"Evolution is transcendence (Erich Janstch's marvelous phrase: 'Evolution as self-realization through self-transcendence'); and transcendence has as its final goal Atman, or ultimate Unity Consciousness in only God. All drives are a subset of that Drive, all wants a subset of that Want, all pushes a subset of that Pull – and that whole movement is what we call the Atman-project: the drive of God towards God."
The Atman Project - Ken Wilber
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"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."
Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition
(Valentin Tomberg)
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"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'
Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery
(Cranston/Head, editors)
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"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'."
A Dictionary of Symbols
(J. E. Cirlot)
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"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."
A Dictionary of Freemasonry
(Robert Macoy)
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"The invisible centre is Adam Kadmon, the Original Man."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"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."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)
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"The divine eye is center everywhere, circumference nowhere."
Autobiography of a Yogi
(Paramahansa Yogananda)
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"Spirit may be defined as that which has its center in itself." Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"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."
Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities
(Mircea Eliade)
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"The symbolism of the center is the formative principle not only of countries, cities, temples, and palaces but also of the humblest human dwelling."
The Sacred and the Profane, The Nature of Religion
(Mircea Eliade)
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"From whichever point a Mandala is entered, a path opens that leads to the eternal center."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)
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"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.'"
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Every point in the cosmos can be considered its centre."
To Hear the Angels Sing
(Dorothy Maclean)
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"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."
Regents of the Seven Spheres
(H. K. Challoner)
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"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'
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"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."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"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'
Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions
(Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)
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"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."
The Power of Myth
(Joseph Campbell)
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"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'
Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality
(Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)
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"The centre is that microcosmic point in which the macrocosm is concentrated."
Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind
(Anthony Stevens)
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"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."
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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"The number one is equivalent to the 'Centre', to the non-manifest point, to the creative power of the 'unmoved mover'.
Tarot Revelations
(Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts)
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"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'
Ariadne's Clue, A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind
(Anthony Stevens)
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"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."
Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change
(Richard Wilhelm)
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"The centre of grace is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
Lamps of Western Mysticism
(Arthur Edward Waite)
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