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"That consciousness, wide as the sea, with 'its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere', is a great and glorious FACT."
The Inner Life
(Charles W. Leadbeater)
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"Man remains forever free at the centre."
The Ancient Wisdom
(Annie Besant)
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"There is a Center to the personality that includes the whole Self….This whole Self is in each of us as a potentiality and seeks to be realized in the life process."
The Kingdom Within, the Inner Meaning of Jesus' Sayings
(John Sanford)
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"The integrated personality does not merely express the individual totality, for in the actualization of his own a priori wholeness the individual also discovers his relatedness to a super-individual centre. This centre is the self which is paradoxically the quintessence of the individuum and at the same time of the collectivum. In other words: the experience of wholeness coincides with the experience of a centre of the personality and a meaning of life which transcends the individual. This is expressed for instance in the words of Nicolaus of Cusa who makes God say to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'" Gerhard Adler (b. 1904), English Jungian analyst, 'Studies in Analytical Psychology'
The Choice Is Always Ours
(Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)
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"The invisible centre is Adam Kadmon, the Original Man."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Joy is the still point at the center of the dance."
Finding Deep Joy
(Robert Ellwood)
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"In a sense each human being is the center of the universe, for God lives equally in all."
Reincarnation: A Hope of the World
(Irving S. Cooper)
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"Circular yantras appear in most spiritual and religious practice. A peek through to the collective cortex perhaps. From the sand paintings of the Navajo to the floor mosaics and dome designs of many churches, synagogues, mosques, and cathedrals."
Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey
(Stephen Levine)
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"Though the principle of the center is One, the patterns, the swirls and eddies of form and process which are generated by and through the center are infinite; and though infinite in number, the centers are essentially one, for each is the same irreducible point, the primary syllable, the word, the Logos, through which all is uttered."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)
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"We enclose you in the sacred circle of life. We ask you all to join in the circle. We put all creation in the circle, especially what is broken and needs healing. We put all of you in the circle because we love all of you." Burton Pretty On Top, Crow (Native American) spiritual leader, to the Parliament of World Religions, 1993
The Quest
(various)
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"When we go to the center, we leave behind time and place and separateness. We come to our Source and are in the Being from which we ever flow and in which we ever stand and apart from which we are not."
Centering Prayer, Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form
(M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.)
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"All centres are symbols of eternity, since time is the motion of the periphery of the wheel of phenomena rotating around the Aristotelian 'unmoved mover'."
A Dictionary of Symbols
(J. E. Cirlot)
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"From what source will human individuals ultimately draw the desire to accept one another and draw one another towards joyful unity? There is only one conceivable source: a growing attraction to the centre of consciousness in which their fibres and their bundle must complete themselves by reuiniting."
The Vision of the Past
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him."
The Ancient Wisdom
(Annie Besant)
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"Act from the center – which the poet T. S. Eliot called 'the still point.'"
The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment
(Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)
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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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"The Alcoran [Koran] describes Allah's character and attributes thus: 'He alone is self-existent; has no rival; is from everlasting to everlasting; fills the universe with his presence; is the center in which all things unite.'"
A Dictionary of Freemasonry
(Robert Macoy)
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"The circle with the point in the centre is symbolic of the perfected man. He is rounded out; he is inclusive both vertically (soul contact) and horizontally (human relationship)."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"There is only ONE SINGLE CENTER in the universe…it impels the whole of creation along one and the same line, first towards the fullest development of consciousness, and later towards the highest degree of holiness."
Writings in Time of War
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"The vertical axis through the centre of the Yang-Yin constitutes the unvarying mean or, in other words, the mystic 'Centre' where there is no rotation, no restlessness, no impulse, nor any suffering of any kind. It corresponds to the central zone of the Wheel of Transformations in Hindu symbolism, and the centre or the way out of the labyrinth in Egyptian and western symbolism."
A Dictionary of Symbols
(J. E. Cirlot)
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"The exchange of love between the contemplative person and the sacred center of all things keeps one on the path."
One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality
(Stephen Harrod Buhner)
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"At the centre of ourselves, deeper than any dissecting knife can reach or than any physical investigation can fathom, lies buried the vital and immortal principle, the glimmering ray that affiliates us to the Divine Centre of all life, and that is never wholly extinguished however…imperfect our lives may be."
The Meaning of Masonry
(W. L. Wilmshurst)
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"The symbolism of the 'Centre', which plays a considerable part in every religion, is integral with the symbolism of Heaven: it is at the 'Centre of the World' that the break through the plane may take place, making it possible to enter into Heaven."
Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities
(Mircea Eliade)
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"The world is…a single sphere with countless centres from which it can be observed and from which action can emanate."
Science and Christ
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Fix your attention on the centre, the room or palace occupied by the King."
Interior Castle
(Teresa of Avila)
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