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#3673 - Friday,
October 2, 2009 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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The following series of
quotations is from http://www.workingwithoneness.org/about.html
About Oneness
Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to
live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is
being revealed, the opportunity that is offered. How we make use
of this opportunity depends upon the degree of our participation,
how much we are prepared to give ourselves to the work that needs
to be done, to the freedom that needs to be lived.
- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee from the book Working with Oneness
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of
being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet
events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are
part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world
in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the
world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this
mysterious plan.
-Thomas Keating
The realization that every act, every word, every thought of ours
not only influences our environment but for some mysterious
reason forms an integral and important part of the Universe, fits
into it as if by necessity so to say, in the very moment we do,
or say, or think it - is an overwhelming and even shattering
experience. The tremendous responsibility of it is terrifying. If
all of us only knew that the smallest act of ours, or a tiny
thought, has such far-reaching effects as to set in motion forces
which perhaps could shatter a galaxy…If we know it deeply
and absolutely, if this realization becomes engraved permanently
on our hearts, on our minds, how careful we would act and speak
and think. How precious life would become in its integral
oneness.
-Irina Tweedie
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All the phenomena of existence are one single thing in the
ultimate dimension of the unborn.
-from the Dzogchen Semde
We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together
exist, and forever will recreate each other.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of
oneness come all the many particulars.
-Heraclitus
This is the age of Holy Spirit, this is the age of the universal
principle -- the open, flexible field of consciousness, the
understanding of the unity of life in the multiplicity of human
experience, so that we find in our culture again that hidden
unity which transcends the fate of multiplicity and nemesis. As I
see it this creative spirit which has entered our world is
causing such disturbance that it will have to be answered by the
spirit of the earth which we have denied as much as we have
denied the spirits of the higher worlds. We have denied the
spirit of the earth, and that spirit of the earth has to appear
in woman. The meeting of the spirit of the earth and the spirit
of the other world is one of the great moments that, I believe,
will come in the future history of culture.
- Cecil Collins from The Vision of the Fool and Other Writings
All rights reserved, the Tate Gallery
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part
limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts
and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of
optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of
prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to
free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is
determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they
have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a
substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
-Albert Einstein
How can the divine Oneness be seen?
In beautiful forms, breathtaking wonders,
awe-inspiring miracles?
The Tao is not obliged to present itself
in this way.
If you are willing to be lived by it, you will
see it everywhere, even in the most
ordinary things.
-Lao Tsu
Chandogya Upanishad
In the beginning was only Being,
One without a second.
Out of himself he brought forth the cosmos
And entered into everything in it.
There is nothing that does not come from him.
Of everything he is the innermost Self.
He is the truth; he is the Self supreme.
You are that, Shvetaketu; you are that.
As the rivers flowing east and west
Merge in the sea and become one with it,
Forgetting they were ever separate streams,
So do all creatures lose their separateness
When they merge at last into pure Being.
There is nothing that does not come from him.
Of everything he is the innermost Self.
He is the truth; he is the Self supreme.
You are that, Shvetaketu; you are that!
Tao Te Ching
If the people of the world were wise enough
to plant the root of their lives
deep within the Subtle Origin
Then the worldly affairs of life
would coherently follow their natural course
and harmony would abound of its own nature…
Then the peaceful order of the universe prevails
and unity manifests again of its own accord.
-from the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu, trans. Hua-Ching Ni
See the One -- know the One and affirm that it is
One
Whether at the beginning or at the end, all of this
is only one single thing
Alas the eye of man sees double.
- Attar from The Book of Secrets
How wonderful that a single Essence should
Refract itself like light, a single source
Into a million essences and hues.
- Shâh Ne’matollâh from The Drunken Universe
When you make the two one and
When you make the inner as the outer and the above
As below, and when
You make the male and the female into a single one
Then you shall enter the kingdom.
-The Gospel of Thomas
The soul is all things together…. And since it is the center
of all things, it has the forces of all. Hence it passes into all
things. And since it is the true connection of all things, it
goes to the one without leaving the others … therefore it
may rightly be called the center of nature, the middle term of
all things, the face of all, the bond and juncture of the
universe.
-from The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino by Marsilio Ficino
For those who are awake the cosmos is one.
-Heraclitus
Listen, O dearly beloved!
I am the reality of the world, the center of the circumference,
I am the parts and the whole.
I am the will established between Heaven and Earth
-Ibn ‘Arabî
A hundred things
a million or more
if you look to their reality
are one
-Fakhruddin Iraqi