Structured by Growth
“From the smallest individual detail to the vastest aggregations, our living universe (in common with our inorganic universe) has a structure, and this structure can owe its nature only to a phenomenon of growth.”
–Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French Jesuit Priest, Mystic, Paleontologist and Author, 1881-1955)
“The Divine Milieu (Perennial Classics)” (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
After a Near-Death Experience
“Through the years, people have related, oh, five hundred or six hundred near-death experiences to me. When people come back out of that experience of light, they’ll often say that they have a sense that everything is interconnected. In some way that’s hard to put into words, we’re all the same. We all share one mind. And it doesn’t stop with people, it has to do, too, with trees and plants and living things.”
–Joan Borysenko (American Psychologist, Writer, Mystic and Speaker, 1945-)
The Universal Soul
“All living souls in the world cumulatively make up part of a universal soul…. the soul giving us vitality is connected to, and draws sustenance from, a universal soul.”
–Rabbi David A. Cooper (American Rabbi and Writer, 1939-)
“God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism” (David A. Cooper)
A Single Undivided Whole
“Ultimately, the entire universe has to be understood as a single undivided whole.”
–David Bohm (American-born Theoretical Physicist and Philosopher, 1917-1992)
“RC Series Bundle: Wholeness and the Implicate Order” (David Bohm)
Thinking in Wholes
“If we think of the totality as constituted of independent fragments, then that is how our minds will tend to operate, but if we can include everything, coherently and harmoniously in one overall whole that is undivided, unbroken….then our minds will tend to move in a similar way, and from this will flow an orderly action within the whole.”
–David Bohm (American-born Theoretical Physicist and Philosopher, 1917-1992)
“RC Series Bundle: Wholeness and the Implicate Order” (David Bohm)
Hiding Behind Four Veils
“Four veils hide God from us: solids, liquids, gases and light. Lift these veils and find God everywhere, in everything.”
–Paramahansa Yogananda (Indian Spiritual Teacher and, in 1920, Founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship, 1893-1952)
One With Mother Earth
“Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.
You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to the new striving and suffering. And not merely “some day.”
Now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over.”
–Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian Physicist and, in 1933, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1887-1961)
The Interdependent Universe
“Everything depends upon everything else, and, in fact, IS everything else as well as itself.”
–Ernest E. Wood (English Theosophist, Yoga Practitioner, Translator, Author and Professor of Physics, Principal and President of the Sind National College and the Madanapalle College, India, 1883-1965)
Breathing The Breath of Life
“Everyone should breathe in the divine Breath of Life with all his heart and sing his song of thanksgiving no less regularly than do the birds.”
–Vera Stanley Alder (English Painter and Mystic, 1898-1984)
The Unity of Reality
“Science recognizes today the inter-relationality of the universe. Relativity theory, quantum physics, post-Darwinian models of evolution, psychosomatic medicine, parapsychological research, biofeedback and, most of all, experience with Yoga and meditation support this basic vision.”
–Michael von Bruck (German Professor and Chair of Comparative Religious Studies at Munich University, 1949-)
