"Everything in nature is cyclical and opposites are in balance. In the natural world you have opposites, like day and night, but they're not in opposition; they're complements to each other. They're part of one whole, and you have to have both. One isn't 'good' and the other 'evil'. The more that we can start to look at the world in this way again, the more integrated we can be." Starhawk, author and founding minister of the Covenant of the Goddess, 'Envisioning the Future'
The Fabric of the Future - M. J. Ryan, editor
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"Reality is one."
The Way Things Are
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"Accepting and acting according to the basic truth 'All Is One' is a universal spiritual challenge."
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
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"There are millions among us who understand we are one. As we create deeper peace among any of us anywhere, the reality of peace becomes more probable everywhere. We can surround the world with a field of peace so powerful that hatred and fear will dissolve in its presence….knowing the truth of our spiritual oneness and embracing it within our hearts is the ultimate answer to all the problems of the world."
Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
(Marianne Williamson)
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"Creator uncreated, sole one, unique one, who traverses eternity…with millions under his care; Your splendor is like heaven's splendor." Suti and Hor (15th to 14th centuries bce), architects to Amenhotep III, 'First Hymn to the Sun God'
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition
(John Bartlett)
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"God, the Isness, the Great Oneness of the Universe, is the collective presence of all things living, all evolving beings."
Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era
(Meredith L. Young)
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"My I and every I is that one I, the Glorious Presence….the mystery of mysteries, the joy of joys, the presence of all in each…variety mysteriously governed by unity. This is the principle of the whole – the ultimate self-existent power – which governs evolution from within."
The Glorious Presence
(Ernest E. Wood)
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"We cannot get away from one ultimate enveloping cause, present in all causes and constituting their essential nature."
The Glorious Presence
(Ernest E. Wood)
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"That which in modern phraseology is referred to as Spirit and Matter, is ONE in eternity as the perpetual cause, and it is…all that is, was, or will be, all that the imagination of man is capable of conceiving."
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"God is giving herself, wholly and completely, in and as the incomprehensible stature of a single breath."
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
(James Finley)
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"No manifested thing can be thought of except as part of a larger whole: the total aggregate being the One manifested Universe."
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"The Laws of the universe are the modes of expression, the life impulses and the way of existence or activity of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The ordinary way of dividing the world into subject-object terms is illusory. At bottom, the perceiver and the perceived are one." Larry Dossey, M.D., 'Ancient Messages in Modern Science'
American Theosophist, The
(Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)
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"Considered in its physical, concrete reality, the stuff of the universe cannot divide itself but, as a kind of gigantic 'atom', it forms in its totality…the only real indivisible."
The Phenomenon of Man
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Truth admits of no plurality, and reveals itself as single and unique." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Third Century of Various Texts'
The Philokalia, volume 2
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)
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"There can be no more than one infinity, a place where all things, the great, the small, the external and the internal meet."
The Transforming Mind
(Laurence and Phoebe Bendit)
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"The One bears all things." 'Akathist to the Mother of God', 6th century Byzantine hymn, edited by Patriarch Sergius, 7th century
At the Lighting of the Lamps, Hymns of the Ancient Church
(John A. McGucklin, compiler)
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"The cosmos is one, unique, and could not be otherwise, as it reflects the Oneness of its Cause." Keith Critchlow, 'The Platonic Tradition'
Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science
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"All the sounds of nature blend themselves into one tone."
The Astral Body
(Arthur E. Powell)
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"Just as the figments of a dream derive from the life energy of one dreamer, representing only fluid splittings and complications of that single force, so do all the forms of all the worlds, whether terrestrial or divine, reflect the universal force of a single inscrutable mystery: the power that constructs the atom and controls the orbits of the stars."
Hero With A Thousand Faces
(Joseph Campbell)
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"All Souls are one."
From the Outer Court to the Inner Sanctum
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"The same elements compose my mind and the world. This situation is the same for every mind and its world, in spite of the unfathomable abundance of cross-references between them. The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one." Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961), 'Why Not Talk Physics?'
Quantum Questions, Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists
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"Relativity and quantum theory agree in that both imply the need to look upon the world as an undivided whole in which all the parts of the universe merge and unite in one totality." David Bohm, 'Wholeness and the Implicate Order'
Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self
(Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)
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"They who see but One in all the changing manifoldness of this universe, unto them belongs eternal truth: unto none else, unto none else." Katha Upanishad
The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins
(Evelyn Underhill)
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"The universe is the combination of a thousand elements, and yet the expression of a single spirit."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"I know no feeling of separation from any living soul for we are all one as the love of God works in and through His perfect creation."
Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved
(Jack and Cornelia Addington)
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