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LIVING WHOLENESS
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"The 'whole' comprises and embraces all beings. Without and outside this whole, there is no true being. All things have their being in the whole, for it is the essence of all things." Julius Pfeiffer, 'Theologia deutsch'
Mystics after Modernism
(Rudolf Steiner)
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"God…united everything into a harmonious whole." The Gospel of Bartholomew, 3rd century Christian Apocrypha
The Other Bible
(Willis Barnstone, editor)
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"While the idea of the Earth being alive is very ancient and speculative theories about the planet as a living system had been formulated several times, the space flights during the early 1960's enabled human beings for the first time to actually look at our planet from outer space and perceive it as an integrated whole. This perception of the Earth in all its beauty – a blue and white globe floating in the deep darkness of space – moved the astronauts deeply and, as several have since declared, was a profound spiritual experience that forever changed their relationship to the Earth."
The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
(Fritjof Capra)
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"Events form highly integrated patterns and there is a deep relatedness running through all things."
Creative Vision for Art and for Life
(Richard Guggenheimer)
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"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."
The Atman Project
(Ken Wilber)
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"As Soul infusion begins to take place, one begins to perceive the world in increasingly more collective terms, without losing sight of its individual, component parts. One is thus able to see oneself, others, and all manner of interconnectedness clearly and simultaneously."
Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self
(Alan Oken)
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"Relation is the essence of everything that is." Meister Eckhart
Saints and Madmen: Psychiatry Opens its Doors to Religion
(Russell Shorto)
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"Each part, or what appears to be a part, is the Whole."
Nature Word
(R. A. Schwaller deLubicz)
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"We must understand that we are all truly part of one whole, that all of creation is, at the deepest level, one consciousness, one intelligence."
The Path of Transformation, How Healing Ourselves Can Change The World
(Shakti Gawain)
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"Works like the Zohar, the 'bible' of Kabbalistic lore, stress over and over that all the various dimensions of existence are intimately interwoven." Edward Hoffman
As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life
(Ronald S. Miller and the editors of New Age Journal)
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"Time is the structuring power which divides the universal world process into wholes within wholes within wholes."
Occult Preparations for a New Age
(Dane Rudhyar)
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"Whom God remembers must be whole. And God has never forgotten what makes Him whole. In your completion lies the memory of His Wholeness and His gratitude to you for His completion."
A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind
(Tara Singh)
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"Human and Cosmos are not only reciprocally related but, even though the apparent forms differ, [are] mirror images of each other."
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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"The ancients…handed down the tradition, that whatever things are said to be, are composed of one and many…this unity we shall find in everything." Plato, 'Philebus'
Introductory Metaphysics
(Avery R. Dulles, James M. Demske, Robert J. O'Connell)
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"All living things are part of the whole, placed there by divine plan and purpose."
The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation
(The Findhorn Community)
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"Everywhere in the cosmos archaic man recognizes a source of the sacred, that any fragment of the cosmos can give rise to a hierophany."
Shamanism, Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
(Mircea Eliade)
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"We are parts of a whole, elements in an universal harmony." Bede Griffiths
The Essential Mystics
(Andrew Harvey)
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"All of the universe is a Living System, every aspect and every element of it interdependent upon the other, a giant matrix of interconnected and interweaving waves of energy."
Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"We shall be saved by an option that has chosen the whole."
Science and Christ
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"God is indivisibly whole, seamless in his Godhood." 'Symeon the New Theologian' (translated by Stephen Mitchell),
Son of Man, The Mystical Path to Christ
(Andrew Harvey)
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"The nature of life is a process of evolution in which we become progressively more whole, psychologically and spiritually."
Seven Paths to God, The Ways of the Mystic
(Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.)
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"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."
Beasts and Saints
(Helen Waddell)
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"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."
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"One flower is made of the whole cosmos."
Living Buddha, Living Christ
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
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"The overall organic pattern is multiplicity in unity."
A Dictionary of Symbols
(J. E. Cirlot)
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