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THE RELIGIONS
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"The saints and sages of ancient times are beings who for thousands of years have stimulated and educated humanity."
The Secret of the Golden Flower
(Richard Wilhelm, translator)
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"Good traditions of all ages must inspire the achievement of world peace."
Buddhism and Psychotherapy, The Healing of Heart Doctrine
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Everywhere people ask, 'What can I actually do?' The answer is as simple as it is disconcerting. We can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order. The guidance we need for this work…can still be found in the traditinal wisdom of humankind." E. F. Schumacher, 'Small is Beautiful'
Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life
(Matthew Fox)
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"May that Universal Good Will of the Great Teachers of Wisdom speedily prevail, so that mankind may recognize their divine at-one-ment."
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
(W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)
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"Religion is a living conversation between the human and the divine that goes on generation after generation."
The Way Things Are
(Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)
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"Underlying all the diverse expressions of religious truth in the different great world religions there lies a substratum common to them all." Robin Waterfield, 'Julius Evola: An Italian Interpreter of the Grail'
The Household of the Grail
(John Matthews, editor)
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“True saints, seers, and sages have existed and do exist in ALL religions.”
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"The cognitive insights of a person who has [spiritual] vision can provide healthy food for all. All of us can apply these insights to our lives; and if we do so, we shall soon realize the possibilities of life in every area."
How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation
(Rudolf Steiner)
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"Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity all alike share certain social and economic ideals, based on the right relation between man and nature and God….If they could find a common basis on which to work together, then they would exercise an incalculable influence on the world. It would then be possible to conceive a new world order, in which the ideals of modern science and technology, of humanism and democracy could be integrated in a spiritual order, which would give them that relation to ultimate truth and reality which they need."
Christ in India: Essays Towards a Hindu-Christian Dialogue
(Bede Griffiths)
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"A typical feature of religion is grace, the belief - ..that Reality is ultimately on our side. In last resort the universe is friendly; we can feel at home in it."
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"Throughout history, deeper answers to the questions of life have been offered in the various traditions of sacred psychology – and not just answers, but practical methods of training to grow the godseed. Be it the sophisticated psychophysical methods found in various forms of yoga, or the spiritual practice of oriental martial arts, or the training of mindfulness in Buddhism, or of the imagination in Islamic mysticism, or the activation of courage and creative power in the shamanic practices of the North-South axis of the world, the tradition of the development of the god in us is very rich and always contemporary."
The Search for the Beloved
(Jean Houston)
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"Religious intolerance is blasphemy, since in their primal ground and ultimate sense, all religions are one, as is mankind."
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
(Joseph Campbell)
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"There is one underground river – but there are many wells into that river: an African well, a Taoist well, a Buddhist well, a Jewish well, a Muslim well, a Goddess well, a Christian well, and aboriginal wells. Many wells but one river."
One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths
(Matthew Fox)
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"The masters and mystics have tapped into the underground stream of spiritual knowledge that flows beneath the bedrock of all the great traditions, uniting them and washing away their surface differences. Through these spiritual guides, we gain access to the collective wisdom that feeds the human spirit, filtering into our psyches, souls, and biology."
Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
(Caroline Myss)
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"Religious ideas generally refer to the Same One, but have their own sets of proofs for validity."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"It is necessary to appreciate that, for many thousands of years, human beings have been collecting wisdom….We should not ignore the contributions of the past."
Shambhala
(Chogyam Trungpa)
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"All [mystics] have the same message about that very thing which no soul can utter; the immediate experience of God."
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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“A core of truth lies in all religions.”
Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages
(Robert Ellwood)
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"Do not forget that all religions – which convey mankind's highest thoughts and aspirations – view all the people in the world as one great family."
Oneness: Great Principles Shared By All Religions
(Jeffrey Moses)
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"The Founders of the great religions are members of the one Brotherhood."
The Ancient Wisdom
(Annie Besant)
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"Respecting the diversity of all religions need not obscure the underlying unity."
The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment
(Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)
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"The world outside us IS really most deeply akin to ourselves….It is this perception, this conviction of our essential unity with the whole of creation, which lay from the first at the base of all Religion."
The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs
(Edward Carpenter)
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"Theistic conceptions of both Eastern and Western religions imply that in some sense all things exist in the eternal consciousness of the Supreme."
The Future Is Now: The Significance of Precognition
(Arthur W. Osborn)
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"With some variations in language and emphasis, the essential human process of evolutionary growth is described in similar terms in all major cultures and sacred traditions the world over."
The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
(Ralph Metzner)
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"There is one, absolute, transcendent truth, which is manifested differently in the different forms of religion. This 'transcendent unity' of religion has been compared to a white light, which is broken up into different and apparently contrasting colours, but which remains identical under all its forms. Or it can be said that all religions are different paths to the same goal; they all converge on the infinite, transcendent mystery in which their true meaning is to be found."
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1906-1950
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)
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