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HUMANITY
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"The deity-to-be is already present embryonically within every human being."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"The service humanity is to render is that of producing unity, harmony, and beauty in nature, through blending into one functioning, related unity the soul in all forms."
Esoteric Psychology II
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"In essence, all human beings are identical. We are all part of One; we are One." Erich Fromm, 'The Art of Loving'
Handbook for the Heart, Original Writings on Love
(Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, editors)
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"Just as there is only one God, Father, Creator, and Lord of everything that exists, so all peoples could unite and become one people,…giving glory and praise to our Lord God." Ramon Llull, 'The Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men'
Ramon Lull and the Secret of Life
(Amador Vega)
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"Just as there is a universality of form to the human body, so there is a universsality to the inner person. The same typical (archetypal) structures are found in people everywhere."
The Kingdom Within, the Inner Meaning of Jesus' Sayings
(John Sanford)
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"The purpose of thought and feeling is to form the mold of fruitful and progressive experience which in turn endows mankind with the highest aspects of his Divine Self."
Saint Germain on Alchemy
(Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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"As Mencius put it: 'The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards.'"
The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions
(August Karl Reischauer)
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"Human beings are being compelled by a force much greater than ourselves to heal ourselves, our cultures, our environment – in short, to become a conscious species."
Why People Don't Heal and How They Can
(Caroline Myss)
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"Each one is, within himself, a hierarchy, a reflection of a great chain of being – the Being which the universe expresses."
Esoteric Psychology II
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The processes of the macrocosm are reflected in ourselves. So in studying ourselves we may know the inherent nature of the universe."
The Future Is Now: The Significance of Precognition
(Arthur W. Osborn)
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"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillments only love." Luther Burbank, American botanist
Autobiography of a Yogi
(Paramahansa Yogananda)
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"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."
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight
(Shirley Nicholson)
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"There is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems."
Shambhala
(Chogyam Trungpa)
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"The ground or root of wakefulness and sanity exists as a potential within every human being."
Shambhala
(Chogyam Trungpa)
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"We are all divine, eternal beings, aspects of the essential oneness of life."
The Path of Transformation, How Healing Ourselves Can Change The World
(Shakti Gawain)
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"I am a flying arrow, determined by the target because I have been launched by the mind of a divine archer, a mind with a purpose."
Heaven, The Heart's Deepest Longing
(Peter Kreeft)
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"The Temple in which we now find ourselves, the physical Temple and the Temple 'not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens', the psyche, is sacred ground, the place where one stands in the living presence of God."
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"All unite, intersect, and through mutual communication engender thoughts in each other. This is inborn in man at his birth; and free will, self-determination, consciousness, reason, and the foundation of all spiritual power are contained herein." Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887), professor of physics and chemistry
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"The human soul is something great and wondrous….it overlooks the universe and has all things in its care; it is capable of knowing and receiving God, and more than anything else has the capacity of manifesting the sublime magnificence of the Master-Craftsman." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
The Philokalia, volume 4
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)
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"The human is a living miniaturization of the cosmos."
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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"We are one in our origin, one in the method of our evolution, one in our goal."
The Ancient Wisdom
(Annie Besant)
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"The nature of the soul is love and the will-to-good."
Discipleship in the New Age
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The seeds of the Divine mind [are] sown in man." Ovid
One Thousand Inspirational Things
(Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)
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"Man is formed eternally in the divine mind." Johannes Scotus Eriugena (ca. 815-877), translator and philosopher
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"The ancient and long-obsolete idea of man as a microcosm contains a supreme psychological truth that has yet to be discovered…..An inkling of this is to be found in the words of Origen: 'Understand that thou art a second world in miniature, and that the sun and the moon are within thee, and also the stars.' (Homiliae in Leviticum)" 'Psychology of the Transference', CW 16
Basic Writings of C G Jung
(V S DeLasslo, editor)
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