who use unworthy methods. Give to them love and care and a ready helping hand, for they will stumble on the way and sound the depth of the law. Stand ready then to lift them up and to offer to them opportunities for service, knowing that service is the great healer and teacher."
     - Alice A. Bailey - A Treatise on White Magic

72) "If men carried the concept of brotherhood with all its implications into the life and work of every day, whether between the capitalist and the labourer, the politician and the people, between nation and nation, or between race and race, there would emerge that peace on earth which nothing could upset or overturn."
     - Alice A. Bailey - A Treatise on White Magic

73) "The heart of humanity is sound and out of the present chaos and perhaps largely because of it, there will emerge those competent to deal with the situation and adequate to the task of unification and synthesis."
     - Alice A. Bailey - A Treatise on White Magic

74) "In order to grow and survive we need to uncover some common ground to talk about what we're experiencing from our unique viewpoints. We need to develop a means of communicating with one another that is sensitive to - and even tolerant of - contrasting points of view. Our talking must 'take into account', rather than talk in defense.
     - Todd Siler - Breaking the Mind Barrier

75) "Synthesis dictates the trend of all the evolutionary processes today; all is working towards larger unified blocs, towards amalgamations, international relationships, global planning, brotherhood, economic fusion, the free flow of commodities everywhere, interdependence, fellowship of faiths, movements based upon the welfare of humanity as a whole, and ideological concepts which deal with wholes and which militate against division, separation and isolation."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Rays and The Initiations

76) "In the coming new cycle the emphasis will be upon group work and activity, upon group initiation and group approach to the Center of Life."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Rays and The Initiations

77) "Seek those new attitudes and those new creative approaches which will result not alone in the building of the individual, but also in the fusion of the many 'radiant strands' which will produce those 'connecting cables', speaking symbolically, which will relate the planetary centres and present the medium along which can pass the fiery will and the predetermined purpose of Deity. This will bring about the reconstruction of the manifested worlds, and in this task each and every one of you can have his share."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Rays and The Initiations

78) "The broad sympathies and discerning insight needed for the healing of earthly woes cannot flow from a mere intellectual consideration of human diversities, but from knowledge of men's deepest unity – kinship with God."
     - Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi

79) "What is required is that we unite with others, in order that all may complement and aid one another through holding together."
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - I Ching or The Book of Changes

80) "Water flows to unite with water, because all parts of it are subject to the same laws. So too should human society hold together through a community of interests that allows each individual to feel himself a member of a whole."
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - I Ching or The Book of Changes

81) "Everyone you meet is your mirror."
     - Ken Keyes, Jr. - Handbook to Higher Consciousness

82) "A conscious being knows that life always works best when we operate from a loving space that lets us receive and experience other people (no matter what they do or say) as no different from ourselves."
     - Ken Keyes, Jr. - Handbook to Higher Consciousness

83) "We can no longer hold our loves at home and project our aggressions elsewhere; for on this spaceship Earth there is no 'elsewhere' any more. And no mythology that continues to speak or to teach of 'elsewheres' and 'outsiders' meets the requirement of this hour."
     - Joseph Campbell - Myths To Live By

84) "The requirement of today is becoming more and more obvious. It is the recognition that the world is so small and so tightly interlocked, that the community, the actual community, is a world community." Joseph Campbell
     - Phil Cousineau, editor - The Hero's Journey

85) "The apprehension of the intrinsic interconnectedness of all leads organically to a compassion for all, especially in the concrete existential situations of life as we meet others each day. Simply put, when we realize we are all in this together, our kindness and understanding grows. We are all related; we are all responsible for one another."
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

86) "One of the goals of life is to learn the value of community, of interconnectedness, our oneness in the Divine Reality."
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

87) "The coming together of the planet as one community cannot be stopped."
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

88) "Spirit works to bring persons together today around the Good News of humanity's power and responsibility to heal Mother Earth, to celebrate our shared existence, and to revere creation."
     - Matthew Fox - Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life

89) "Now we are moving back toward community – because we need it to happen." Gay Luce
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

90) "True community includes those we disagree with. Community building, whether on our block or across national or cultural divides, is the great work of our new millennium."
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

91) "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."
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

92) "We are not actually separate from anyone or anything; we are intimately connected with all. This is a profoundly liberating realization – an overpowering, overarching principle in every tradition."
     - Wayne Teasdale - The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion

93) "Our neighbor is not simply 'the Other.' He or she reveals to us that unifyng link which binds us together." Jay G. Williams, 'How Pleasant It Is…'
     - various - The American Theosophist

94) "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."
     - Huston Smith - The World's Religions

95) "A single sentence, uttered from your pulpits, lecterns, and rostrums, by your national congresses and your world summit leaders, could change everything. 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.' This humble utterance could begin to heal the divisions between your religions, close the gap between your political parties, curb the conflicts between your nations. With one word you could end them. 'Namaste.' God in me honors God in you. How simple. How beautiful. How wondrous, indeed."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Communion with God

96) "Human bodies are of course separate, but on a deeper level we are joined like icebergs in a common floe."
     - Huston Smith - The World's Religions

97) "Our intrinsic Unity is experienced once again when we re-member."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Communion with God

98) "And how may you seek the kingdom of heaven? By providing the kingdom of heaven to others. By BEING the kingdom of heaven, in which others may find refuge and strength. By BRINGING the kingdom of heaven, and all its blessings, to all those whose lives you touch. For what you give, you become. Always remember that. What you give, you become."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Communion with God

99) "Dream of a world in which the God and Goddess in you is never denied, and in which you never again deny the God and the Goddess in another. Let your greeting, both now and forevermore, be Namaste."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Communion with God

100) "There is no separation OF anything, FROM anything. There is only Unity. There is only Oneness."
     - Neale Donald Walsch - Communion with God

101) "Ever turn away from the imperfections of your neighbour and centre rather your attention upon your own short-comings in order to correct them and become wise." H. P. Blavatsky
     - Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors - Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony

102) "If we learn how to consciously cooperate with the creative force of planetary evolution as it is shaping up with the passage of time, mankind's age-old dream of the kingdom of heaven on earth, i.e., an internationally unified world order controlled by the power of truth, justice and love, can inevitably come true." Haridas Chaudhuri, 'The Meaning of Karma in Integral Philosophy'
     - Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors - Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony

103) "In the operation of any whole organism, every function is essential and valuable. There should be no question of 'superior' or 'inferior'….In an organic democracy every cell and organ – every individual and every healthfully operating group and situation – is equally important, necessary, and to be protected as well as valued."
     - Dane Rudhyar - Occult Preparations for a New Age

104) "There is a way to resolve the current crises and tensions our polarized nations and their conflicting political systems are experiencing. It is known by various names: the Path of Synthesis, the Third Way, the Way of the Disciple, or simply, the Way of the Soul."
     - Alan Oken - Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self

105) "The conditions of advance are these: global unity of mankind's noetic organisation or system of awareness, but a high degree of variety within that unity; love, with goodwill and full cooperation; personal integration and internal harmony; and increasing knowledge….We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our knowledge and our love." Julian Huxley
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Phenomenon of Man

106) "To reach the sun nothing less is required than the combined growth of the entire foliage. The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human – these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of ALL TOGETHER, in a direction which ALL TOGETHER can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Phenomenon of Man

107) "Look upon the world as maturing – not only in each individual or in each nation, but in the whole human race – a specific power of knowing and loving whose transfigured term is charity, but whose roots and elemental sap lie in the discovery and the love of everything that is true and beautiful in creation."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Divine Milieu

108) "Realisation of the unity of life solves problems of human relations, personal, national and international. All are one, and realisation of this fact by a sufficient number of people will bring world peace."
     - Geoffrey Hodson - Basic Theosophy

109) "Actions which help and heal others and which preserve and restore, when disturbed, the harmony of the Universe, are in accord with cosmic purpose and so produce happiness, which is moreness, fullness, and accord. One should therefore be harmonious and a harmoniser. Herein lies the individual contribution to the solution of the problem of war; for when the harmonisers become a majority peace will reign."
     - Geoffrey Hodson - Basic Theosophy

110) "Ultimately, the message of the Unity of Life will be recognised as a divine instruction, as impelling summons, an irresistible command. When this time comes there will be health for mankind and peace upon Earth."
     - Geoffrey Hodson - Basic Theosophy

111) "We are parts of a whole, and the whole must draw us as soon as we open our doors: this is grace working upon and within us."
     - Arthur Edward Waite - Lamps of Western Mysticism

112) "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?"
     - Rabbi Shoni Labowitz - Miraculous Living

113) "Within your soul are all souls."
     - Rabbi Shoni Labowitz - Miraculous Living

114) "Even if someone has wronged you, consider carefully how you speak to them, for all souls are one."
     - Rabbi Shoni Labowitz - Miraculous Living

115) "Relation is the essence of everything that is." Meister Eckhart
     - Matthew Fox - The Coming of the Cosmic Christ

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

117) "What then can we do practically to help great national affairs? This at least: that when in our presence unkind or sneering remarks are made about other nations, we can make a point of always putting forward considerations on the other side, and saying something kindly."
     - Charles W. Leadbeater - The Inner Life

118) "Life has unfolded for over three billion years in an uninterrupted process, without ever breaking the basic pattern of its self-generating networks."
     - Fritjof Capra - The Hidden Connections

