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LIVING WHOLENESS
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"Light everywhere meets with light; since everything contains all things in itself and again sees all things in another. So that all things are everywhere and all is all. Each thing likewise is everything." Plotinus, quoted in G. R. S. Mead's introduction to Taylor's 'Plotinus'
The Ancient Wisdom
(Annie Besant)
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"Ours is a time of emerging awareness of the interconnectivity of all things."
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ
(Matthew Fox)
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"The alchemist…knew definitely that as part of the whole he had an image of the whole in himself."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Opening up the pores of sensation – or the doors of perception, as Blake called them – we might sense more in the world than can be seen with the literal eye. We might perceive the world's beauty, its presence as a whole and in parts in relation to us, and our family relationship to it. We might sense a stirring there, a spark – a scintilla, the ancients called it. We might sense, as Meister Eckhart said, an eye looking back at us as we look into the world."
The Soul's Religion, Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life
(Thomas Moore)
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"Total healthiness comes from wholeness, which is holiness. This resonance enables a consonance to sound from microcosm through mesocosm to macrocosm, and is the root and secret to finding unity and the unified experience." Keith Critchlow, 'What Is Sacred in Architecture?"
Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science
(Christopher Bamford, editor)
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"The Soul is not divided, nor does it split up in order to give life to each individual. All things live by the Soul in its entirety; it is all present everywhere." Plotinus (204-270), Greek philosopher, 'Enneads'
The Essential Mystics
(Andrew Harvey)
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"Man is a microcosm and is not separated from the macrocosm by any fixed barriers."
The Secret of the Golden Flower
(Richard Wilhelm, translator)
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"The virtue of the universe is wholeness. It regards all things as equal." Tao Te Ching
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles
(Caroline Myss)
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"What is organism (with its component organs) is no longer sharply distinguished from what lies outside the boundaries of the skin. In the holographic domain, each organism represents in some manner the universe, and each portion of the universe represents in some manner the organism within it." Karl Pribram, contemporary scientist and author
The Relevance of Bliss
(Nona Coxhead)
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"Health is harmony with the world view. Health is an intuitive perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one fabric." Jeanne Achterberg, 'The Shaman: Master Healer in the Imaginary Realm'
Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality
(Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)
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"It is quite characteristic in peak experiences that the whole universe is perceived as an integrated and unified whole."
Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences
(Abraham Maslow)
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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
The Glorious Presence
(Ernest E. Wood)
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"Anyone who finds in infinite nature nothing but one whole, one complete poem, in whose every word, every syllable, the harmony of the whole rings out…has won the highest prize of all." J. W. Ritter, 'Fragmente aus dem Nachlasse eines jungen Physikers', 2:205
Modern Esoteric Spirituality
(Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors)
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"Creation is the extension of God. Creation is God encountered in time and space. Creation is the infinite in the garb of the finite. To attend to creation is to attend to God. To attend to the moment is to attend to eternity. To attend to the part is to attend to the whole." 'Pirke Avot', 6:2 (Rabbinic sayings, ca. 250-275),
The Essential Mystics
(Andrew Harvey)
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"We are all Buddha things. We are all separate manifestations of this great consciousness that informs the whole universe. The plants are conscious. The stones are conscious. All things are conscious." Joseph Campbell
The Hero's Journey
(Phil Cousineau, editor)
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"Wholeness comes first, multiplicity later; the many derive from the one."
Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief
(Huston Smith)
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" Like many other shamans, the Hawaiian kupua has the conception that everything is interconnected." Serge King, 'The Way of the Adventurer'
Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality
(Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)
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"We are human beings before we are men or women or members of a particular locale, culture, or religion. There is arising today…a veritable new form of spirituality: wholeness (some might say holiness or healing) is emerging as the primary meaning and guiding principle of life." Anna Freifeld Lemkow, 'Karmic Process in Science and Society'
Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony
(V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)
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"We are all, in every particle of our being, precipitations of consciousness; we are, likewise, the animals and plants, metals drawing to a magnet and waters tiding to the moon. Today the planet is the only proper 'in group'."
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
(Diane K. Osbon, editor)
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"Nobility, in the deepest and truest sense of the word, is the capacity to serve the purpose of a Greater Whole-in-the-making." Dane Rudhyar, composer and author, 'The Transformation of Karma into Dharma'
Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony
(Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)
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"Nature has been forming synergistic systems for billions of years. Holism, the tendency to form whole systems out of separate parts, is the nature of reality." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Discovery of a New Ordering of the Future'
New Thoughts for a New Millennium
(Michael A. Maday, editor)
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"A breeze is blowing through the human masses; one that draws us all by a sort of living affinity towards the splendid realization of some foreseen unity. Disputed, suspect and often scorned, unitary aspirations in politics, in thought, in mysticism, arise everywhere around us; and because their subject is not what is material and plural but what is spiritual and common to all in each one of us, no force of routine or egoism seems capable of arresting them; irresistibly they infiltrate and gradually dissolve old forms and false barriers."
The Vision of the Past
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Everything is multiplicity within unity….In the image of God who created them, all beings are at once one and many from the galaxy to the electron." Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest, 'Abide in Love'
Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
(Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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"As a cosmogenic model, the Mandala is a synchronous, self-renewing whole."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)
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"With the end of the purely rational and dualistic understanding of the world, of Newtonian physics and its logical categories and divisions, we are now beginning to speak in the terms of inter-connectedness, of the web of creation, of the network which brings all things together into a shared unity."
Beasts and Saints
(Helen Waddell)
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