COMMUNITY
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"Just as drops of water lost within the vast sheets of oceans participate in all sorts of common chemical, thermal or capillary relationships; so, at a higher degree of reality, no living mass (whether it is the whole biosphere or a fraction of it) is conceivable… except as permeated and animated by certain forces of solidarity which bring the paricular forms into balance and control the unifying currents within the All."
The Vision of the Past
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Look upon the world as maturing – not only in each individual or in each nation, but in the whole human race – a specific power of knowing and loving whose transfigured term is charity, but whose roots and elemental sap lie in the discovery and the love of everything that is true and beautiful in creation."
The Divine Milieu
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Who are you who go about to save them that are lost? Are you saved yourself?.... Be sure, very sure, that each one of these can teach you as much as, probably more than, you can teach them. Have you then sat humbly at their feet, and waited on their lips that they should be the first to speak – and been reverent before these children – whom you so little understand? Have you dropped into the bottomless pit from between yourself and them all hallucination of superiority, all flatulence of knowledge, every shred of abhorrence and loathing? Is it equal, is it free as the wind between you? Could you be happy receiving favors from one of the most despised of these?.....Arise, then, and become a savior." Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), English author, poet, 'Towards Democracy'
The Choice Is Always Ours
(Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)
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"Behind all lies a biological and psychic cooperative venture."
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
(Jane Roberts)
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"We each have an opportunity right now to contribute to the evolution of ourselves, our species, and the planet as a whole. Everyone is needed. Everyone's genius fits into some evolving need of the whole system." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Awakening to Our Genius: The Heroine's Journey'
The Fabric of the Future
(M. J. Ryan, editor)
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"This focus of synthesis and unity, this resolution of dualities into greater, more inclusively loving wholes, is fundamental to the New Age."
Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self
(Alan Oken)
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"Actions which help and heal others and which preserve and restore, when disturbed, the harmony of the Universe, are in accord with cosmic purpose and so produce happiness, which is moreness, fullness, and accord. One should therefore be harmonious and a harmoniser. Herein lies the individual contribution to the solution of the problem of war; for when the harmonisers become a majority peace will reign."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"One's neighbour is all men, unconditionally every human being."
Works of Love
(Soren Kierkegaard)
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"The world needs us to start extending wholeness, because that is what we are."
A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind
(Tara Singh)
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"People will join together in clusters in their communities, towns, and villages, connecting up with other groups around the world via a network created by the lot of them and facilitated by today's communication technologies."
Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"The apprehension of the intrinsic interconnectedness of all leads organically to a compassion for all, especially in the concrete existential situations of life as we meet others each day. Simply put, when we realize we are all in this together, our kindness and understanding grows. We are all related; we are all responsible for one another."
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"The first essential is that the human units shall draw closer together, not merely under the pressure of external forces, or solely by the performance of material acts, but directly, centre to centre, through internal attraction. Not through coercion, or enslavement to a common task, but through unanimity in a common spirit. The construction of molecules ensues through atomic affinity. Similarly, on a higher level, it is through sympathy, and this alone, that the human elements in a personalized universe may hope to rise to the level of a higher synthesis."
Let Me Explain
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Your neighbor is your other self dwelling behind a wall. In understanding, all walls shall fall down." Kahlil Gibran
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles
(Caroline Myss)
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"The religious need longs for wholeness, and therefore lays hold of the images of wholeness offered by the unconscious, which, independently of the conscious mind, rise up from the depths of our psychic nature."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Since we are all one in the same Self, or the same mystical body of Christ, or the same Dharmakaya, then in serving others I am serving my own Self."
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
(Ken Wilber)
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"Pursue the line of conduct marked out by the strictest integrity, as regards the interests of the whole." Last words of Lorenzo de Medici (d. 1492), poet and prince of Florence, Italy
Last Words of Saints and Sinners
(Herbert Lockyer)
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"We obviously have close ties to partners, family, and friends, but we are also part of layers and layers of communities."
Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
(Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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"Human bodies are of course separate, but on a deeper level we are joined like icebergs in a common floe."
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"Remember that every effort you make in the direction of wholeness and the common good contributes to shifting the overall consciousness of our world." Dr. Barbara L. King, 'Will: The Foundation Faculty of the New Global Order'
New Thoughts for a New Millennium
(Michael A. Maday, editor)
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"Instead of loving what you think is peace, love other men and love God above all. And instead of hating the people you think are warmakers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war."
Seeds of Contemplatiion
(Thomas Merton)
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"Grounded in self-knowledge, I am grounded in awareness of oneness with you at a level that precedes and transcends the differences between us. I know you with an empathic, heartfelt knowledge of what it means to be a human being."
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
(James Finley)
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"I do want to think in terms of the whole world. My patriotism includes the good of mankind in general….Isolated independence is not the goal of the world States; it is voluntary interdependence. The better mind of the world desires today not absolutely independent States, warring one against another, but a federation of friendly, interdependent States." Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian statesman, mystic
The Choice Is Always Ours
(Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)
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"Link yourself through the heart and through your inner eye of perception to all men and women of goodwill all over the world. Affirm your unity with them."
Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self
(Alan Oken)
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"A conscious being knows that life always works best when we operate from a loving space that lets us receive and experience other people (no matter what they do or say) as no different from ourselves."
Handbook to Higher Consciousness
(Ken Keyes, Jr.)
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"What you perceive in others you are strengthening in yourself."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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