THE GLORIOUS PRESENCE
Ernest E. Wood
An explanation of the Vedanta Philosophy, including Shankara's Ode to the South-facing Form.
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"Anyone who is intent upon knowing the One Reality finds the One Reality everywhere."
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"Everything depends upon everything else, and, in fact, IS everything else as well as itself."
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"There is an entelechy or active operation of form-building in Nature, and therefore a teleological purpose or design showing progress in Nature."
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"In that fullness of unity the whole is fully present in the part."
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"From the unreal to the real is not from one thing to another, but from the complexity of duality and multiplicity to the simplicity of unity."
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"Everything is in intimate touch with other things….with no empty space between. This is a dance in which the partners are holding each other closely."
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"The one cause – which is the Whole – is what existence is and what we are."
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"We are brothers; sons of one sweet mother."
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"A man does not understand anything unless he loves it." Goethe
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"God or the One Reality is the material cause of all things…the substance of all things is that One."
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"Every little thing can be a gateway to infinity."
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"If I were to try to name the new era, I would say it is characterized, whether consciously or not, by an inward-rising feeling of sympathy and companionship with other men and all things."
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"The One Reality can be known by exploring the I, the self – the true, not the false self."
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"Everything that occurs is worthy of our most appreciative attention, since it is in some way Brahman."
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"There is something marvellous in the power within a seed, and when that seed is the human soul, containing the powers of will, thought and love, no one should dare to measure its possibilities by an undeveloped imagination…it is for him to be his own gardener, to understand his own destiny, and to make his circumstances assist him in its swift achievement."
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"I see that when souls reach a certain clearness of perfection, they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The whole universe is in a flow of universal in-fluence in which everything is in some degree potent in everything else."
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"The world is of one piece, the same spirit which is in the saddle in the globe is also in the atom."
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"We cannot get away from one ultimate enveloping cause, present in all causes and constituting their essential nature."
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"The whole reflects into every part."
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"Man CAN KNOW that one reality – men have known it in the past and can do so now."
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"One thing is sure – all is one; the world, mind and all."
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"There is no complete error, no complete ignorance – ever. In the world what resists us helps us, as the ground which obstructs our feet, but is necessary in walking. There is no escape from the self."
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"Knowledge depends principally on a mental act of unity. The advance of knowledge is the discovery of unity."
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"Things are not independent, clear-cut, definite-boundaried objects….Each one is what it is because there is a principle of oneness which is the essential cause and basis of all. Each is in some way all. That is the nature of being. Nothing IS that is not essentially all."
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