“It is important to remember that when someone truly works on self-actualization and personal growth, he or she also works for the world (as one becomes more conscious, knowledgeable, loving, capable, responsible), just as one who truly works for the world is working on his own development and perfection (since every objective action in the world has a subjective reaction in the psyche and on the person). Hence, the two are really two sides of the same coin.”
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity - Peter Roche deCoppens
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THE GLORIOUS PRESENCE
Ernest E. Wood
An explanation of the Vedanta Philosophy, including Shankara's Ode to the South-facing Form.
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"Knowledge depends principally on a mental act of unity. The advance of knowledge is the discovery of unity."
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"The Vedanta Philosophy has as its basis the belief that the universe of our experience is only one reality and it can be known."
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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
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"A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"This belief that our world is one indivisible thing is held by modern scientists today, and they come very near to proving it also – at least nothing ever happens to create a doubt of its truth….the world of our experience is in some way one."
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"Things are not independent, clear-cut, definite-boundaried objects….Each one is what it is because there is a principle of oneness which is the essential cause and basis of all. Each is in some way all. That is the nature of being. Nothing IS that is not essentially all."
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"The whole reflects into every part."
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"I see that when souls reach a certain clearness of perfection, they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Every little thing can be a gateway to infinity."
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"Greece, Rome, Chaldea, Peru, Egypt and all live now in us. Their material triumphs have turned to dust, their old languages are dead, but the gain of character that was achieved by those ancient labors is ours now and forever."
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"One thing is sure – all is one; the world, mind and all."
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"We are brothers; sons of one sweet mother."
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"Everything is in intimate touch with other things….with no empty space between. This is a dance in which the partners are holding each other closely."
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"From the unreal to the real is not from one thing to another, but from the complexity of duality and multiplicity to the simplicity of unity."
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"The one cause – which is the Whole – is what existence is and what we are."
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"Somehow everything is Brahman. We have constantly to remind ourselves of this piece of knowledge and then we shall value our present experience."
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"Man CAN KNOW that one reality – men have known it in the past and can do so now."
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"The world is of one piece, the same spirit which is in the saddle in the globe is also in the atom."
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"There is an entelechy or active operation of form-building in Nature, and therefore a teleological purpose or design showing progress in Nature."
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"We cannot get away from one ultimate enveloping cause, present in all causes and constituting their essential nature."
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"Everything that occurs is worthy of our most appreciative attention, since it is in some way Brahman."
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"If I were to try to name the new era, I would say it is characterized, whether consciously or not, by an inward-rising feeling of sympathy and companionship with other men and all things."
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"That the whole world is constituted of the One Reality is one of the essential principles of Vedantic thought."
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"There is something marvellous in the power within a seed, and when that seed is the human soul, containing the powers of will, thought and love, no one should dare to measure its possibilities by an undeveloped imagination…it is for him to be his own gardener, to understand his own destiny, and to make his circumstances assist him in its swift achievement."
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"Being IS unity."
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