"Oh, Lord of the Universe, I will sing Thee a song. Where canst Thou be found, and where canst Thou not be found? Where I pass – there art Thou. Where I remain – there, too, Thou art. Thou, Thou, and only Thou." Leon Stein, 'Hassidic Music'
Hero With A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
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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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"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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"We are brothers; sons of one sweet mother."
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"Every little thing can be a gateway to infinity."
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"Greece, Rome, Chaldea, Peru, Egypt and all live now in us. Their material triumphs have turned to dust, their old languages are dead, but the gain of character that was achieved by those ancient labors is ours now and forever."
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"Everything depends upon everything else, and, in fact, IS everything else as well as itself."
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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 one cause – which is the Whole – is what existence is and what we are."
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"My I and every I is that one I, the Glorious Presence….the mystery of mysteries, the joy of joys, the presence of all in each…variety mysteriously governed by unity. This is the principle of the whole – the ultimate self-existent power – which governs evolution from within."
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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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"God or the One Reality is the material cause of all things…the substance of all things is that One."
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"The three mental steps towards knowledge of the One Reality are: 1. Listening, 2. Reflecting, 3. Contemplating. Listening means paying attention to the statements of the Scriptures with reference to the One Reality, and also to the words of seers and sages on the subject."
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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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"Knowledge depends principally on a mental act of unity. The advance of knowledge is the discovery of unity."
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"In that fullness of unity the whole is fully present in the part."
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"Anyone who is intent upon knowing the One Reality finds the One Reality everywhere."
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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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"The One Reality can be known by exploring the I, the self – the true, not the false self."
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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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"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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"A man does not understand anything unless he loves it." Goethe
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"One thing is sure – all is one; the world, mind and all."
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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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"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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