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"This I certainly believe: that now it is necessary for our survival to have an ecological awareness, a notion of the inter-dependence of all phenomena, the notion of the sisterhood and brotherhood between all people." Fritjof Capra, 'Spirituality and Social Values'
American Theosophist, The
(Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)
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"From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying force that flowed in and through all things – the flowers of the plains, blowing wind, rocks, trees, birds, animals – and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred, and were brought together by the same Great Mystery." Luther Standing Bear (Sioux Native American)
One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality
(Stephen Harrod Buhner)
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"Human bodies are of course separate, but on a deeper level we are joined like icebergs in a common floe."
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"We obviously have close ties to partners, family, and friends, but we are also part of layers and layers of communities."
Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
(Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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"The apprehension of the intrinsic interconnectedness of all leads organically to a compassion for all, especially in the concrete existential situations of life as we meet others each day. Simply put, when we realize we are all in this together, our kindness and understanding grows. We are all related; we are all responsible for one another."
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"We have different roots, traditions, and ways of seeing, but we share the common qualities of love, understanding, and acceptance. For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand."
Living Buddha, Living Christ
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
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"There is nothing and no one outside us, so much as there are mirrors everywhere. Every person is a part of us, and we are a part of every person."
Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
(Marianne Williamson)
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"If we learn how to consciously cooperate with the creative force of planetary evolution as it is shaping up with the passage of time, mankind's age-old dream of the kingdom of heaven on earth, i.e., an internationally unified world order controlled by the power of truth, justice and love, can inevitably come true." Haridas Chaudhuri, 'The Meaning of Karma in Integral Philosophy'
Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony
(Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)
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"Countless men and women in every land will form themselves into groups for the promotion of good-will and for the production of right human relations. So great will be their numbers that from being a small and relatively unimportant minority, they will be the largest and the most influential force in the world."
The Reappearance of the Christ
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The soul is group-conscious."
Regents of the Seven Spheres
(H. K. Challoner)
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"There is a way to resolve the current crises and tensions our polarized nations and their conflicting political systems are experiencing. It is known by various names: the Path of Synthesis, the Third Way, the Way of the Disciple, or simply, the Way of the Soul."
Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self
(Alan Oken)
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"We desperately need a unifying world view to help heal the world's endless fractures. What problems could not be solved by first considering the good of the whole, of the lives of all those on our planet, rather than special interests!"
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight
(Shirley Nicholson)
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"It can seem as if the world is falling to pieces….and yet the call keeps coming, a call, I think, which is not so much to power as to community with all those others who are wounded, whose worlds or lives also seem to be falling apart, and yet who are actually – we must believe – giving birth to something new." Veronica Brady, Australian writer
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Russian author, Nobel Prize 1970, 'The Gulap Archipelago'
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"We are all part of one spiritual family."
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
(Caroline Myss)
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"If men carried the concept of brotherhood with all its implications into the life and work of every day, whether between the capitalist and the labourer, the politician and the people, between nation and nation, or between race and race, there would emerge that peace on earth which nothing could upset or overturn."
A Treatise on White Magic
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"Give to each other real love in the times that lie ahead, for it is the fusing and illuminating element in the life of the disciple. Let not your love remain theoretical, but give that true understanding which ignores mistakes, recognises no barriers, refuses all separating thoughts, and surrounds each other with that protecting wall of love that meets all need wherever possible – physical, emotional and mental.
Discipleship in the New Age
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"To reach the sun nothing less is required than the combined growth of the entire foliage. The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human – these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of ALL TOGETHER, in a direction which ALL TOGETHER can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth."
The Phenomenon of Man
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"The core of my being is also the core of your being, and the core of all beings."
Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire
(Deepak Chopra)
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"There is no separation OF anything, FROM anything. There is only Unity. There is only Oneness."
Communion with God
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"As the Sufi sage Hazrat Inayat Khan said, 'The essence of spirituality and mysticism is readiness to serve the person next to us.'"
Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self
(Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)
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"We are one with that homeless person we saw going through the trash receptacle. The woman at the local market, the man who comes to check our gas meter, and all who have hurt us, abandoned us, and have otherwise wronged us, along with all the women and men we have never met – we are to realize that we are equally, fully one with every blessed one of them."
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
(James Finley)
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"There are NO radically separate entities anywhere – the boundary between subject and object is ultimately illusory."
The Atman Project
(Ken Wilber)
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"You are not separate from other beings or the environment. This understanding cannot be merely intellectual. It must be experiential, the insight gained by deep touching and deep looking in a daily life of prayer, contemplation, and meditation."
Living Buddha, Living Christ
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
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"True community includes those we disagree with. Community building, whether on our block or across national or cultural divides, is the great work of our new millennium."
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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