119) "There are millions of interlocking and interdependent communication patterns among all the physical forms of the Earth, and with training human beings can perceive and understand those patterns of communication. It is part of our species' purpose to do so."
     - Stephen Harrod Buhner - One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality

120) "From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying force that flowed in and through all things – the flowers of the plains, blowing wind, rocks, trees, birds, animals – and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred, and were brought together by the same Great Mystery." Luther Standing Bear (Sioux Native American)
     - Stephen Harrod Buhner - One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality

121) "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
     - Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors - Living Quotations for Christians

122) "Every time we hold our tongue instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience for another's faults, show a little more love and kindness; we are helping to stockpile more of these peace-bringing qualities in the world." Constance Foster
     - John Marks Templeton - Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles

123) "Earth's multitude of human and sub-human creatures, each of them like a single cell, collectively constitute the body of one multicellular organism, mentally illuminated by the One Cosmic Mind. We are, as St. Paul perceived, all members of One Body; or, as the Mahayana [Buddhism] likewise teaches, other and self are identical."
     - W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor - The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation

124) "When we recognize our roots in the human family, we no longer feel a need to stand in judgment of others. Judgment only condemns and separates people. It places one person or group against another, whereas compassion and empathy can bring people together and promote clearer communication. 'I care about you and I want to support you' is the clear message."
     - John Marks Templeton - Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles

125) "The forces of the world are always interdependent, and by acting together produce something new and essential."
     - Richard Wilhelm - Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change

126) "Unity embraces the multiplicity of all beings."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

127) "The religious need longs for wholeness, and therefore lays hold of the images of wholeness offered by the unconscious, which, independently of the conscious mind, rise up from the depths of our psychic nature."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

128) "We shall be saved by an option that has chosen the whole."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Science and Christ

129) "The world can no longer be an agglomeration of juxtaposed objects: we must recognise it as one great whole, welded together and evolving organically."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Science and Christ

130) "The first essential is that the human units shall draw closer together, not merely under the pressure of external forces, or solely by the performance of material acts, but directly, centre to centre, through internal attraction. Not through coercion, or enslavement to a common task, but through unanimity in a common spirit. The construction of molecules ensues through atomic affinity. Similarly, on a higher level, it is through sympathy, and this alone, that the human elements in a personalized universe may hope to rise to the level of a higher synthesis."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Let Me Explain

131) "The Real incessantly reawakens us to an impassioned awareness of a wider expansion and an all-embracing unity."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

132) "Peace is the awareness of Unity."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - Writings in Time of War

133) "Just as drops of water lost within the vast sheets of oceans participate in all sorts of common chemical, thermal or capillary relationships; so, at a higher degree of reality, no living mass (whether it is the whole biosphere or a fraction of it) is conceivable… except as permeated and animated by certain forces of solidarity which bring the paricular forms into balance and control the unifying currents within the All."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Vision of the Past

134) "'Conspiration'…is the aptitude of different consciousnesses, taken in a group, to unite (by language and countless other, more obscure links) so as to constitute a single All, in which, by way of reflexion, each element is conscious of its aggregation to all the rest."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Vision of the Past

135) "A breeze is blowing through the human masses; one that draws us all by a sort of living affinity towards the splendid realization of some foreseen unity. Disputed, suspect and often scorned, unitary aspirations in politics, in thought, in mysticism, arise everywhere around us; and because their subject is not what is material and plural but what is spiritual and common to all in each one of us, no force of routine or egoism seems capable of arresting them; irresistibly they infiltrate and gradually dissolve old forms and false barriers."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Vision of the Past

136) "Feeling the impulse toward wholeness, man applies it to all that he does. It motivates his thoughts, permeates his activities, and resides in all that he constructs. In his dwellings, as in those of most of the 'primitive', pre-industrial world, there is a place, an altar, a fire, a stone that is the center, not only of the house or dwelling, but also of the entire cosmos…. We are dealing with what is essentially a SACRED principle, or a sacred state of consciousness in which all beings and all things are realized equally as emanations of One Divine Whole."
     - Jose and Miriam Arguelles - Mandala

137) "Don't blame me; talk with me. Don't withdraw from me, step toward me. Don't shun me; embrace me. Don't sue me, mediate with me. Don't assume; question. Don't let our difference blind us to our commonality."
     - Christina Baldwin - Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

138) "We are thoroughly blended into the universal energy of essential relationship – interconnectedness."
     - Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D. - Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self

139) "Even the simplest transaction – buying food at the grocery store, for example – is an intricate marvel of codependence. We are all interconnected."
     - Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D. - Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self

140) "As the Sufi sage Hazrat Inayat Khan said, 'The essence of spirituality and mysticism is readiness to serve the person next to us.'"
     - Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D. - Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self

141) "Wholeness, according to the perennial psychology, is WHAT is real and ALL that is real. A radically separate, isolated and bounded entity does not exist anywhere. There are no seams in the world, in things, in people or in God."
     - Ken Wilber - The Atman Project

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

143) "The soul that empathetically identifies with both the pain and the joy of others begins to see that in the inner world we are not separate from each other. Peace and joy, no less than pain and sorrow, are shared, collective experiences. In the inner world it becomes clear that we can choose what we want to cultivate and that help is available."
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

144) "As we become increasingly aware of our global interdependence as a species, we can also deepen awareness of our spiritual connectedness. We cannot live in total isolation. The crosscultural communion of awakened souls may be a key to cocreating a sustainable future and living in harmony with the earth."
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

145) "If I put a person on a pedestal, I feel separated and somehow less than him or her. Likewise, if I look down on someone, for whatever reason, I separate myself. It is possible to see others on the same level, not looking up or down. When I do this I can see others as equally valuable parts of the whole fabric of reality of which we are all a tiny part."
     - Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. - Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

146) "We have different roots, traditions, and ways of seeing, but we share the common qualities of love, understanding, and acceptance. For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand."
     - Thich Nhat Hanh - Living Buddha, Living Christ

147) "When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, we can see and listen deeply, and the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy."
     - Thich Nhat Hanh - Living Buddha, Living Christ

148) "When people appreciate each other as brothers and sisters and smile, the Holy Spirit is there."
     - Thich Nhat Hanh - Living Buddha, Living Christ

149) "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."
     - Thich Nhat Hanh - Living Buddha, Living Christ

150) "The whole infinity of discrete and independent souls is yet fused into a vast Whole…within the immensity of the World Soul." Dorothea Waley Singer, 'Giordano Bruno, His Life and Thought'
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

151) "Begin heart and soul to spread the teaching of universal brotherhood…universal brotherhood rests upon the common soul." H. B. Blavatsky, interview in London, 1887
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

152) "The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others." Honore de Balzac, 'Seraphita'
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

153) "Evolution, or order of process, is more than just a paradigm for the biological domain; it is a view of how a totality that hangs together in all of its interactive processes moves. This dynamic totality spans a vast spectrum from the subatomic processes to social and further on to noetic (mental and psychic) processes." Erich Jantsch, 'Evolution and Consciousness: Human Systems in Transition'
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

154) "Modern scientists have concluded that all phenomena are interrelated in complex networks of energy transformation. Teilhard deChardin's concept of the noosphere, a network of thought ecompassing the planet, is one such idea. The notion of networks of individuals who share a common interest and provide information and support to one another has enormous potential for furthering individual and social transformation."
     - Ralph Metzner - The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience

155) "In order to endure, society must be built upon a solid foundation of Brotherhood."
     - Irving S. Cooper - Reincarnation: A Hope of the World

156) "The inner Child in you connects you to the inner Child within everyone else."
     - Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

157) "There is no separation between you and me, between you and any other person…we all 'inter-are.' As my friend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, 'All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.'"
     - Thich Nhat Hanh - Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World

158) "Your neighbor is your other self dwelling behind a wall. In understanding, all walls shall fall down." Kahlil Gibran
     - Caroline Myss - Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles

159) "Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force – and of the other person's. Many spiritual traditions share the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated.'"
     - Caroline Myss - Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles

160) "Science and religion tell us that we are energetically interdependent; that matter and energy are the same throughout the universe. Our spiritual interconnectedness and intuitive signals form, in effect, an energetic Internet."
     - Caroline Myss - Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles

161) "We are all part of one spiritual family."
     - Caroline Myss - Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

162) "As groups are interdependent in a society and nations are interdependent in the world, each individual is in some ways linked with all others, and we all share in the outcome of world events." Shirley Nicholson, 'Karma as Organic Process'
     - V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors - Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony

163) "Instead of loving what you think is peace, love other men and love God above all. And instead of hating the people you think are warmakers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war."
     - Thomas Merton - Seeds of Contemplatiion

164) "God does not give us graces or talents or virtues for ourselves alone. We are members one of another and everything that is given to one member is given for the whole body."
     - Thomas Merton - Seeds of Contemplatiion

165) "In this new civilization and the emerging global culture, for the first time humanity is sufficiently developed to make a planetary, global pattern, incorporating the very best of all men and women. I think that this planetary psychosynthesis, this psychosynthesis of humanity is possible and needed. Each particular problem will then have its frame of reference in the greater whole, and conflict can be replaced by harmonious integration and cooperation. All of this is within our reach – for not only is it very beautiful – it is HUMAN." Roberto Assagioli and Claude Servan-Schreiber, 'A Higher View of the Man-Woman Problem'
     - Shirley Nicholson, Compiler - The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today

166) "We must reorder all our perceptive faculties so as to emphasize the wholeness rather than the otherness. Before we can love our neighbor as our self, we must SEE our neighbor as our self." Beatrice Bruteau, 'The Unknown Goddess'
     - Shirley Nicholson, Compiler - The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today

