God is the universal soul

• The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. Chrysippus
• The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul. Marcus Aurelius
• There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things. Wayne Dyer
• The Self (soul) when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe – the body – is the soul. Swami Vivekanada
• Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth. Paulo Coelho
• The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, ‘neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky’s brow my glorious creed I trace. Alphonse de Lamartine
• The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe. Novalis

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…the great soul of the universe…

• We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. Laurence Binyon
• The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. Bill Vaughan
• The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same. Deepak Chopra
• Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv’st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion. William Wordsworth

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…the Oversoul…

• The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom. Ram Dass

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…the Supreme Soul…

• God is the Soul of all souls – The Supreme Soul – The Supreme Consciousness. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God. Radhanath Swami
• Just as the Atman (soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. Radhakrishnan
• Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages say, this universe springs from, The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul), the source of life. Eknath Easwaran
• The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth. Rabindranath Tagore

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…one soul throughout the universe…

• The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God . Giordano Bruno
• We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no ‘you’ or ‘me’; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence – God. Swami Vivekananda
• From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. Georg Hermes
• I am Brahman (God)… I dwell within all beings as the soul, the pure consciousness, the ground of all phenomena… In the days of my ignorance, I used to think of these as being separate from myself. Now I know that I am All. Shankara
• We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass. Marcus Aurelius
• There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence – “Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick – thou art All – in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee.” Swami Vivekananda
• There is one soul that connects and exists in all living beings, regardless of their shapes or forms, and there is no distinction, no superior, no inferior, no separate devotee soul (Atman), no separate god soul (Brahman). The oneness unifies all beings, there is divine in every being, and that all existence is a single reality. A Rambachan

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Each soul is part of the universal soul that is God

• Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe. Plotinus
• You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love. Rumi
• Every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe. Giordano Bruno
• The members of humanity are really and truly souls. We’re all part of one great oversoul. Benjamin Creme
• The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul. Swami Vivekananda
• The soul of man… is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe. Plutarch
• From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. Georg Hermes
• We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul – yours and mine and everyone else’s on the planet – incarnates over and over and over again in a physical body, emotional astral body and mental body. These three bodies are temporary bodies that the soul creates and uses for a given time, long or short. Benjamin Crème

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Each soul is not different from the universal soul that is God

• The Atman (soul) is the Brahman (God), the Brahman is the Atman, each self is non-different from the infinite. Arvind Sharma
• As the Godhead is nameless, and all naming is alien to Him, so also the soul is nameless; for it is here the same as God. Meister Eckhart
• The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles. Paulo Coelho
• The Upanishads declare Tat twam asi – “You are That One”. That immanent one (God), is the same that is in the human soul. Not only that but you are Him – you are that one principle that has been manifesting itself as this variety of Creation. Pulkit Mathur
• … every soul is God’s soul, because it shares the same soul with God! Neale Donald Walsch