"I hold – in view of the rapid movement of the soul, its vivid memory of the past and its prophetic knowledge of the future, its many accomplishments, its vast range of knowledge, its numerous discoveries – that a nature embracing such varied gifts cannot itself be mortal." Cicero (106-43 bc), Roman statesman and philosopher, 'On Old Age'
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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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"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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"God or the One Reality is the material cause of all things…the substance of all things is that One."
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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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"Everything that occurs is worthy of our most appreciative attention, since it is in some way Brahman."
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"Being IS 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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"This belief that our world is one indivisible thing is held by modern scientists today, and they come very near to proving it also – at least nothing ever happens to create a doubt of its truth….the world of our experience is in some way one."
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"The whole reflects into every part."
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"The earth is honey for all beings; all beings are honey for the earth also -…It is the self, the immortal, Brahman, all. Just as all the spokes of a cartwheel are fixed in the nave and the circumference, so are all beings fitted in the self, which is without before or after, or inside or outside, the knower of all." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, II, 5
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"The one cause – which is the Whole – is what existence is and what we are."
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"Anyone who is intent upon knowing the One Reality finds the One Reality everywhere."
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"A man does not understand anything unless he loves it." Goethe
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"That the whole world is constituted of the One Reality is one of the essential principles of Vedantic thought."
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"In that fullness of unity the whole is fully present in the part."
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"A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Somehow everything is Brahman. We have constantly to remind ourselves of this piece of knowledge and then we shall value our present experience."
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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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"Knowledge depends principally on a mental act of unity. The advance of knowledge is the discovery of unity."
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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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"Love is a kind of knowledge, an awareness of other lives. With it we begin to live in others, and cannot ignore the wounded bird or the lost child."
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"Every little thing can be a gateway to infinity."
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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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"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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"We cannot get away from one ultimate enveloping cause, present in all causes and constituting their essential nature."
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"Being is one, though named variously."
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