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LIVING WHOLENESS
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"Human beings are woven into the entire cosmic network. Hence we may speak of a kind of functional integrity or unity in the universe, by which everything that is is linked to everything else that is."
The Hidden Jesus: A New Life
(Donald Spoto, Ph. D.)
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"The whole is present in each part, in each level of existence. The living reality, which is total and unbroken and undivided, is in everything." David Bohm
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ
(Matthew Fox)
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"Our individual consciousnesses are like drops of water taken from an ocean: each drop is unique, with its own particular qualities and identity; yet each drop is also of the same essence as the ocean."
The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness
(Peter Russell)
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"The world is not a fortuitous organization of atoms but an intelligent and intelligible organization or system, itself comprised of a myriad subsystems – of wholes within larger, more encompassing wholes, or lives within lives." 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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"The goal of all development is integration – integration as a personality, integration with the soul….integration with the Whole."
Esoteric Healing
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"Organisms shape themselves in response to their neighbors and their environments. All respond to one another, co-evolving and co-creating the complex systems of organization that we see in nature. Life is systems-seeking. It seeks organization. Organization is a naturally occuring phenomenon. Self-organization is the powerful force by which Gaia created herself through relationships, creating all the living systems we see. She knows how to organize from the inside out, from partnering with neighors rather than from imposition and control." Margaret J. Wheatley, 'Reclaiming Gaia, Reclaiming Life'
The Fabric of the Future
(M. J. Ryan, editor)
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"The doctrine of the microcosm – the human as the universe in miniature – is a common theme among the esoteric teachings, and among its other qualities, this idea has the virtue of theoretically joining the inner life in all its possible levels to the world of nature and beyond, even up to the Creator." Antoine Faivre
Modern Esoteric Spirituality
(Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors)
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"We are interpenetrating parts of the evolutionary process of the Cosmos, connected and interrelated."
The Eternal Dance
(LaVedi Lafferty and Bud Hollowell, Ph.D.)
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"We cannot possibly see the whole of what we are, if we persist in seeing the parts of our nature and nature's parts as disassociated entities. Defining things without considering their relationships with other things is a fatal flaw in descriptive analysis."
Breaking the Mind Barrier
(Todd Siler)
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"The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus wrote, 'The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human by nature, endeared to each other.'"
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles
(Caroline Myss)
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"Unity has room for all diversities." Deepak Chopra, foreword
The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment
(Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)
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"Underlying the evident multiplicity and diversity of beings, there is also a subtle unity. All these things, be they mineral, animal, or vegetable, be they plants, men, or merely atoms, are somehow linked together by a common bond of being."
Introductory Metaphysics
(Avery R. Dulles, James M. Demske, Robert J. O'Connell)
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"When Buddhist scholars look at quantum mechanics, they tend to go, 'Aha, aha, this is what we've been saying all the time. Phenomena are all interdependent.' What looked to be isolated phenomena at an energetic level aren't isolated at all. Everything's related to everything else." Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Angels: The Mysterious Messengers
(Rex Hauck, editor)
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"All beings exist as seemingly insular items and yet as integral and inseparable parts of the whole."
Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era
(Meredith L. Young)
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"Human and Cosmos are not only reciprocally related but, even though the apparent forms differ, [are] mirror images of each other."
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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"A society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them."
Catechism of the Catholic Church
(Various)
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"Every gesture embodies the whole self, including the history of that self." Elizabeth Swados, musician, writer
Genesis: A Living Conversation
(Bill Moyers)
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"The bread we eat is the whole cosmos."
Living Buddha, Living Christ
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
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"'I', each of us as an 'I', is an expression of the whole process of creation. In our genes are all the generations come alive now. Our atoms, molecules, cells, organs, and early brain have the memory of the whole story of creation. We are awakening to that story as our own birth story." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Dicscovery of a New Ordering of the Future'
New Thoughts for a New Millennium
(Michael A. Maday, editor)
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"Biological forms and functions are not simply determined by a genetic blueprint but are emergent properties of the entire epigenetic network."
The Hidden Connections
(Fritjof Capra)
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"The integrating principle of the whole – the Spirit, as it were, of the universe – instinct without contrivance, flows with purpose." George Romanes, Charles Darwin's colleague
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"Plato's cardinal idea was that there existed a permanent principle of unity beneath the forms, changes, and other phenomena of the universe."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"Each act of free will is adapted to such an arrangement of the whole as the settled order of the universe demands." Origen, 'On Prayer'
Alexandrian Christianity
(John E. L. Oulton, editor)
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"The same universal Intelligence and Energy which animates and governs one form of life also animates and governs all other forms of life."
Kinship With All Life
(J. Allen Boone)
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"Every monad reflects every other. Every monad is a living mirror of the Universe within its own sphere."
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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