THE FINDHORN GARDEN: PIONEERING A NEW VISION OF MAN AND NATURE IN COOPERATION
The Findhorn Community
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"One part of nature cannot be isolated from another, so action taken against any part sets up a chain of events that affects the whole."
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"Mankind has an inherent sensitivity to the needs of Earth and to the plan of God."
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"I know that God is within each one of us, within everything."
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"Every decision you make, you choose whether you make it for the small self or whether you seek divine guidance and follow that."
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"Love is a firm reality which forms a bridge over which all can walk."
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"Out of separation comes synthesis, and out of domination comes cooperation. This is the promise of recreating the Garden that is Earth's essence."
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"We are told to turn within, to seek God within….But this withinness is not contained in my physical body which would limit it; it is in all dimensions of space and time; it is infinite, the eternal now."
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"All participate in and reflect the same universal processes of growth. Our planet is informed with a life and a spirit which is gradually unfolding itself, realizing its latent potentials. This process repeats itself on every level of being."
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"We would shout it in words of fire that oneness is."
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"God's will is the path we tread which develops the best for us and for all we encounter."
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"The truth is within me and within you – the whole of it. Where anything exists, God is. Not part of God but God indivisible."
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"All living things are part of the whole, placed there by divine plan and purpose."
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"Man's consciousness must expand to new insights and into deeper communion with and dominion over his own nature. Out of this can come a divine power to transform our planet."
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"We are all capable of bringing about what we set our minds to if it is for the good of the whole."
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"If we treat everything as alive, intelligent and part of the One Life, our own life is greatly enriched."
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"The esoteric traditions of all cultures speak of the 'withinness' of things that seeks to externalize and to fulfill itself. If we think of our planet as an organic, growing system – a living being – then it, too, has an image of fulfillment buried within its seed center, an image that is using all of nature as its means of emergence."
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"All cultures begin in explosions of myth in the minds of prophets, mystics, visionary scientists, artists and crazies. Whether it is in the dreams of Descartes, Alfred Russell Wallace and Niels Bohr, or in the visions of Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed, culture springs from the depths." William Irwin Thompson, Foreword
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"Life is ceaselessly growing, moving on, learning, rising and becoming more and more conscious."
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"We are One."
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"All things are a manifestation of intelligence and all happenings are related."
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"Through love, we recognize and enhance the interrelationship of all life forms."
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"To heal the Earth, which is our greater body, we must create an ecological balance within as well as without. We do so by recognizing that the basis of life is interrelationship."
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"Everything belongs to one world."
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"What greater vision could be given humankind than for God to say to us, 'You are my beloveds. Build with me, create with me.'"
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"You, too, are parts of the whole – part of that clod of earth, part of that tiny flower, part of the sunshine and the rain, the light in another's eye, the warmth of another's smile."
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