"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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ANCIENT WISDOM, MODERN INSIGHT
Shirley Nicholson
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"We spring from the divine Ground which gives rise to all."
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"The Divine Mind reveals its own nature in the human abilities to conceptualize, to see relationships and patterns in diversity, to produce pattern and design in art, mathematics, science, and to organize experience into meaningful, interrelated wholes."
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"Instead of stressing distinctions and the isolation of things, we can look at them as parts connected to form an organic whole. When we expand our consciousness and focus on this rather than on our seeming isolation, we can begin to live more fully."
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"The Self or Atman, as the Hindus call it, or the 'spirit' of the Christians…is never cut off from our transcendent roots in the pure Consciousness of the One."
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"All things are interconnected and bound together as by an invisible thread."
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"In spite of the diversity of forms, evolution attests to the oneness of life."
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"At every level – from the atom and its parts through the myriad forms of life to the farthest stars and galaxies – all is permeated by one Life."
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"Support for the concept of interrelatedness is emerging from all sides. This idea, strange and foreign a hundred years ago, is becoming more and more important in modern thought."
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"The noumenal, nonmaterial Source of all remains forever one and undivided, while the interconnections and wholeness perceived in the world reflect this background oneness."
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"Life is a cyclic interplay of polar energies….The waning of the energy of one pole…is always associated with the waxing in strength of the other pole." Dane Rudhyar, 'The Pulse of Life'
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"Archetypes are reflected in the biological orders, families, genera, species, in the orders of crystals, in the bodily pattern of man."
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"Behind the surface separation and supporting the seemingly disparate things is a unity more basic, more real, closer to us than our sense impressions,…mystics agree with physicists that this unitary realm is primary, that the divisions ultimately rest on a unitary background."
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"The whole of the divine potentiality is inherent everywhere, through evolution it slowly unfolds. The exquisite order of Divine Mind and its archetypes continually presses downward and outward to reveal itself more fully in ever more complex forms."
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"In its depths the life in all that exists IS the One Life."
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"It seems the Divine Mind uses forms as a painter uses his canvas – to embody the rich imaginative potential of mind."
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"In the midst of the whirling and changing worlds, we are ever rooted in the One, our deepest center of consciousness grounded in that unchanging, eternal background."
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"Every atom and particle is imbued with Divine Mind, which energizes it to move to higher levels of organization."
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"The spiritual will is the One itself turned toward the manifest world, so to speak. In us it is the very sense of self, of being an individual, yet at the same time being one with the All."
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"The Divine Mind underlies our being. We are at all times linked to Universal Mind, an ever-present, lawful background, which supports us and gives us life from within."
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"All the principles that govern the universe and its workings are forcefully present in us. We have cosmic connections. We embody universals."
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"Like the learning curve plotted when a new skill is being mastered, there are steps up, falling back, leveling off, new steps forward, but the general direction is always upward. As 'Light on the Path' says, 'The soul of man is immortal and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendor has no limit.'"
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"Although he is not yet finished, man clearly indicates the direction of evolution toward unfoldment of higher and higher reaches of consciousness and mind."
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"Nothing can come into being that did not pre-exist in the inner world as ideal plan."
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"We can know the oneness behind all life, for such knowledge lies within us already, waiting to be actualized."
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"Latent in the depths of our unconscious lies the seed of all future capacities that we and our species will develop."
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