167) "Humanity will pursue and bring about its own rebirth by uniting in caring, understanding, and tolerance of individual differences."
     - Joe Fisher - The Case for Reincarnation

168) "We all share the same pool of genes. Each of us has as ancestors Europeans, Africans, Chinese, Arabs, Malays, Latins, Eskimos, and every possible type of human being. Students of genetics are forced to believe in human brotherhood. Each of us is literally kin to humankind; we are all the family of man."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

169) "Though each of us is a unique individual, we make up one humanity, our divisions into nations and groups of nations are less fundamental than our oneness."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

170) "The vision of an emergent planetary culture involves the broadening and deepening of our individual and collective perspectives and assumptions so that we embrace ourselves as a species, as humankind, rather than as separate factions." David Spangler, 'Revelations: The Birth of A New Age'
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

171) "We desperately need a unifying world view to help heal the world's endless fractures. What problems could not be solved by first considering the good of the whole, of the lives of all those on our planet, rather than special interests!"
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

172) "Behind the surface separation and supporting the seemingly disparate things is a unity more basic, more real, closer to us than our sense impressions,…mystics agree with physicists that this unitary realm is primary, that the divisions ultimately rest on a unitary background."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

173) "If enough of us can perceive the new view of wholeness emerging in our times and absorb it into our consciousness so that it permeates our world view, and hence our attitudes and actions, our new vision cannot help but reflect in world attitudes and conditions. As we ourselves become whole and live as intrinsic parts of the Whole, we can begin to re-establish wholeness in our tragically fragmented and divided world."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

174) "Support for the concept of interrelatedness is emerging from all sides. This idea, strange and foreign a hundred years ago, is becoming more and more important in modern thought."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

175) "Indeed, as proclaimed by all great religious convictions, a unity characterizes this emergent mind and the basic order of the universe." Karl Pribram, 'What The Fuss Is All About'
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

176) "During this dawning of our awakening as a species we will see the strangers in us disappear and the lovely oneness of our being open up to let in the light of true love and acceptance of all life and All There Is."
     - Iris Belhayes - Spirit Guides

177) "When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us." Marcus Aurelius
     - Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler - One Thousand Inspirational Things

178) "Each individual life is as special as a note on a musical score where…each fills a designated space….When such individual musical notes are played together, a melody emerges; when nature, including man, responds appropriately through the intertwining of all its unique vibrations, harmony of life emerges."
     - Meredith L. Young - Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era

179) "The right to live with mutual consideration and respect needs to be the newly-forged path of an aware society."
     - Meredith L. Young - Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era

180) "Man must work toward the areas of shared brotherhood, focusing on the similarities of spiritual pursuit rather than the differences."
     - Meredith L. Young - Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era

181) "The soul is group-conscious."
     - H. K. Challoner - Regents of the Seven Spheres

182) "Universal fellowship needs to be cultivated."
     - Flower A. Newhouse - The Kingdom of the Shining Ones

183) "We must not only bring the earth's life into balance again but bring the human family together."
     - Maria Parisen, compiler - Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power

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

185) "The Savior replied, 'Every nature, every modeled form, every creature, exists in and with each other….Anyone with two ears able to hear should listen!" The Gospel of Mary, 2:2-5
     - Karen L. King - The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle

186) "If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force."
     - Rudolf Steiner - How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

187) "We shall not allow ourselves to think of our fellow human beings in any way that is incompatible with the profound respect due their dignity and freedom."
     - Rudolf Steiner - How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

188) "Humanity is ripening towards a time of unilateral cooperation."
     - Richard Leviton - The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality

189) "Link yourself through the heart and through your inner eye of perception to all men and women of goodwill all over the world. Affirm your unity with them."
     - Alan Oken - Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self

190) "The sons and daughters of men and women are one, and I am one with them. I seek to love, not hate; I seek to serve and not exact due service; I seek to heal, not hurt." 'Mantram of Unification'
     - Alan Oken - Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self

191) "It cannot be stressed strongly enough that our tendency as the Human Race is to move to a consciousness of the relationship between the individual and the collective. This will lead to a greatly expanded awareness of the collective itself."
     - Alan Oken - Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self

192) "This focus of synthesis and unity, this resolution of dualities into greater, more inclusively loving wholes, is fundamental to the New Age."
     - Alan Oken - Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self

193) "The need to establish Right Human Relations is paramount."
     - Alan Oken - Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self

194) "Visualize the Law of Right Human Relations as two clasped hands encircling a bright, glowing planet Earth. Contemplate and consider the implications of Right Human Relations. Make a plan as to how you may demonstrate Right Human Relations individually in the world."
     - Alan Oken - Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self

195) "It is important to foster a distinct awareness of our universal brother- and sisterhood."
     - Alan Oken - Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self

196) "Arrogance comes from hanging on to the reference point of me and other."
     - Chogyam Trungpa - Shambhala

197) "Once we accept that everything exists in relationship to everything else, we learn to be respectful."
     - Tom Crockett - Stone Age Wisdom, The Healing Principles of Shamanism

198) "All living beings are members of ecological communities bound together in a network of interdependencies."
     - Fritjof Capra - The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

199) "At some level, however unconscious,…you are not separate from other human beings but share something vital with them…..love your neighbor as yourself because essentially your neighbor IS yourself."
     - Richard Smoley - Inner Christianity, A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition

200) "Life is a triumph of cooperation and creativity. Indeed, since the creation of the first nucleated cells, evolution has proceeded through ever more intricate arrangements of cooperation and coevolution."
     - Fritjof Capra - The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

201) "In the mad rush for security and peace, there is too often an escape from the person to an outer world of authority, where responsibility may be laid at the door of someone else. Yet there can be no peace that does not come from the depths of our own being, no security that does not arise from the love within, and no knowledge that does not proclaim the unity of the person in the greater community of creation."
     - Martin Israel - Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights

202) "We are one with that homeless person we saw going through the trash receptacle. The woman at the local market, the man who comes to check our gas meter, and all who have hurt us, abandoned us, and have otherwise wronged us, along with all the women and men we have never met – we are to realize that we are equally, fully one with every blessed one of them."
     - James Finley - Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God

203) "Grounded in self-knowledge, I am grounded in awareness of oneness with you at a level that precedes and transcends the differences between us. I know you with an empathic, heartfelt knowledge of what it means to be a human being."
     - James Finley - Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God

204) "Every time you compassionately engage with another person, your reason for being on this world in honored and expressed."
     - James Finley - Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God

205) "A serious attempt to know any individual will reveal qualities within him that are admirable, even lovable."
     - Norman Vincent Peale - The Power of Positive Thinking and The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

206) "Pursue the line of conduct marked out by the strictest integrity, as regards the interests of the whole." Last words of Lorenzo de Medici (d. 1492), poet and prince of Florence, Italy
     - Herbert Lockyer - Last Words of Saints and Sinners

207) "Your neighbor is every man….He is your neighbor on the basis of equality with you before God;…this equality absolutely every man has, and he has it absolutely."
     - Soren Kierkegaard - Works of Love

208) "One's neighbour is all men, unconditionally every human being."
     - Soren Kierkegaard - Works of Love

209) "Everyone is one's neighbour."
     - Soren Kierkegaard - Works of Love

210) "Every man is your neighbor. In being king, beggar, scholar, rich man, poor man, male, female, etc., we do not resemble each other – therein we are all different. But in being a neighbour we are all unconditionally like each other."
     - Soren Kierkegaard - Works of Love

211) "As Aristotle says, 'man is a civic animal', wherefore he is required not only to be useful to himself but also to others." Dante
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

212) "All individuals are continually reinforced and carried on, beyond their average immediate consciousness, by the knowledge, resources, and energy which surround them in the social order." Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923), British philosopher
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

213) "The world is one world. Humanity is one unit in the evolutionary process."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Externalization of the Hierarchy

214) "The many aspects of human unfoldment and differentiation produce one noble whole, and all the parts of this whole are interdependent."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Externalization of the Hierarchy

215) "The produce of the world, the natural resources of the planet and its riches, belong to no one nation but should be shared by all."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Externalization of the Hierarchy

216) "Today we are told that atoms are not impenetrable – they are more like bubbles than like billiard balls and their linking up is what forms molecules, whose linking up forms cells, whose linking up forms organisms, whose linking up forms communities. Behold! Now we have a basis in physics once again to honor community."
     - Matthew Fox - One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths

217) "Instant by instant the unvierse creates itself as a bonded community. To hear how omnipresent community is in the universe is to encourage our own difficult steps in community-building. The effort at community is an effort to imitate the universe. Therefore, it is a good effort. Therefore, it cannot fail."
     - Matthew Fox - One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths

218) "Self-sacrificing and forgiving compassion are the ultimate fulfillment of person-in-community and the ultimate revelation of the character of God." Martin Luther King
     - Matthew Fox - One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths

219) "There is a fundamental structure of interrelatedness and interdependability inherent in all living things, at microscopic levels of existence and in human society….The origin and goal of community, therefore, is the Mind of God, which is coming to Itself in time." Walter E. Fluker
     - Matthew Fox - One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths

220) "The seven principles that form the basis of Kwanza celebration all center around community. They include the following: self-determination for the community; collective work and responsibility; cooperative economics; the collective vocation of building the community; and creativity whose purpose is 'to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.'"
     - Matthew Fox - One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths

