unity

Ensō painting - Kobori Jotai

“Love can have but one motive, to give out from itself in order to find unity. The greatest urge in all Nature is UNITY.” - Lao Russell

“O son of utterance! Thou art My stronghold; enter therein that thou mayest abide in safety. My love is in thee, know it, that thou mayest find Me near unto thee.” - Baha'u'llah

“And as the rainbow is a light within the Light, inseparable, so is man’s Self within Me, inseparable; and so is his image My image.” - universal One (via Walter Russell)

“I and My Father are One.” - “What I am, ye also are” - “Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?” - “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” - Jesus

“Knowing not Me in them, they are alone in all the universe; but knowing Self of them as Me in them, they then are Me; they then, with Me, are all My universe.” - universal One (via Walter Russell)

“Seek Me. Know Me. Be Me. All men will come to Me in due time, but theirs is the agony of awaiting.” - universal One (via Walter Russell)

“For, I say, there are two opposed ways in the journey of man from his jungle to his mountain top. One leads backward to the darkness of his primal jungle. The other way leads to Me. Man may choose his way, for man’s purpose in manifesting Me is to find his way out of the dark to Light of Me throughout long ages of new knowing through repeating action.” - universal One (via Walter Russell)

“Man still thinketh of himself as one of countless many men, each one a separate being, each one an entity, an ego, an individual person. He knoweth not yet of his unity with all other men, nor with Me. Nor knoweth he yet that he must lose his treasured individuality to find universality of knowing in Me.” - universal One (via Walter Russell)

“Life by life, and age by age will pass with your greater and still greater awareness of that fact until gradually that individuality which you think of as your PERSON will merge into the PERSON of the One Being whom all men already are.” - Walter Russell

“Many days and nights I was guardian of the pearl of my soul; now in the current of the ocean of pearls I am indifferent to my own pearl.” - Rumi

“All the Perfect Ones merge into Great Tao. Follow this Path! By doing so you will not harm yourself, on the contrary, you will achieve calm, harmony, and the fullness of life. I, in the state of non-doing, travel in the Infinity of Tao. One cannot convey this with words! Tao is the Most Subtle and Blissful!” - Lao Tzu

“There is one path; annihilation of the false ego in the real, which raises the mortal to immortality, in which resides all perfection.” - Inayat Khan

“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.” - J.L. Borges

“The practices which make for union with the Soul are: fervent aspiration, spiritual reading, and complete obedience to the Master.” - Patanjali

“Knowledge is a great mountain. You climb it slowly, and you learn to live at its higher altitudes. You cannot simply run up this mountain eagerly. You must progress in such a way that you can integrate all of the steps of learning as you go. This requires an extremely wise form of preparation. It also requires the presence of wise companions who can help you understand what you are doing and can give you a good perspective on yourself.” - M.V. Summers

“You must know specifically how bodies are made and kept in balance, and their every other function kept in balance, for mankind is ever walking a tightrope and depending absolutely upon his balancing extensions, and it is so easy to crash by loss of balance. The trouble with life is that all of us are continually losing our balance in hundreds of little things which almost pass unnoticed, but it is their sum total which gages both our safety and our progress.” - Walter Russell

“Never forget that what you are DOING in the divided visible universe is a manifestation of what you are THINKING in the undivided invisible universe.” - Walter Russell

“Be it understood, however, that the brain of the body is not the Intelligence of the person who inhabits the body. Automatic reflexes make it possible for us to do about 99% of the things we do with about 1% of thought energy expended. The Mind is free to create patterns for ideas and make decisions for our actions, for upon those decisions and actions lie the success or failure of our lives.” - Walter Russell

African masks - expressive symbols of personality traits, archetypes, spiritual forces and ancestral history

“Much of the fear that you experience moment to moment is simply a matter of your own creation, your own negative imagination (…) Negative imagination drains you emotionally, physically and mentally. It can be escalated to such heights that it can dominate your thinking altogether. For how else can you be separate in the universe except in your own thoughts? You cannot actually be separate from God. You cannot actually be separate from Knowledge. You can only hide in your own thoughts and weave them together to create a separate identity and experience for yourself which, though quite demonstrative, are in fact completely an illusion.” - M.V. Summers

