“The Gospel of John says that in the beginning was the Word, and that the Word was God, and that all things were made by the Word.” Meditations on the Apocalypse, A Psycho-Spiritual Perspective on the Book of Revelation F. Aster Barnwell

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1			"We share the one limitless energy that is within all life forms and actions. When we accept and acknowledge the beauty and perfection of each form this energy takes, we experience oneness." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
2			"We are all capable of bringing about what we set our minds to if it is for the good of the whole." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
3			"All cultures begin in explosions of myth in the minds of prophets, mystics, visionary scientists, artists and crazies. Whether it is in the dreams of Descartes, Alfred Russell Wallace and Niels Bohr, or in the visions of Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed, culture springs from the depths." William Irwin Thompson, Foreword The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
4			"You may call this [life] energy positive and negative, even label it good and evil, but when the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is digested, you will see that all things are one, having emerged from the wars of opposites to unity." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
5			"Humanity represents the stage of Earth's unfoldment at which the planetary soul becomes not only self aware but functionally and creatively conscious of the processes through which growth, awareness and the externalization of spirit through form take place." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
6			"What greater vision could be given humankind than for God to say to us, 'You are my beloveds. Build with me, create with me.'" The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
7			"Man has the divine power of transcendence, of moving beyond pre-set patterns, of bridging the dimensions of form and spirit, potential and actuality, image and fulfillment." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
8			"Man is given the gift of creative imagination and must create the vision of what must be done." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
9			"You are the gardener of your own being, the seed of your destiny." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
10			"Man's consciousness must expand to new insights and into deeper communion with and dominion over his own nature. Out of this can come a divine power to transform our planet." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
11			"The most sacred esoteric teachings throughout the ages have held that in understanding the inner and outer realities of nature, humanity can understand itself." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
12			"God is your supply, not the vine nor the tree, nor the soil nor other human beings, nor the kingdoms of nature. God is your source of supply." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
13			"This idea of a life and spirit informing nature and directing its activities is not new within human culture; it is the basis for such philosophies as animism and pantheism." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
14			"The esoteric traditions of all cultures speak of the 'withinness' of things that seeks to externalize and to fulfill itself. If we think of our planet as an organic, growing system – a living being – then it, too, has an image of fulfillment buried within its seed center, an image that is using all of nature as its means of emergence." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
15			"All participate in and reflect the same universal processes of growth. Our planet is informed with a life and a spirit which is gradually unfolding itself, realizing its latent potentials. This process repeats itself on every level of being." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
16			"Out of separation comes synthesis, and out of domination comes cooperation. This is the promise of recreating the Garden that is Earth's essence." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
17			"Mankind has an inherent sensitivity to the needs of Earth and to the plan of God." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
18			"All living things are part of the whole, placed there by divine plan and purpose." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
19			"Life is ceaselessly growing, moving on, learning, rising and becoming more and more conscious." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
20			"To heal the Earth, which is our greater body, we must create an ecological balance within as well as without. We do so by recognizing that the basis of life is interrelationship." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
21			"We have many opportunities every day through which to learn of the unity in apparent separation. We can work toward it in every moment." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
22			"If we would discover the promise of the divine image within us, our actions must reflect the wholeness and love of the Nourisher and the Promise, the Seed and the Fulfillment, moving us towards the One." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
23			"Man cannot grow unless he learns to understand his oneness with his world." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
24			"The more God's creatures know of one another the greater the unity and peace." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
25			"If we treat everything as alive, intelligent and part of the One Life, our own life is greatly enriched." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
26			"The image of God is the process of divinity itself, and that is a process of growth, of nourishment, of wisdom, light and love. It is the process of life unfolding itself into greater levels of freedom and knowing and expression." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
27			"We are told to turn within, to seek God within….But this withinness is not contained in my physical body which would limit it; it is in all dimensions of space and time; it is infinite, the eternal now." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
28			"The truth is within me and within you – the whole of it. Where anything exists, God is. Not part of God but God indivisible." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
29			"When you delve deeply into anything you will find God is there." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
30			"All have the breath of God in them. The air you breathe – is it not full of God, is it not your life force? All of creation shares in it, contributes something to it." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
31			"As we begin to recognize God in every aspect of the world around us, that part of the world is redeemed, until ultimately the whole planet is redeemed." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
32			"To do God's will you must attempt to see with his vision, know with his love, live with his life. It is as simple as that. It is not a complex pattern." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
33			"God's will is the path we tread which develops the best for us and for all we encounter." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
34			"As human beings, we can choose to see each element of creation as separate. Or we can choose to see the one life that is within them all." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
35			"Man has freedom of choice and thus the power to create." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
36			"Every decision you make, you choose whether you make it for the small self or whether you seek divine guidance and follow that." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
37			"The essence of all growth processes is, in fact, divinity." 1 The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
38			"God is everywhere. He is not large. He is not small." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
39			"God is the Lord and the Lover, the Creator and the Nourisher, the Seed, the Promise and the Fulfillment of all forms of nature and of the Earth and of the cosmos beyond." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
40			"God is within all life." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
41			"God is an indwelling presence, the core of what I am and what everything is. God is life itself, speaking through all life." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
42			"God is within everyone, the very thing everyone lives by." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
43			"I know that God is within each one of us, within everything." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
44			"Through love we can blend with the consciousnes of a plant or with the consciousness of another human being." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
45			"Love is the energy of acceptance that cuts through the apparent barriers and links us with every part of life." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
46			"Through love, we recognize and enhance the interrelationship of all life forms." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
47			"Love is always the fundamental key in guiding our awareness." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
48			"The power and laws of manifestation can only function best where there is love." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
49			"Love all of life and so join up with it. Never forget that all of it is part of the Creator and that all of it is also part of you." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)
50			"Love is a firm reality which forms a bridge over which all can walk." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)