221) "The impetus toward community is here and it is not going to leave us. Many of us are feeling a growing restlessness that has to do with dreams of new ways of living….We want clear air and space to be, work, breathe and live. This alongside the sense that we belong together as soul friends."
     - Jay Ramsay - Alchemy, The Art of Transformation

222) "We will see how we are a tribe and a company, in circle after circle rippling out and intersecting. We will see how we are all entering each other – as gifts to each other, mirroring and completing each other: and how we are all unique angles on the centre."
     - Jay Ramsay - Alchemy, The Art of Transformation

223) "The next step in the development of further evolution is the achievement of higher group consciousness….throughout the world."
     - John C. Lilly, M.D. - The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space

224) "Man's future lies with aware courageous informed knowledgeable experienced individuals in a loosely coupled exploratory communicating network. Such a network exists and functions beautifully with gentle effectiveness throughout this planet."
     - John C. Lilly, M.D. - The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space

225) "As those illumined ancients pointed out long ago, all life is innately equipped to speak with all life whenever minds and hearts are properly attuned."
     - J. Allen Boone - Kinship With All Life

226) "It can seem as if the world is falling to pieces….and yet the call keeps coming, a call, I think, which is not so much to power as to community with all those others who are wounded, whose worlds or lives also seem to be falling apart, and yet who are actually – we must believe – giving birth to something new." Veronica Brady, Australian writer
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

227) "Only in community can humanity reflect God and fulfil the image of God in which we were created for mutual relationship." Chung Hyun Kyung, Korean theologian
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

228) "We can only grow as people by living in relationships, by in-depth communication, and by orientating ourselves towards justice and charity. Through this attitude we learn to live in 'correct proportions'." Catharina J. M. Halkes, Dutch Feminist theologian
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

229) "The most basic of all works of love [is] the work of human communication, of caring and nurturance, of tending the personal bonds of community." Beverly Wildung Harrison, American social ethicist
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

230) "Our contemporaries aspire after a complete unity of all peoples: one world. They are quite right." Editors
     - St. Augustine - The City of God

231) "The whole world, from its beginning until its final term, has as its unique end the constitution of a holy Society, in view of which everything has been made, even the universe itself." Editors
     - St. Augustine - The City of God

232) "As Cicero conceived it, every society should resemble a symphonic concert, in which the different notes of the instruments and voices blend into a final harmony." Editors
     - St. Augustine - The City of God

233) "Indeed, all of us together, and each one in particular, constitute God's temple, because He deigns to take for a dwelling both the community of all and the person of each individual."
     - St. Augustine - The City of God

234) "There are no others 'out there.'….There is only the Person in the unity of perfect love which is God."
     - James Finley - Merton's Palace of Nowhere

235) “To live rightly in any community, we have to let go of the idea that our will is always supreme. We need to be attentive to the needs and insights of others, and be willing at times to sacrifice our personal preferences for the sake of the common good.”
     - Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M. - Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings

1) "We hold these truths to be self-evident: All people are born creative, and endowed by our creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world." Barbara Marx Hubbard, Futurist
     - Sally Mahe and Kathy Covert - A Greater Democracy Day by Day

2) "God has shared the divinity with the littlest among us. That is spiritual democracy. And to internalize it (make it our own), to reflect on it, and to live with it, learning to breathe the truth of it – this will make new people of us. A people truly rooted in the spiritual attitude of sharing. Of democracy. Of becoming like God. Of appreciating the We."
     - Matthew Fox - WHEE! We, wee All the Way Home

3) "Who are you who go about to save them that are lost? Are you saved yourself?.... Be sure, very sure, that each one of these can teach you as much as, probably more than, you can teach them. Have you then sat humbly at their feet, and waited on their lips that they should be the first to speak – and been reverent before these children – whom you so little understand? Have you dropped into the bottomless pit from between yourself and them all hallucination of superiority, all flatulence of knowledge, every shred of abhorrence and loathing? Is it equal, is it free as the wind between you? Could you be happy receiving favors from one of the most despised of these?.....Arise, then, and become a savior." Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), English author, poet, 'Towards Democracy'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

4) "In the operation of any whole organism, every function is essential and valuable. There should be no question of 'superior' or 'inferior'….In an organic democracy every cell and organ – every individual and every healthfully operating group and situation – is equally important, necessary, and to be protected as well as valued."
     - Dane Rudhyar - Occult Preparations for a New Age

5) "In the prison One shall come; and the chains which are stronger than iron, the fetters harder than steel, shall dissolve – you shall go free forever." Edward Carpenter, 'Towards Democracy'
     - Richard M Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness

6) "All that you have within you, all that your heart desires, all that your Nature so specially fits you for – that or the counterpart of it waits embedded in the great Whole for you. It will surely come to you." Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), English author, 'Towards Democracy'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

1) "Each 'separate thing' is not so much an aspect of the whole as it is itself the whole."
     - Ken Wilber - Spectrum of Consciousness

2) "God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." Empedocles (490-430 BCE), fragment
     - Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors - The Quotable Spirit

3) The Tahirih Path, point No. 1 (This path needs no formalization as it follows natural cosmic order.) 1 The coming of the Cycle of Balance and Harmony Individual application: I have been born into a time of transformation where separation is fast losing being the paradigm for humanity. As I understand that separation is not the ultimate truth and that connection with all that is, is the reality, it becomes ever more necessary to come into balance physically, mentally, and spiritually for my own advancement so that I may more readily plug into the divine energy. As an individual, when my male and female aspects are more balanced in my thoughts, the interplay between the two within myself allows me to reach a more peaceful frame of mind as I can understand the variety of characteristics in both, use the characteristics that best serve the situation, and no longer be in direct conflict with the duality and separation resulting from being out of balance. Thus my existence is more harmonious. Bringing my thinking and thoughts into balance in turn bring my physical body into balance by producing the hormones that are necessary for healthful happy responses to life. When my body and mind come into balance I can connect more easily with the Cosmic Spiritual Laws and then I personally become more attuned to those laws and realize my harmony and connection with the whole of creation. Collective Outcomes: Collectively the world is entirely out of balance in that it has been predominately the male patriarchal effects that are now dominant and the feminine attributes and spirit long forgotten. Almost everything that is being developed is being done through force which causes a natural imbalance: thus creating the weak and the strong; the poor and the rich; the slave and the ruler; the uneducated and the educated; and so forth. When society is more balanced the extremes resulting from force will be lessened whereby people will be able to work more harmoniously on the city, state, nation, and world arenas. Without the feminine spirit operating equally in the world a continuous state of war and strife will prevail. When society is in balance force will start to naturally change to operate through magnetic attraction which will create dramatic changes in the socio-political environment. Therefore, all creations will be the outcome of working on the 'love' vibration and in order to interact in the society the individual will have to be using this vibration to exist within it. This natural mandatory level of interaction almost entirely rules out crime and dysfunction.
     - Starr* Saffa - Tahirih TheAlogy: Female Cosmic Christ Spirit of the Age

4) "The entire system of things gets represented in every particle. There is something that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea, day and night, man and woman, in a single needle of the pine, in a kernel of corn, in each individual of every animal tribe."
     - Ralph W Emerson - Essays, Poems, Addresses

5) "The essential Buddha nature is a perfect whole, without superfluity or lack…It permeates the finite realms of existence and yet remains everywhere completely whole. Thus, every single one of the myriads of phenomena in the universe is the absolute."
     - - Zen Teachings of Huang Po

6) "Man is the quintessence of all the elements, and a son of the universe or a copy in miniature of its Soul, and everything that exists or takes place in the universe, exists or may take place in the constitution of man. The congeries of forces and essences making up the constitution of what we call man, is the same as the congeries of forces and powers that on an infinitely larger scale is itself in man, and may come to his consciousness; and this circumstance enables a man who knows himself, to know the Universe, and to perceive not only that which exists invisibly in the Universe, but to foresee and prophesy future events. On this intimate relationship between the Universe and Man depends the harmony by which the Infinite becomes intimately connected with the Finite, the immeasurably great with the small. It is the golden chain of Homer, or the Platonic ring." Paracelsus
     - Manly P. Hall - Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

7) "Heraclitus was perhaps the first in the European tradition to recognize the Unity in the Manifold…More than 2000 years after Heraclitus, Descartes - following Dionysius, Ibn al-Farid, Aquinas, and Nicholas of Cusa - carried over into modern thought the idea of a unity inclusive of the full complexity of manyness, a unity which is not a one in many, but a oneness of the many. In the history of religious thought, both in the East and in the West, there have been periods in which the conception of Oneness played an essential part. In the Bhagavad Gita, Brahman speaks of the countless gods that are 'only My million faces', while, in the Christian West, the cosmopolitan syncretism of the third century recognized all separate national gods as merely varied expressions of the One. In the medieval period a strong sense of ultimate unity pervaded the writings of the great German contemplatives. This is reflected, for example, in the late fourteenth century Theologia Germanica, where we read that 'unity-with-singleness is better than manifoldness, for blessedness lies…in One.' A consciousness of the close relationship of the One and the Manifold finds expression in more recent German philosophy. Hegel has been interpreted as regarding the Absolute as the ultimate form of Unity…..Nicholas of Cusa suggests that all things are in all. Plotinus had also recognized 'the whole in all, and in every part the whole.' Eckhart applied the conception to human personality in his memorable saying: 'man must always do one thing, he cannot do them all. He must always be one thing and in that one find all.' moreover, carrying this idea to another level, he wrote: 'The nature of the soul is such that where she is at all there she is altogether…So is the Godhead in all places and in all existences and in each wholly."
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8) "In this Intelligible World everything is transparent. No shadow limits vision. All the essences see and interpenetrate each other in the most intimate depth of their nature. Light everywhere meets light. Every being contains within itself the entire Intelligible World, and also beholds it entire in any particular being."
     - Plotinus - Enneads