“God has sent you into the world to be in the world at this time, facing these circumstances. But what God has placed within you to prepare you, to equip you and to strengthen you for the difficult times ahead is something that resides beyond the realm and the reach of the intellect, in a deeper intelligence called Knowledge. At the surface of the mind, you are swept by the winds of the world. You are chaotic. Your life does not seem to have a true direction. You are influenced by so many things from the outside. Your life can feel chaotic, confused, disorganized, disintegrated, disregulated — however you may choose to describe it. But at a deeper level beneath the surface of the mind, there is a greater intelligence within you. This intelligence is here to guide you, to protect you and to prepare you to live a greater life in service to living in a new world. It is a dangerous time, but for you, it is the right time to be in the world, for this is why you have come — not to hide out in fantasy, not to enrich yourself, not to pretend to be something you are not, not to live a life of avoidance and irresponsibility, but to be in the world to be of service to the world at this time, not only to meet the current needs of life, but to prepare for the future itself. Only Knowledge within you, the greater intelligence, knows of these things, and it must guide you in these matters. You must learn to yield to it and distinguish it from all the other voices in your mind and all the influences that pull upon you from the world around you.” - M.V. Summers

“Do not allow yourself to be receptive to the ambivalence that permeates the world. Maintain your distance from this ambivalence, for you are [probably] not yet strong enough with Knowledge to face ambivalence and to render your gift into an ambivalent world. Do not be ambitious in this regard, or you will overstep your capacity and will fail as a result. As Knowledge grows and develops within you, it will lead you into areas where you are able to serve. It will lead you into situations where you have an adequate capacity to render it.” - M.V. Summers

“Your [surface] mind will not want to face the future. Your mind will want other things because the mind is weak and fallible. It is driven by fear and preference. But there is a greater mind within you, the mind of Knowledge. It is not distracted. It is not in conflict with itself. It is not subject to seduction by the world or by any other force, for it only responds to God. It is the only part of you that is completely pure and reliable, and it is the only part of you that is wise. It contains your greater purpose for coming into the world, and it represents your fundamental relationship with God, which has not been lost in separations.” - M.V. Summers

“Knowledge will not speak to you if you are not ready to take action. You will just hear what you want to hear, and nothing important will have happened. But if you are ready to take action, if you are sincere, if you are capable, if you are open to this, Knowledge will speak to you - in a word, in a feeling, in a message from another person, in an insight, in a thought, in a dream, in a vision. In whatever avenue Knowledge can reach you at this point in your life, it will reach you.” - M.V. Summers

“Truly the world is awaiting your contribution, but remember your contribution will express itself in all things you do, great and small. So do not imagine for yourself a role that is grandiose or that will be devastatingly difficult. That is not The Way of Knowledge. Knowledge will express itself through all of your activities, for it is a presence you carry with you. As your mind and your life become free of conflict, this presence will express itself increasingly through you, and you will be a witness of Knowledge at work, both within yourself and within your life.” - M.V. Summers

sculpture of Gautama Buddha meditating
“Who can make the muddy water clear? Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.” - Lao-tzu

“Be still, and know that I am God” - Jesus

“Any individual who can acquire stillness in the world will become a source of Knowledge in the world, for Knowledge will express itself in the world wherever there is an opening in any mind.” - M.V. Summers

“Become accustomed to stillness because Knowledge is still. Become accustomed to stillness because in stillness you affirm your goodness and your worth. A mind at peace is not a mind at war. A mind at peace is not deceived by the world.” - M.V. Summers

“Where is God in relation to man? Where is the cosmic Light of all-knowing, in relation to the thought-wave universe of sensing? Where is the Source and Cause of all things in relation to the effect? The answer might be better comprehended if we think of the invisible universe of cosmic Light as the still universe of power — and of the visible universe as the moving universe which manifest power. This is a universe of Light at rest from which light waves of motion spring to manifest the power which is within Light at rest. Whenever stillness is there God is — and God is everywhere. Whenever man desires to express power through motion, he must find a point of stillness where God is in order to express that power.” - Walter Russell

“The way to gradually attain cosmic consciousness is to intensify one's conscious awareness by much aloneness and companionship with God while manifesting Him in every moment and in every task of life. Moment-by-moment companionship with God brings with it so great a realization of Oneness with Him that the transformation into that full realization of unity is apt to take place at any time.” - Walter Russell

“Behold I am in Thee. Enfold thou me. I, my Self, am reaching out to Thee, well decentrated in thy Light. I am wholly in the Spirit. My abode in my body is far. My body’s abode on its planet is far. I am in thy Light, knowing Thy Light. I am wholly Thee, knowing Thy knowing, translating the pulsing rhythms of Thy thinking into words, knowing full well that the very least of these, Thy words, will long outlive the span of man upon that now far world where thou hast again cast me for one more life of unfolding thy knowing, that Thy new Word writ through me may be another dawn for awakening man. Speak Thou through me. Manifest Thou through Thy messenger. Upon my heart are heavy questionings. Write thou Thy answers there in Light waves which transform Thy knowing into Thy imaged thinking. Unfold Thy being, dynamically, and be Thou me as I write man’s word from wordless Light.” - Walter Russell (during his cosmic comm-union)