LIVING WHOLENESS
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"The song of kinship sings throughout creation and binds us all, one to another."
Origins of the Sacred
(Dudley Young)
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"God thinks wholly, God thinks unity, not division, for all – not just a piece – of creation is present to the Creator. And present NOW."
WHEE! We, wee All the Way Home
(Matthew Fox)
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"Looking deeply at any one thing, we see the whole cosmos. The one is made of the many."
Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
(Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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"They [the Mesopotamians] saw a unity in nature and harmony in the universe which bound together all objects and all events."
The Roots of Consciousness
(Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.)
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"The human soul is made of the same elements as the world soul."
The History of Magic and the Occult
(Kurt Seligmann)
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"We need to recognize, to the depths of our souls, that we are all part of one whole, that what each of us does individually has a powerful impact on us all."
The Path of Transformation, How Healing Ourselves Can Change The World
(Shakti Gawain)
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"We shall be saved by an option that has chosen the whole."
Science and Christ
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"The universe is one, infinite…There is no proportionate part, nor part at all, which differs from the whole." Giordano Bruno, 'De la Causa', Dialogue 5
Ethics
(Benedict Spinoza)
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"A body may be considered divorced from its relations with other bodies…only conceptually. In fact, it can never be so detached: death itself being unable to detach it from its relation with the Univbersal forces, of which the one Force of Life is the synthesis."
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"In the sacred traditions of the past, we can find a holistic structure of creation and of human nature (also interesting in the light of modern theoretical physics)."
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"Each part of the universe contains enough information to reconstitute the whole. The form and structure of the entire world is enfolded within each part." Larry Dossey, M.D., 'Ancient Messages in Modern Science'
American Theosophist, The
(Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)
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"Most spiritual traditions use cultural language to describe an energetic universe. That is a universe that is first and foremost an energetic template from which material conditions and forms arise. This energetic sea connects us all."
Stone Age Wisdom, The Healing Principles of Shamanism
(Tom Crockett)
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"The psyche contains an indwelling sense of its destiny of wholeness."
The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead
(Stephan A. Hoeller)
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"Like all things, the human mind follows the principle inherent in its own essence, and, as we find it to be through all of Nature, this principle is that it realize itself, integrate itself, become whole in relation to its potentialities."
Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning
(Ira Progoff, Ph.D.)
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"An illumined being knows his or her true place in the greater Universe and understands the unity underlying all consciousness, whether individual or Divine." Jay Kinney, introduction
The Inner West, An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West
(Jay Kinney, editor)
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"Every part of the part contains knowledge of the whole of the Whole."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"To see soundly is to see whole."
Creative Vision for Art and for Life
(Richard Guggenheimer)
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"Ancient traditions – Buddhism, Hinduism, and others – have consistently shown that the unity of man and universe is a fundamental criterion for our existence."
American Theosophist, The
(Dora Kunz, Executive Editor)
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"The world Soul-Spirit animates all bodies."
Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge
(Zolar)
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"In that fullness of unity the whole is fully present in the part."
The Glorious Presence
(Ernest E. Wood)
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"Cells and organs [in the human body] independently keep the rhythm of life, and yet they work together to maintain a consistent order in their interrelated functions. Here we can see a most exquisite harmony between the individual parts and the whole living organism."
Dialogue on Life, Buddhist Perspectives on Life and the Universe
(Daisaku Ikeda)
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"That one Whole underlies the obvious multiplicity of the universe is a postulate deep-seated in man's mind."
The Manifold and The One
(Agnes Arber)
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"Twenty-five hundred years ago it took an exceptional man like Diogenes to exclaim, 'I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world.' Today we must all be struggling to make those words our own. We have come to the point in history when anyone who is only Japanese or American, only Oriental or Occidental, is only half human. The other half that beats with the pulse of all humanity has yet to be born."
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"Heraclitus said, 'All things are full of souls and spirits'; Thales, that the 'soul is intermingled' with matter; Anaximenes, that we must revere the breath for it connects us to the respiration of the cosmos; Anaximander, that the earth is constantly creative and that its many life forms are always in relationship."
A Passion for This Earth, Exploring a New Partnership of Man, Woman & Nature
(Valerie Andrews)
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"Prayer is not an attempt to get God to come to our rescue; rather, it is a refocusing of our consciousness from the appearance of lack and limitation to the reality of wholeness." Eric Butterworth, Unity minister and radio broadcaster, 'The Age of Wisdom'
New Thoughts for a New Millennium
(Michael A. Maday, editor)
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