9) "The science of mathematics is one of the gates which lead to a knowledge of the substance of the soul. This knowledge is the beginning of science, the constituent element of wisdom, and the root of the practical and theoretical arts." Al-Mukammas' (c. 937), Babylonian philosopher
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

10) "We must not despise the science of numbers, which in many passages of holy Scripture, is found to be of eminent service to the careful interpreter. Ignorance of numbers prevents us from understanding things that are set down in Scripture in figurative and mystical ways."
     - St. Augustine - The City of God

11) "To recognize is to compare the sense perception outside with the original pictures inside, and to judge that it conforms to them. Proclus has expressed the matter very finely in his simile of awakening, as from a dream. For just as the sensorily presented things in the oute world recall to us those which we formerly perceived in the dream, so also the mathematical relations given in sensibility call forth those intelligible archetypes which were already given inwardly beforehand, so that they now shine forth truly and vividly in the soul." Kepler, 'Harmony of the World', quoted by Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), 'Science and the Beautiful'
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

12) "Mathematics is the archetype of the beauty of the world." Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), quoted by Werner Heisenberg in 'Science and the Beautiful'
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

13) "The significant point: every physicist in this volume was profoundly struck by the fact that the natural realm obeys in some sense the laws or forms of mathematics, or, in general, obeys some sort of archetypal mental-forms."
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

14) "From the smallest individual detail to the vastest aggregations, our living universe (in common with our inorganic universe) has a structure, and this structure can owe its nature only to a phenomenon of growth."
     - Pierre Teilhard deChardin - The Divine Milieu

15) "There may indeed be a 'mythopoeic mentality,' but it is not restricted to precivilized man, but is to be found in geniuses as different as Boehme, Kepler, Blake, Yeats, Wagner, Heisenberg…Myth is not an early level of human development, but an imaginative description of reality in which the known is related to the unknown through a system of correspondences in which mind and matter, self, society, and cosmos are integrally expressed in an esoteric language of poetry and number." William Irwin Thompson, 'At The Edge of History'
     - Cranston/Head, editors - Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery

16) "The very numbers you use in counting are more than you take them to be. They are at the same time mythological elements (for the Pythagoreans, they were even divine). Carl Jung
     - Carl Jung - Man and His Symbols

17) "The number one is equivalent to the 'Centre', to the non-manifest point, to the creative power of the 'unmoved mover'.
     - Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts - Tarot Revelations

18) "The spiritual origin of all matter is hinted at in the theories of modern physics when the subatomic constituents of matter are described as nothing more than mathematical structures, essentially mental." James H. Hindes, contemporary American philosopher and author
     - Maria Parisen, compiler - Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power

19) "It is not such an audacious conclusion after all if we define number psychologically as an archetype of order which has become conscious (cf. 'On the Psychology of Eastern Meditation', par. 942). Remarkably enough, the psychic images of wholeness which are spontaneously produced by the unconscious, the symbols of the self in mandala form, also have a mathematical structure. They are as a rule quaternities (or their multiples). These structures not only express order, they also create it. That is why they generally appear in times of psychic disorientation in order to compensate a chaotic state or as formulations of numinous experiences."
     - Carl Jung - Synchronicity, An Acausal Principle

20) "Hahnemann's discoveries (homeopathy) revive the Medieval doctrine of correspondentia, namely the idea of connection by a context of analogy. Aristotle called it 'formal causation'….It may indeed carry a heuristic value if applied according to holistic, specific gestalt principles – that is, by comparing not single random details or superficial appearances but basic and essential functionalities. The homeopathic experience points to a vast, hitherto unrecognized network of correlations between form, function and behavior as well as outer-world and human forms and functional dynamics. These correspondences which we are barely beginning to discover clearly suggest common functional denominators and patterns underlying the human microcosm and outer macrocosm in mutual analogy and reflection."
     - Edward C. Whitmont, MD - The Alchemy of Healing

21) "The ancients lived in a world in which the primitive association of man's life with the earth and plant and animal life was axiomatic, in which…the Universe itself was a rational living being, in which man by his good deeds might be elevated to a..stage on the path to divinization. This comprehensive cosmic consciousness made what Emerson calls 'the linked purpose of the whole' the object both of speculative and religious thought, which derived from this universal kinship the postulate that like is apprehended by like in a harmony in which Plato said that God Himself 'geometrizes'.
     - Samuel Angus - The Mystery Religions and Christianity

22) "Modern physics has definitely decided for Plato. For the smallest units of matter are, in fact, not physical objects in the ordinary sense of the word; they are forms, structures, or – in Plato's sense – Ideas, which can be unambiguously spoken of only in the language of mathematics." Werner Heisenberg, cited in Sheldrake's 'The Presence of the Past'
     - Dudley Young - Origins of the Sacred

23) "That there is something beyond the borderline, beyond the frontiers of knowledge, is shown by the archetypes and most clearly of all, by numbers, which this side of the border are quantities but on the other side are autonomous psychic entities, capable of making qualitative statements which manifest themselves in a priori patterns of order." 'Flying Saucers: a Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

24) "Geometry (in Masonry) is synonymous with self-knowledge, the understanding of the basic substance of our being, its properties and potentialities."
     - W. L. Wilmshurst - The Meaning of Masonry

25) "Each line has significance, all numbers have their interpretation and all forms are symbols of an inner quality and life."
     - Alice A. Bailey - Glamour, A World Problem

26) "It is only the pattern with its message that proves really vital to life. On the ocean one could make the analogy that it is not the saltwater but the abstract energy that shapes and powers the wave. Likewise it is not the atoms in DNA but their geometric relation that makes the gene."
     - Guy Murchie - Seven Mysteries of Life, An Exploration in Science and Philosophy

27) "God formed things as they first arose according to forms and numbers." Plato, 'Timaeus'
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - Isis Unveiled

28) "Acknowledging the mathematically elegant intellectual integrity of eternally regenerative Universe is one way of identifying God." Buckminster Fuller, 'Theology Versus Science: Regarding Some Familiar and Not-So-Familiar Cosmic Principles'
     - Dora Kunz, Executive Editor - American Theosophist, The

29) "The events and stories of our individual lives can be seen as small but potent fractals of the great fractal, which is the infinite mirroring of the soul of the world. What are fractals? Fractals are repetitions of the same general patterns, even the same details, at both ascending and descending scales. They tell us that the universe and all that it contains is made up of folded realities within self-similar worlds."
     - Jean Houston - A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story

30) "Photographs taken through electron microscopes and far-ranging telescopes reveal that images from vastly different scales evoke a feeling of similarity and recognition. A spiral nebula that measures hundreds of light-years across looks remarkably similar to something that measures a thousandth of a centimeter, say the eye of a firefly. One can be seen as the fractal resonance of the other, the resonance of the microcosm to the macrocosm."
     - Jean Houston - A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story

31) "The I Am is the supreme fractal wave from which everything branches, out of which everything comes forth. We bear its signature in the wave forms of our cells, the curvings of our histories."
     - Jean Houston - A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story

32) "The ancient metaphor of Indra's net and the modern formulations of quantum physics remind us that we are all woven together."
     - Jean Houston - The Search for the Beloved

33) "God is like a skillful geometrician." Sir Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici', Pt. 1, sec. 16
     - Frank S Mead, editor - Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations

34) "God acts the part of a Geometrician….His government of the world is no less exact than His creation of it." John Norris, 'Practical Discourses'
     - Frank S Mead, editor - Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations

35) "At the mathematical level of the geometrical patterns of the Fibonacci series that we observe when cells come together, we see Plato's 'intelligible realm'. The math, not simply the meat, brings us to the threshold of another domain, an ontological realm in which principles of self-organization from noise allow new modes of being to emerge. The coordinated cells begin to become overlaid by mathematical patterns, states of being whose form of 'incarnation' is not meat but math."
     - William Irwin Thompson - Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness

36) "Philosophy is written in this grand book – I mean the universe – which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth." Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), 'Il Saggiatore'
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

37) "Plato speaks of a mathematical intuition by which we perceive the structure of reality. It was through insight of this kind that Sir Isaac Newton was given his monumental vision of the order within the cosmos. Kurt Godel speaks of the insight through which we can perceive the truths of mathematics and compares this to Plato's understanding of how we encounter the Ideas. This 'seeing through' ordinary reality, if carried far enough, can bring us to a religious understanding."
     - Morton T. Kelsey - Companions on the Inner Way

38) "From the intrinsic evidence of his creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician." Sir James Jeans (1877-1946), British scientist, 'The Mysterious Universe'
     - George Seldes, compiler - The Great Thoughts

39) "Mathematics possesses not only truth, but some supreme beauty." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British mathematician, philosopher, 'Mysticism and Logic'
     - George Seldes, compiler - The Great Thoughts

40) "As to the word 'God',…it is a floating literary symbol, with a value which, if we define it scientifically, becomes quite algebraic." George Santayana (1863-1952), Spanish-born American philosopher, 'Reason in Society'
     - George Seldes, compiler - The Great Thoughts

41) "If we know the main sections, the basic actions, the central pillar of mathesis in number and quality, so we know for certain that the same number and quality of basic actions, main sections, must recur in nature." L. Oken, 'Abriss des Systems der Biologie'
     - Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors - Modern Esoteric Spirituality

42) "The fundamental unity and coherence of the universe are displayed most impressively in the order that pervades all of nature, not only in the uniformity of physical laws but also in the musical and mathematical proportions of all natural forms, from crystals and plants to spiral galaxies. This Pythagorean/Platonic conception of an underlying harmonic order is revealed in the persistent geometry of dynamic form." Emily B. Sellon and Renee Weber, 'Theosophy and The Theosophical Society'
     - Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors - Modern Esoteric Spirituality

43) "Every soul is according to number.." Secrets of Enoch, ch. LVII, v. 7
     - various - The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden

44) "By weight, and measure, and rule was all the creation made." The Testament of Naphtali, ch. I, v. 15b
     - various - The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden

45) "It is very likely that in nature a marvellous mysticity of numbers is at work, and in history also. Is not everything of significance, symmetry and strange connection? Can God not reveal Himself as well in mathematics as in other sciences?" Novalis
     - Kurt Seligmann - The History of Magic and the Occult

46) "A mathematical concept or a moral concept may lead as certainly toward a sense of beauty as may a strictly aesthetic one."
     - Richard Guggenheimer - Creative Vision for Art and for Life

47) "The zero concept is not only a mathematical discovery, but was originally conceived as a symbol of Brahman. Zero is not a single cipher, positive or negative (growth and decay), but the unifying point of indifference and the matrix of the All and the None. Zero produces all figures, but it is itself not limited to certain value….Zero is the transition-point between opposites, it symbolizes the true balance within divergent tendencies." Betty Heimann, 'Facets of Indian Thought'
     - Todd Siler - Breaking the Mind Barrier

48) "Number gives the clue to the form and purpose of the life which the form veils."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Rays and The Initiations

49) "There is present in all objects and in the universe as a whole a hidden principle of measure and harmony."
     - Jacques Maritain - An Introduction to Philosophy

50) "Oneness or unity encompasses all numbers, and all numbers should be reduced back to unity."
     - Valentin Tomberg - Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition

51) "Mathematics has more than once proved that its purely logical constructions which transcend all experience subsequently coincided with the behaviour of things. This, like the events I call synchronistic, points to a profound harmony between all forms of existence."
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

52) "I predict – and I am by no means alone – that one of the most exciting growth areas of twenty-first-century science will be bio-mathematics. The next century will witness an explosion of new mathematical concepts, of new KINDS of mathematics, brought into being by the need to understand the patterns of the living world." Ian Stewart, mathematician
     - Fritjof Capra - The Hidden Connections

53) "Whole numbers may well be the discovery of God's 'primal thoughts.'"
     - Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors - C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961

54) "The universe can be best pictured though still very imperfectly and inadequately, as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what we must describe as a mathematical thinker." James H. Jeans
     - Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors - Living Quotations for Christians

55) "There appears to be deep-hidden in the unconscious, awaiting favourable opportunity to come forth into the conscious, a transcendent geometrical symmetry, like that referred to by the Greek philosophers in such aphorisms as 'God geometrizes', or 'The Universe is founded on number'; and, also, a divine beauty and perfect harmony."
     - W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor - The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation

56) "For Plotinus as for the Pythagoreans The One is, statically, the unity by which all number is intelligible, and, dynamically, the unity whence and whither all multiplicity moves." Elmer O'Brien, S.J., translator
     - Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J. - The Essential Plotinus

57) "Nature itself rests on an internal foundation of archetypal principles symbolized by numbers, shapes, and their arithmetic and geometric relationships."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

58) "Scientists confirm with formulas what ancient seers knew through revelation: that the world's patterns and cycles are harmonious when seen as mathematical relationships…Where we see 'things', nouns and discrete objects, the ancient mathematical philosophers saw PROCESSES, verbs, transforming patterns meshed harmoniously."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

59) "The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty." Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948), Scottish zoologist, classical scholar
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

60) "Geometric construction can be used as a form of meditation. Ponder the point as a seed enfolding a sacred mystery."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

61) "Number should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both within and without." Marie Louise vonFranz
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

62) "A common theme in worldwide mythology is the human as microcosm, a miniature model of the whole universe…this view was long considered a key to the understanding of the Self. The ancient philosophers saw their inner lives arranged according to nature's own harmonies, for in nature, geometry, and their spiritual lives they discovered the same principles."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

63) "The perfection of mathematical beauty is such that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent." Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

64) "Numbers, as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential." Marie-Louise vonFranz, Jungian psychologist and writer
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

65) "The simple beauty of a crystal is, in part, its strict mathematical order. Through the study of number and shape we begin to apprehend the cosmic order."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

66) "The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the form of beauty." John Mitchell (b. 1933), English geometer and philosopher
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

67) "Cognizance of harmony in nature and mathematics attunes us to harmony at our own core."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

68) "In what way can a mathematical ratio permeate our souls? Through beauty. A deep part of ourselves recognizes in flowers and dancers the beauty of the mathematical infinite and sees in it the endlessness of our own depths. Natural beauty resonates with the archetypal nature within us."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

69) "The archetypal principles of number manifest themselves as forms around us. Circles and spheres, triangles, squares, pentagons, spirals, and the five Platonic volumes represent principles that shape the world."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

70) "The manifest cosmos is an approximation of its mathematical ideal."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

71) "There is a discernible relationship between numbers and the sacred mysteries at the heart of creation."
     - John King - The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers

72) "Numbers have been part of our thinking since before we lived in caves. There is not a single religion, past or present, which fails to attribute a special significance to some number or group of numbers."
     - John King - The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers

73) "Numbers are the representations of real and eternal truths beyond space and time, and of a purposeful pattern to the universe."
     - John King - The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers

74) "Harmonious relationship…is eternally and inherently present in the universe, waiting only to be discovered or realized. There is a cosmic harmony, which is founded in the eternal perfection of number."
     - John King - The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers

75) "The whole created universe corresponds to number, and through study of number may be obtained some glimpses of the eternal and divine purpose which animates all living things."
     - John King - The Modern Numerology: A Practical Guide to the Meaning and Influence of Numbers

76) "The ancient mathematical philosophers probed into the archetypal patterns and found them in nature."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

77) "Numbers keep recurring not because we make them do so but because they are inherent in the proportions of nature that express the timeless mathematical archetypes."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

78) "The orderly process of geometric construction shows us the steps nature metaphorically uses to clothe the archetypal patterns. The geometer gradually learns to see the world of common experience as governed by laws of nature that can be understood as expressions of mathematical archetypes."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

79) "The ancients were aware of nature's geometric language and purposefully employed it in their arts, crafts, architecture, philosophy, myth, natural science, religion, and structures of society from prehistoric times through the Renaissance. The world today needs scholars and researchers who give the ancients credit for their intelligence and understanding, to view their art and entire cultures in light of its mathematical symbolism."
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

80) "The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal." William James (1842-1910), American psychologist and philosopher
     - Michael S. Schneider - A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science

81) "Down the centuries there have been those who saw in mathematics the closest approach we have to absolute truth – the furthest that our mnds can go from subjecivity. Its very structure forms a model for all other searches after absolute truth."
     - John D. Barrow - Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being

82) "Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself." Claude Bragdon
     - John D. Barrow - Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being

83) "The geometry of the archetypes and the Universal Mind are evident in the principles of symmetry which pervade nature and art. Symmetry shows us a glimpse of the ideal beauty which is reflected in nature, infusing it with order. Symmetry is universal; it can be found everywhere as the broad principle of balance and harmony."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

84) "Organisms are self-forming and also goal directed, not random. F. L. Kunz held that such self-ordering forms operate according to a principle of order, of dynamic geometry: 'The self-proportioned geometry of the living orders is the diversified expression of a consistent, universal principle.' ('Order in the Universe')."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

85) "Platonic and Pythagorean theory, which posits a mathematical basis for the physical world, offers clues as to the outworkings of the archetypes and the Divine Mind."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

86) "The hexagons of the beehive and the turtle's shell, the ram's horn, the path of a moth all embody mathematical perfection."
     - Shirley Nicholson - Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight

87) "The Universe is operated with exact mathematical precision."
     - Zolar - Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge

88) "When Plato said: 'God geometrizes', he stated a profound truth which throws much light upon the methods and mysteries of evolution."
     - C. W. Leadbeater - Freemasonry and Its Ancient Mystic Rites

89) "Those who have maintained that the position of Mathematics is a fundamental one, have drawn one of their strongest arguments from the actual constitution of things. The material frame is subject in all its parts to the relations of number. All dynamical, chemical, electrical, thermal actions seem not only to be measurable in themselves, but to be connected with each other, even to the extent of mutual convertibility, by numerical relations of a perfectly definite kind." George Boole (1815-1864), English philosopher
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

90) "The laws of thought, in all its processes of conception and of reasoning, in all those operations of which language is the expression or the instrument, are of the same kind as are the laws of the acknowledged processes of Mathematics." George Boole (1815-1864), English philosopher
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

91) "Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg delivered an address in 1970 on 'The Meaning of Beauty in the Exact Sciences." In that talk he called mathematics 'the archetype of the beauty of the world', and he invoked the philosopher Plotinus, who said 'Beauty is the translucence, through the material phenomena, of the eternal splendor of the 'One'.'"
     - Matthew Fox - One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths

92) "There is a harmony of numbers in all nature; in the force of gravity, in the planetary movements, in the laws of heat, light, electricity, and chemical affinity, in the forms of animals and plants, in the perception of the mind." 'Medical Review', July 1844
     - Helena P. Blavatsky - The Secret Doctrine

93) "Form, color and number speak aloud of the word of God."
     - Alice A. Bailey - The Light of the Soul

94) “The mathematically precise arrangement of a crystal evokes in us the intuitive feeling that even in so-called ‘dead’ matter, there is a spiritual ordering principle at work.” Marie Louise vonFranz, ‘The Process of Individuation’
     - Carl Jung - Man and His Symbols

95) “Every number preexists uniquely in the monad and the monad holds every number in itself singularly. Every number is united in the monad; it is differentiated and pluralized only insofar as it goes forth from this one.”
     - John Farina, Editor-in-Chief - Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works

1) "What we know depends on what, as moral beings, we choose to make ourselves."
     - Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy

2) The Meaning of Namaste "I honor the place in you where Spirit lives I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Truth, of Light, of Peace, when you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, then we are One." It is pronounced as "Namastay" with the first two a's as the first a in "America" and the ay as in "stay", but with the t pronounced soft with the area just behind the tip of the tongue pressing against the upper-front teeth with no air passing (as the t in "tamasha"). For Hindu(s), the greeting of choice is "Namaste," the two hands pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed as one says, "Namaste". Thus it is both a spoken greeting and a gesture, a Mantr(a) and a Mudr(a). The prayerful hand position is a Mudr(a) called Anjali, from the root Anj, "to adorn, honor, celebrate or anoint." The hands held in union signify the oneness of an apparently dual cosmos, the bringing together of spirit and matter, or the self meeting the Self. It has been said that the right hand represents the higher nature or that which is divine in us, while the left hand represents the lower, worldly nature.
     - unknown - TakeTheLeap.com

3) "He who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogma in which they all differ." Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Cauby, 18 September 1813
     - Margaret Pepper, editor - Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations

4) "All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same because it comes from God." Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary
     - Margaret Pepper, editor - Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations

5) "Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience." Albert Einstein - Out of My Later Years
     - Margaret Pepper, editor - Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations

6) "Virtue is nothing but well-directed love." St Augustine of Hippo
     - Margaret Pepper, editor - Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations

7) "There was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." Benjamin Franklin - The Busy-Body
     - Frank S Mead, editor - Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations

8) "Do what is right and just; that is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifice." - NEB
     - various - Bible

9) "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" - KJV
     - various - Bible

10) "Virtue is its own reward." Marcus Tullius Cicero - De Finibus
     - George Seldes, compiler - The Great Thoughts

11) "Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me." Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
     - George Seldes, compiler - The Great Thoughts

12) "Free will in man includes as its most relevant part man's ethical behavior." Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961) - Why Not Talk Physics?
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

13) "But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth."
     - various - Bible

14) "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." -- KJV
     - various - Bible

15) "For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another." -- KJV
     - various - Bible

16) " ... the kings of former times made firm the laws through clearly defined penalties. Penalties are the individual applications of the law. The laws specify the penalties. Clarity prevails when mild and severe penalties are differentiated, according to the nature of the crimes. This is symbolized by the clarity of lighting. The law is strengthened by a just application of penalties. This is symbolized by the terror of thunder. This clarity and severity have the effect of instilling respect; it is not that the penalties are ends in themselves. The obstructions in the social life of man increase when there is a lack of clarity in the penal codes and slackness in executing them. The only way to strengthen the law is to make it clear and make penalties certain and swift." -- # 21
     - Richard Wilhelm, translator - I Ching or The Book of Changes

17) "If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee." -- KJV
     - various - Bible

18) " ... the crucial question is, how can I eliminate action rooted in desire and cultivate action done without desire? The classical Hindu answer is simply to do what is expected of me according to my dharma, my place and role in the eternal order of things. If my karma has caused me to be born as a warrior, I should go about my duty of protecting people, not out of desire or hope for reward, but simply because it's my dharma. If I'm a woman, I should be a good woman; if a slave, I should simply serve others without desiring to be something else. The whole system worked out in the Law-code of Manu ... provides guidance for the path of action: caste, sex, and stage of life make up the essential elements of my dharma, and by performing that role properly, without desiring some reward, I move forward on the path of transformation."
     - Theodore M. Ludwig - The Sacred Paths - Second Edition

19) "And the people asked (John The Baptist), saying, What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do? And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages." -- KJV
     - various - Bible

20) "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him." -- KJV
     - various - Bible

21) The Tahirih Path, point No. 1 (This path needs no formalization as it follows natural cosmic order.) 1 The coming of the Cycle of Balance and Harmony Individual application: I have been born into a time of transformation where separation is fast losing being the paradigm for humanity. As I understand that separation is not the ultimate truth and that connection with all that is, is the reality, it becomes ever more necessary to come into balance physically, mentally, and spiritually for my own advancement so that I may more readily plug into the divine energy. As an individual, when my male and female aspects are more balanced in my thoughts, the interplay between the two within myself allows me to reach a more peaceful frame of mind as I can understand the variety of characteristics in both, use the characteristics that best serve the situation, and no longer be in direct conflict with the duality and separation resulting from being out of balance. Thus my existence is more harmonious. Bringing my thinking and thoughts into balance in turn bring my physical body into balance by producing the hormones that are necessary for healthful happy responses to life. When my body and mind come into balance I can connect more easily with the Cosmic Spiritual Laws and then I personally become more attuned to those laws and realize my harmony and connection with the whole of creation. Collective Outcomes: Collectively the world is entirely out of balance in that it has been predominately the male patriarchal effects that are now dominant and the feminine attributes and spirit long forgotten. Almost everything that is being developed is being done through force which causes a natural imbalance: thus creating the weak and the strong; the poor and the rich; the slave and the ruler; the uneducated and the educated; and so forth. When society is more balanced the extremes resulting from force will be lessened whereby people will be able to work more harmoniously on the city, state, nation, and world arenas. Without the feminine spirit operating equally in the world a continuous state of war and strife will prevail. When society is in balance force will start to naturally change to operate through magnetic attraction which will create dramatic changes in the socio-political environment. Therefore, all creations will be the outcome of working on the 'love' vibration and in order to interact in the society the individual will have to be using this vibration to exist within it. This natural mandatory level of interaction almost entirely rules out crime and dysfunction.
     - Starr* Saffa - Tahirih TheAlogy: Female Cosmic Christ Spirit of the Age

22) "Today's emergent but still sorely divided global society obviously stands in urgent need of a common ethic, a universally acceptable ideal and vision by which to live, one that might effectively foster unity beyond all differences. I believe wholeness is the very ideal which fulfills these stringent requirements - that it constitutes the global ethic par excellence. More than that, the notion of wholeness insistently beckons to us, so to speak, from all sides. And inasmuch as wholeness is neither a dogma nor an ideology but a living, dynamic, all-pervasive principle, it can be accepted by everyone. That is to say, whereas creeds and ideologies are inherently controversial, a living principle can never be that; wholeness could not raise objections or offend anyone - either believers or nonbelievers, scientists or mystics, philosophers or artists. Yet, as I have tried to demonstrate in these pages, this principle-process is profoundly sound on scientific, psychological, moral, philosophical, aesthetic, and spiritual grounds."
     - Anna F. Lemkow - The Wholeness Principle: Dynamics of Unity Within Science, Religion and Society

23) "Within man is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love."
     - Ralph W Emerson - Essays, Poems, Addresses

24) "Compared with the goodness of the age to be, all earthly goodness fulfils the role of a mirror: it contains the image of archetypal realities, not the realities themselves as they subsist in their true universal nature. Since what is divine consists in virtue and spiritual knowledge, the mirror displays the archetypes of virtue and the indistinct image reveals the archetypes of spiritual knowledge. He who has conformed his life to God's will through practice of the virtues transposes his intellect to the realm of intelligible realities by means of contemplation."
     - various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain - The Philokalia, volume 2

25) "Piety is the foundation of all virtues."
     - Marcus Tullius Cicero - Pro Onaco Plancio

26) "Conscience is the still, small voice of unremembered suffering which, long vanished from the conscious mind, yet lives in the deeper recesses of the nature, where it warns of impending catastrophe and whispers to such as will listen the standards of right and wrong as established by experience….The mentor of ages dwells within, and irrespective of our pretensions its words are audible to our inner selves…Living its own life consistent with the principle of Truth, the soul will never let us rest until our outer lives are rendered harmonious with the code within."
     - Manly P. Hall - Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

27) "Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience."
     - Albert Einstein - Out of My Later Years

28) "Virtue both creates the bond of friendship and preserves it. For in virtue is complete harmony, in her is permanence, in her is fidelity; and when she has raised her head and shown her own light, and recognized the same light in another, she moves towards it and in turn receives its beams; as a result love or friendship leaps into flame." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 bce)
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

29) "The field of ethics is life itself, and our moral task is to make this life, so far as possible, an expression of rational good-will." Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910), professor of philosophy
     - Dagobert D. Runes, editor - A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1

30) "And it seemed at that moment that I could hear an inner voice saying to me, 'Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth. And lo I will be with you, even until the end of the world.' He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone. No never alone." Martin Luther King
     - Matthew Fox - The Coming of the Cosmic Christ

31) "Virtue means nothing but acting according to the laws of our own nature." Baruch Spinoza, 'Foundations of the Moral Life'
     - Saxe Commins and Robert N. Linscott, editors - Man and Spirit, The Speculative Philosophers

32) "The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue…Moreover this activity must occupy a complete lifetime." Aristotle (384-322bc), Greek philosopher, 'Nicomachean Ethics', bk. 1, 1098a 16
     - Angela Partington, editor - Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition

33) "Free will in man includes as its most relevant part man's ethical behavior." Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961), 'Why Not Talk Physics?'
     - Ken Wilber, editor - Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists

34) "Human virtue is a participation in the divine power." Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II-II, q. 129, a. 1
     - Matthew Fox - Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality

35) "One reaches one's ultimate end by acts of the virtues, for happiness is assigned as a reward for virtue." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa contra Gentiles', III, ch. 148, n. 5
     - Matthew Fox - Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality

36) "There is no existing thing that does not have some virtue….The effects of the unfailing virtue of God proceed both to human beings and to animals, and to plants and to all natural things." Thomas Aquinas, 'Commentary on Dionysius's Divine Names', n. 751, 755
     - Matthew Fox - Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality

37) "It is not by casting about here and there, outside itself, that the soul will understand morality and ethical conduct. It knows them of its own nature, as welling out of itself." Plotinus
     - Sheldon Cheney - Men Who Have Walked With God

38) "The constructions of culture, the moral and esthetic laws that we fashion and revere, though shot through with human frailty, ignorance, and local variation, are actually fashioned in response to a divine presence always imperfectly known, but THERE to witness and measure the justice in our answer to its call."
     - Dudley Young - Origins of the Sacred

39) "Sublime virtue is profound, is immense…It will bring about a state of universal freedom." Lao Tsze (c. 604-531bc)
     - Lynette Evans, editor - Wisdom for Life

40) "The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul." 'General Aspects of Dream Psychology'
     - Carl Jung - Collected Works

41) "We do know what the virtues are through the rudimentary ways they surface in us. Ones that come immediately to mind are the Greek ternary of the good, the true, and the beautiful; India's existence, consciousness, and bliss; the creativity and compassion that Yahweh so steadfastly exemplifies; and in their full sweep, Islam's ninety-nine Beautiful Names of Allah. Christian love should not be overlooked, nor should the power that in God climaxes in omnipotence."
     - Huston Smith - Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief

42) "By his reason, man recognizes the voice of God which urges him to do what is good and avoid what is evil. Everyone is obliged to follow this law, which makes itself heard in conscience and is fulfilled in the love of God and of neighbor. Living a moral life bears witness to the dignity of the person."
     - Various - Catechism of the Catholic Church

43) "Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment….For man has in his heart a law inscribed by God….His conscience is man's most secret core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths."
     - Various - Catechism of the Catholic Church

44) "The goal of a virtuous life is to become like God."
     - Various - Catechism of the Catholic Church

45) "The moral life is a spiritual worship."
     - Various - Catechism of the Catholic Church

46) "Compassion and service are the ethical expression of Unity, awarness of the illusive nature of all that seems to separate and differentiate."
     - Robert Ellwood - Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages

47) "One can no more know oneself or the oneness of all things without knowing the anguish of myriads who are part of that web of life, and responding to their anguish as though to one's own, than one could act in a play and ignore all the other actors in their parts."
     - Robert Ellwood - Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages

48) "The great truths without which man's moral life is impossible – for example, knowledge of God's existence, the freedom of the will, etc. – belong to the domain of common sense, as consequences immediately deducible (proximate conclusions) from primary data apprehended by observation and first principles apprehended by the intellect. All people, unless spoiled by a faulty education or by some intellectual vice, possess a natural certainty of these truths."
     - Jacques Maritain - An Introduction to Philosophy

49) "In ancient times, the Greeks and Chinese, the Hebrews and the Hindus knew that virtue brings happiness."
     - Tara Singh - A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind

50) "By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship and rebels against divine truth."
     - Various - Catechism of the Catholic Church

51) "Virtue is nothing but action according to the laws of our own nature, and is the effort to preserve our being….virtue is understanding." W. H. White, Translator
     - Benedict Spinoza - Ethics

52) "Man is as surely clothed in the garments of virtue as he is in the garments of the physical; they are vehicles of his expression no less real than are the members formed of bone, flesh, or sinew."
     - Manly P. Hall - Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

53) "I know myself now, and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience." William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

54) "There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature, and of nations." Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish politician and orator
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

55) "Life really is a miracle, every moment of it, and..the only appropriate way to respond to the gift that we have been given is to be mindful of that gift at every moment and to be caring toward everyone we meet."
     - Huston Smith - Cleansing the Doors of Perception

56) "A truly ethical decision, large or small, releases me from my imprisonment in self-interest and allows me to glimpse the eternity of the self."
     - Thomas Moore - The Soul's Religion, Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life

57) "The ethic of relation of man to man is not something apart by itself: it is only a particular relation which results from the universal one." Albert Schweitzer
     - Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers - The Lion Christian Quotation Collection

58) "Moral existence is a response to the Lord's loving initiative. It is the acknowledgement and homage given to God and a worship of thanksgiving. It is cooperation with the plan God pursues in history."
     - Various - Catechism of the Catholic Church

59) "See yourself in others, then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
     - Dora Kunz, Executive Editor - American Theosophist, The

60) "The whole fabric of human society, its laws and its ethics, is based on the dignity of every human being." Theodore M. Hesburgh, priest, author, social activist, 'Making a Difference'
     - Michael Tobias, Jane Morrison, Bettina Gray, editors - A Parliament of Souls, In Search of Global Spirituality

61) "Every time we get in touch with the truth source we carry within, there is a net moral gain for all concerned."
     - Parker J. Palmer - A Hidden Wholeness, The Journey Toward An Undivided Life

62) "This is the law from the beginning, that he who would have virtue must choose it." Clement of Alexandria, 'On Spiritual Perfection'
     - John E. L. Oulton, editor - Alexandrian Christianity

63) "God made all things to be helpful for virtue." Clement of Alexandria, 'On Spiritual Perfection'
     - John E. L. Oulton, editor - Alexandrian Christianity

64) "The ten commandments not only describe the main features of the Judaeo-Christian superego but are, when broadly interpreted, a pretty good approximation of the archetypal moral sensibility of humankind."
     - Anthony Stevens - Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind

65) "Love is to the moral nature exactly what the sun is to the earth." Honore deBalzac
     - Frank S Mead, editor - Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations

66) "Follow the universal principles that are stressed in the scriptures of both East and West. Let your mind dwell on: 'What can I do for others? How can I be honest, truthful, straightforward? How can I be kind? How can I be generous and unselfish?' These are principles that lead us Godward." Sri Daya Mata, disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, 'The Soul's Need for God'
     - Eliot Jay Rosen, editor - Experiencing the Soul

67) "He who knows God is truly moral." Friedrich vonSchelling
     - Frank S Mead, editor - Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations

68) "That we must give if we are to receive is not a rule, as is so oftern supposed, in defiance of Nature. Rather all the processes of Nature reflect its unconscious action. Life could sustain its being in no other way." Hugh l'Anson Fausset (1895-1965), English critic, poet, 'Proving of Psyche'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

69) "A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." Cicero, 'Oratio Pro Cneao Plancio, XXXIII
     - Frank S Mead, editor - Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations

70) "The command to love is written in the material structure of our everyday life. Mutuality is not just a shiny ideal that catches the eye of a few idealists. It is the demand of the historic process. It is not merely a moral obligation, which can be set aside because of more urgent practical necessities. It is the most urgently practical need of our life. It is a moral obligation precisely because it is also a material necessity." Gregory Vlastos (b. 1909), Canadian professor of philosophy, 'Christian Faith and Democracy'
     - Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor - The Choice Is Always Ours

71) "Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand." Confucius (551-479 bce), 'The Confucian Analects', bk. 7:29
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

72) "What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary." Hillel (fl. 30 bce – 10 ad), from the Talmud
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

73) "Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure." Marcus Valerius Martialis (ca. 40-104), 'Epigrams', k. X, 23
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

74) "If you identify with all human beings, you will strive to treat all people fairly and compassionately, regardless of race, sex, color, or creed. If your identity expands to embrace the Kosmos, you will treat all sentient beings with respect and kindness, for they are all perfect manifestations of the same radiant Self, which is your very own Self as well. This comes to you in a direct realization of the Supreme Identity, precisely because identity can span the entire spectrum of consciousness, matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, with each expansion bringing a greater moral embrace, until the All itself is embraced with passionate equanimity."
     - Ken Wilber - Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy

75) "Peace… is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza (1632-1677), 'Theological-Political Treatise'
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

76) "Veracity is the heart of morality." Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895), 'Universities, Actual and Ideal'
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

77) "We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar….Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out." William James (1842-1910), 'The Principles of Psychology'
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

78) "A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's 'Walden', and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help logic of the great chain of life." Stewart Lee Udall (b. 1920), 'The Quiet Crisis'
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

79) "I refuse to accept the idea that the 'isness' of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'oughtness' that forever confronts him." Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, December 11, 1964
     - John Bartlett - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition

80) "A wise test of right action is this: What is the effect of this action on people seven generations from today?"
     - Matthew Fox - A New Reformation: