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Enveloped in Your Light, may I be a beacon to those in search of Light. Sheltered in Your Peace, may I offer shelter to those in need of peace. Embraced by Your Presence, so may I be present to others.
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Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.
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The Mystic Rose Garden
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Contribution #6744
“Having no religion does not mean having no religious beliefs, rather it means that you choose not to pick a specific religious sect to exclusively identify with.” ~ atypican
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
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I am a node connected to all other nodes in a greater cosmic web without a weaver, for all things are woven by themselves through the laws of Nature.
I believe in Spinoza's God, who ‘reveals himself in the harmony of all being’.
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Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.
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I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.From there, something shifts for me. I can see that we're all actually co-creating our future moment to moment - which feels like endless possibility.
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We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
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Charter for Compassion - trailer
Contribution #6282
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. [while admiring fish in an aquarium]
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When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
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There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win…. Note how often...we have been surprised. By the sudden emergence of a people's movement, the sudden overthrow of a tyranny, the sudden coming to life of a flame we thought extinguished. We are surprised because we have not taken notice of the quiet simmerings of indignation, of the first faint sounds of protest, of the scattered signs of resistance that, in the midst of our despair, portend the excitement of change. The isolated acts begin to join, the individual thrusts blend into organized actions, and one day, often when the situation seems most hopeless, there bursts onto the scene a movement.
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Tapping into something beyond ourselves is something we are all able to do, and which has the capacity to evoke gratefulness within us.
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Despair, Self-Deception, and Authentic Possibilities
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Contribution #6104
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
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"The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit."
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"One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."
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"Having seen his own self as the Self, he becomes selfless and in virtue of selflessness he is to be conceived as unconditioned. This is the highest mystery, betokening emancipation; through selflessness he has no part in pleasure or pain, but achieves absoluteness."
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“When I heard the sound of the bell ringing, there was no bell, and there was no I- there was only the ringing.”
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“The deeper the self-realization of a person, the more they influence the whole universe by their subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less they themselves are affected by the phenomenal flux.”
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“Through knowledge of the Self comes knowledge of the Universe.”
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“…consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.”
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“…evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.”
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“According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not ‘matter’. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.”
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“Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other’s presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our lifeforce, and then we go on carrying that person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, ‘Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place.’ This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on.”
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“Wisdom can be divided into two: the original wisdom, and the wisdom gained after satori. Original wisdom is the great wisdom of equality, and is inborn; but the wisdom gained after satori is the wonderful wisdom of differentiation.”
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“One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.”
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“My dear brothers and sisters, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.”
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“…man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.”
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“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.”
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“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty…No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty…Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.”
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“The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.”
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“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been made holy by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be voiceless and dead as they swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people. And the very dust upon which you now stand responds lovingly to their footsteps because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch.”
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“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.”
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“…the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.”
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“Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.”
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“One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.”
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“Separateness is a kind of optical delusion of consciousness that restricts us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all creatures and the whole of nature.”
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“Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one’s foot has caught fire”
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“Nobody has a heart with separate batteries- they all have the same source.”
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“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
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“When we consider and reflect upon Nature at large or at the history of mankind or our own intellectual activity, at first we see the picture of an endless entanglement of relations and reactions, permutations and combinations, in which nothing remains what, where and as it was, but everything moves, changes, comes into being and passes away. We see, therefore, at first the picture as a whole, with its individual parts still more or less kept in the background; we observe the movements, transitions, connections, rather than the things that move, combine and are connected. This primitive naïve but intrinsically correct conception of the world is that of Ancient Greek philosophy, and was first clearly formulated by Heraclitus; everything is and is not, for everything is fluid, is constantly changing, constantly coming into being and passing away.”
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“God is unified oneness- one without two, inestimable. Genuine divine existence engenders the existence of all creation. The sublime, inner essences secretly constitute a chain linking everything from the highest to the lowest, extending from the upper pool to the edge of the universe. There is nothing- not even the tiniest thing- that is not fastened to the links of this chain. Everything is catenated in its mystery, caught in its oneness. God is one, God’s secret is one, all the worlds below and above are all mysteriously one. Divine existence is indivisible. The entire chain is One. Down to the last link, everything is linked with everything else; so divine essence is below as well as above, in heaven and on earth. There is nothing else.”
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“Each of us emerges from Ein Sof (The Unnameable One) and is included in it. We live through its dissemination. It is the perpetuation of existence. The fact that we sustain ourselves on vegetation and animal life does not mean that we are nourished on something outside of it. This process is like a revolving wheel, first descending, then ascending. It is all one and the same, nothing is separate from it. Though life branches out further and further, everything is joined to Ein Sof, included and abiding in it. Delve into this. Flashes of intuition will come and go, and you will discover a secret here. If you are deserving, you will understand the mystery of God on your own.”
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“There is no path to peace- Peace is the path.”
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“Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.”
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“Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.”
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“The path of the electron comes into existence only when we observe it.”
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“Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interactions with other systems.”
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“’Participant’ is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the ‘observer’ of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can’t be done, quantum mechanics says it…May the universe in some sense be ‘brought into being’ by the participation of those who participate?”
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“In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc…Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.”
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“All time is present now.”
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“There is no space-time, there is no time, there is no before, there is no after. The question ‘what happens next?’ is without meaning.”
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“Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.”
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“Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche.”
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“Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.”
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“It is as if the formation of patterns within the unconscious mind is accompanied by physical patterns in the outer world. In particular, as psychic patterns are on the point of reaching consciousness, the synchronicities reach their peak; moreover, they generally disappear as the individual becomes consciously aware of a new alignment of forces within his or her own personality…It is as if the internal restructuring produces external resonance, or as if a burst of ‘mental energy’ is propagated outward onto the world.”
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“The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection…A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.”
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“We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects…All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.”
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“I could feel the golden chain of adepts reaching back into the distant Hellenistic past, the Hermetic Opus, a project vaster than empires and centuries; nothing less than the redemption of fallen humanity through the re spiritualization of matter…We are closing distance with the most profound event a planetary ecology can encounter: the emergence of life from the dark chrysalis of matter…the simultaneous coexistence of an alien dimension all around us…If the world beyond the doorway can be given consensual validation of the sort extended to the electron or the black hole- in other words, if the world beyond the doorway is found to be a necessary part of scientifically mature thinking about the world- then our own circumscribed historical struggle will be subject to whole new worlds of possibility.”
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“…situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space…If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.”
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“Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs re-adjustment.”
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“Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical…We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.”
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“The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.”
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“The ‘coming of the Self’ is immanent; and the process of collective ‘individuation’ is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.”
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“Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as ‘enlightenment’, ‘the nature of the mind’, and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.”
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“Doesn’t the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?”
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“…reality only exists where pure light and pure dark merge to form an image.”
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“I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.”
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“Objects obey quantum laws- they spread in possibility following the equation discovered by Erwin Schodinger- but the equation is not codified within the objects. Likewise, appropriate non-linear equations govern the dynamical response of bodies that have gone through the conditioning of quantum memory, although this memory is not recorded in them. Whereas classical memory is recorded in objects like a tape, quantum memory is truly the analog of what the ancients call Akashic memory, memory written in Akasha, Emptiness- nowhere.”
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“But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a life that is would-be sentient, to be more than sentient, to be again divinely self-conscious, free, infinite, immortal.”
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“The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth.”
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“What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where ‘the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere’? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.”
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“The essence of information…is not its content but its resonance. This is why feeling or sensing things is so important. To sense the resonance of incoming information co-creates a resonant field.”
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“Our subjective-objective distinctions are incorrect…Matter, Energy, and Consciousness form a continuum.”
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“Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable.”
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“It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.”
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“Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of ‘true’ and ‘false’? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different ‘values’, to use the language of painters?”
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“Evolution is caused by the cycles of the luminaries and man cannot detach from their importance if only because he is wholly formed materially at least by the effects of these two bodies and their ceaseless gyrations- their Sacred Marriage.”
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“…if consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- ‘Is there life out there?’- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.”
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“…the universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.”
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“Instead of negating the conflicting aspects of a paradox, you advance your understanding when you can hold both sides of a dichotomy in your mind at the same time, reconciling rather than negating…one could embrace paradox as an operating, operative principle, rather than seeking to deny or dissolve or dilute it…Rather than seeking to resolve dualisms and institute some grand ‘theory of everything’, ‘the science of the imagination’ would embrace and explore paradox, going deeper into conundrums, relinquishing delusory attempts to achieve certainty. We may find that thought and language are creative aspects of being, tools for transforming reality. If the universe is actually a projection of subtler levels of the psyche- a loom of maya- then we may discover that the vibratory lattices of interpenetrating worlds elaborated by current physics are descriptions of the psyche itself, in its fully ensouled unfolding.”
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“The world is inseparable from the observing subject and is accordingly not objectifiable.”
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“A human society which is ordered and regulated on cosmic principles, demonstrably reflecting the order of nature and the heavens, is the only one which will attract and deserve general acceptance.”
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“Every place is the center of the world.”
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“The nerve centers of the Earth, corresponding on the human body to the acupuncture points of Chinese medicine, were guarded and sanctified by sacred buildings, themselves laid out as microcosms of the cosmic order, the universal body of God.”
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“A new world is only a new mind.”
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“…the worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer…”
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“We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves…”
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“To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one’s present practice is practice in realization, one’s initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.”
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“If the Greeks taught us how to reason and Christianity what to believe, it is Zen that teaches us to go beyond logic and not to tarry even when we come up against ‘the things which are not seen’. For the Zen point of view is to find an absolute point where no dualism in whatever form resides. Logic starts from the division of subject and object, and belief distinguishes between what is seen and what is not seen. The Western mode of thinking can never do away with this eternal dilemma, this or that, reason or faith, man and God, etc. With Zen all these are swept aside as something veiling our insight into the nature of life and reality. Zen leads us into a realm of Emptiness or Void where no conceptualism prevails.”
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“Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole…by the mingling of the most contrary principles.”
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“Matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration; we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively; there’s no such thing as death, life is just a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
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“We are constituted by the intersection of two flows- one direct, from the divine, and one indirect, from the divine via our environment. We can view ourselves as interference patterns because the inflow is a wave phenomenon, and we are where the waves meet.”
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“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.”
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“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.”
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“Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.”
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“Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outer reflection of your inner state of being.”
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“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connected.”
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“What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride…Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.”
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“A human being is part of a whole called by us ‘the universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated 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 this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
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“He who lives in harmony with himself, lives in harmony with the Universe.”
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“To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of the depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.”
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“The reflected world is the conquest of calm.”
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“Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take a different road, so long as we reach the same goal.”
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“I came to the conclusion long ago…that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I also hold by my own, I should others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, and that a Christian become a Hindu…But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim should be a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.”
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“Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.”
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“Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is the beginning, and for physicists he is at the end of all considerations…to the former He is the foundation, to the later, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”
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“The question is not ‘is there a God?’, but ‘is there anything else except God?’”
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“Today people live to work rather than work for a living. They have forgotten their true goal in life. Subsequently they have forgotten their dharma. There is no communication between hearts, there is no sharing. Having lost contact with other’s hearts, we become totally isolated. But in truth we are not isolated islands, we are links that form one chain.”
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“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”
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“Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say, ‘What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?’ If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.”
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“When is death not within ourselves?...Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.”
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“A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.”
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“From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.”
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“Logos is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”
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“It is wise to listen, not to me, but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.”
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“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
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“Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.”
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“How hard to realize that every camp of man and beast has this glorious starry firmament for a root! In such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make- leaves and moss like the marmot’s and birds, or tents or piled stone- we all dwell in a house of one room- the world with the firmament for its roof- and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.”
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“Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.”
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“Technology is blamed for a lot of this loneliness, since the loneliness is certainly associated with the newer technological devices…the real evil isn’t the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil…Quality destroys objectivity every time.”
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“What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later…They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.”
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“Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things…”
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“’Duty toward self’ is almost an exact translation of the Sanskrit word ‘dharma’, sometimes described as the ‘One’ of the Hindus. Can the ‘dharma’ of the Hindus and the ‘virtue’ of the ancient Greeks be identical? Lightning hits! Quality! Virtue! Dharma! This is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine ‘virtue’. But arête. Excellence. Dharma! Before the church of Reason. Before substance. Before form. Before mind and matter. Before dialectic itself. Quality had been absolute. Those first teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had chosen was that of rhetoric. Arete implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency…or rather, a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency that exists not in one department of life but in life itself.”
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"The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.”
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“What Phaedrus had been talking about as Quality, Socrates appears to have been describing as the soul, self-moving, source of all things. There is no contradiction. There never really can be between core terms of monistic philosophies. The One in India has got to be the same as the One in Greece. If it’s not, you’ve got two. The only disagreement among the monists concerns the attributes of the One, not the One Itself. Since the One is the source of all things and includes all things in it, it cannot be defined in terms of those things, since no matter what thing you use to define it, the thing will always describe something less than the One Itself. The One can only be described allegorically, through the use of analogy, of figures of imagination and speech- Everything is an analogy.”
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“What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.”
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“Good is a noun rather than an adjective.”
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“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”
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“To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.”
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“Every day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
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“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest mystery…He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”
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“I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine.”
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“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself- a point that seems to escape many people.”
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“From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.”
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“Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
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“Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.”
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“Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
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“There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith- and, indeed, our hope- the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid.”
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“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.”
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“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so arts and morals, is the discovery of reality.”
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“True charity only occurs when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.”
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“The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in Divinity.”
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“An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.”
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“There are spiritual patterns at work in the universe and these announce themselves with impressive regularity wherever human minds and hearts attempt to attune themselves to the cosmos in all its radiant dimensions.”
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“Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.”
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“The realization of Non-dual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder…There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.”
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“There is inter-subjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.”
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“The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True Freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True Freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are that One.”
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“The nature of the world is inherently obvious, if you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.”
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“Technology is only destructive in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.”
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“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is our self against ourselves.”
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“The ultimate metaphysical secret, if we dare to state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.”
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“In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.”
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“We are one species. We are starstuff harvesting starlight.”
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“’I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.”
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“Enlightenment for the wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.”
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“There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.”
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“The one ‘I Am’ at the heart of all creation, Thou art the light of life.”
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“Those wise ones who see that the consciousness within themselves is the same consciousness within all conscious beings, attain eternal peace.”
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“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.”
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“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
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“Look within, thou art Buddha.”
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“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.”
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“Everything the same; everything distinct.”
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“The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.”
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“Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden and such a pond.”
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“As is the human body, So is the cosmic body. As is the human mind, So is the common mind. As is the microcosm, So is the macrocosm. As is the atom, So is the universe.”
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“Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.”
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“The Buddha, the Godhead, resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a motorcycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain or in the petals of the flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha- which is to demean oneself.”
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“That which transcends both the self and the other, that’s what my teaching is about. Let me prove this to you: While everyone is turned this way to hear me, out back there may be sparrows chirping, human voices calling, or the sighing of the wind. But, without your consciously trying to hear them, each of those sounds comes to you clearly recognized and distinguished. It’s not you doing the hearing, so it’s not a matter of the self. But since no one else does your hearing for you, you couldn’t call it the other! When you listen this way with the Unborn Buddha-mind- you transcend whatever there is.”
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“Lift the stone and you will find me; cleave the wood and I am there.”
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The field of knowledge is the common property of all mankind.
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1820
Contribution #4923
“And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.”
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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
When men stop believing in God,
it isn't that they then believe in nothing:
they believe in everything.
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Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.
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The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence--for he has the perfected eye to see.
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Page 386
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Contribution #4647
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.
The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
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We affirm and promote respect for the interdependence of all existence of which we are a part.
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All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
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Don't create emnity with anyone as God is within everyone.
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AG 259
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Contribution #4470
Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long...."
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The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you,’ nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be the weaker are indispensable . . . for if one member suffers, all suffer.
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Contribution #4396
A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.
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Writing Down the Bones
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Contribution #4379
Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.
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Tomorrow's God
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Contribution #4354
Our walls of division do not rise all the way to heaven.
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Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.
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"...religion must be the cause of unity, harmony and agreement among mankind. If it be the cause of discourd and hostility, if it leads to separation and creates conflict, the absence of religion would be preferable in the world...
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.
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May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order that through you the oneness of humanity may establish its temple in the world of mankind, for you are the ones who are called to uplift the cause of unity among the nations of the earth.
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The Promulgation of Universal Peace (Wilmette: US Baha’i Publishing Trust, 1982 second edition
Page 214
Published by US Baha’i Publishing Trust
, Wilmette
, 1982
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/PUP/pup-76.html
Contribution #4276
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it.
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All men -- whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans -- have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Contribution #4138
The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border.
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I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
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New Seeds of Contemplation
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Contribution #3920
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
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The first thing you must do is forget that I’m Black. Second, you must never forget that I’m Black.
"We unite our humility with our Creator’s ability when we embrace Christ grace"
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Integrated Gospel Perceptions
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Contribution #3795
In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human beings could be captured, shipped to America, and sold. In Australia white settlers regarded Aborigines as a pest and hunted them down, much as kangaroos are hunted down today. Just as we have progressed beyond the blatantly racist ethic of the era of slavery and colonialism, so we must now progress beyond the speciesist ethic of the era of factory farming, of the use of animals as mere research tools, of whaling, seal hunting, kangaroo slaughter, and the destruction of wilderness. We must take the final step in expanding the circle of ethics.
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In this holiday season let us remember that kindness, charity and goodwill transcend belief, creed or religion. Happy Holidays"
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Approved sign posted on the Washington State Capitol grounds
Contribution #3706
So angels, demons, Gods who are Persons, and other "supernatural" entities - if they exist - are no more supernatural than a rock. Since the Ultimate Ground of Existence underlies their existence as It underlies the existence of the rock, one is no more above nature - i.e. super-natural - than the other. Therefore, the entire realm of existence - rocks, angels, and Gods who are Persons - is united, one. It is all natural. Or, if you prefer, it is all supernatural since the God which is not a Person underlies it all.
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Science Without Bounds: A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Mysticism
by Arthur D'Adamo
Page 247
Published by 1st
, 2004
http://www.AdamFord.com
Contribution #3703
Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone. The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.
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NY Times
"What Are Friends For? A Longer Life"
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Contribution #3695
There are no outsiders in God's love - we are all insiders with God!
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Robert V. Taylor
Contribution #3590
In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
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I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.
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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
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speech 1908
Contribution #3552
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
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If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
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The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom
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CauseWired
by Tom Watson
Page 99
Published by John Wiley
, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
, 2009
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Contribution #3507
Control no one. Control yourself --this is freedom.
There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure.
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Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity.
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Elixir Magazine
"Towards a Culture of Peace"
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Contribution #3475
In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.
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Thomas Merton Reader
Page "Day of a Stranger," p. 431
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Contribution #3463
When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.
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The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, “Does God exist?” It’s irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other’s explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses.
Part of reinventing the sacred is to heal...injuries that we hardly know we suffer. If we are members of a universe in which emergence and ceaseless creativity abound, if we take that creativity as a sense of God we can share, the resulting sense of the sacredness of all of life and the planet can help orient our lives beyond the consumerism and commodification the industrialized world now lives, heal the split between reason and faith, heal the split between science and the humanities, heal the want of spirituality, heal the wound derived from the false reductionist belief that we live in a world of fact without values, and help us jointly build a global ethic. These are what is at stake in finding a new scientific worldview that enables us to reinvent the sacred.
It seems to me that if “We the People” could raise our level of consciousness we would see what is responsible for unhappiness. We would not frantically “pursue happiness” much the way an addict “pursues” their drug. We would begin the difficult but magnificently gratifying steps of creating a healthier world so that happiness is a natural result, not an external target we must individually pursue.
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races. If, indeed, such men are separated from him by great differences in appearance or habits, experience unfortunately shews us how long it is, before we look at them as our fellow-creatures. Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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. . . Will matter then be destroyed or not? 22) The Savior said, All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots. 23) For the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone.
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Berlin Gnostic Codex
The Gospel Of Mary
Chapter Four (sayings 22-23)
Version or Translation Karen King
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Contribution #3209
77) Jesus said, "It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who am the All. From Me did the All come forth, and unto Me did the All extend. Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find Me there."
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Gnostic Gospels
Gospel of Thomas
Saying 77
Version or Translation Thomas O. Lambdin (Coptic version)
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Contribution #3208
We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise . . . It is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but must always participate in the swell of the ocean, so we can never experience life by ourselves, but must always share the experience of life that takes place all around us.
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We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.
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Inauguration Speech January 20, 2009
Contribution #2899
We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
Let us contemplate the one simple nature of that peaceful unity which joins all things to itself and to each other, preserving them in their distinctiveness and yet linking them together in a universal and unconfused alliance.
--Many Voices / One Truth / Spirit of the World
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
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I am concerned with the religious person--homo religiosus--the tendency of human beings to re-link, re-bind, re-connect, and reconcile themselves with each other and nature. This is precisely what the Latin re-ligare (from which the English word "religion" is derived) means. Whenever people are in the process of restoring life to wholeness, integration and unity, they are engaging in religious activity.
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The New Religious Image of Urban America: The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center, 2nd ed.
Page 14
Published by University Press of Colorado
, Niwot, CO
, 1997
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Contribution #2846
There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
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Gitanjali
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Contribution #2758
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static "snapshots." It is a set of general principles -- distilled over the course of the twentieth century, spanning fields as diverse as the physical and social sciences, engineering, and management.... During the last thirty years, these tools have been applied to understand a wide range of corporate, urban, regional, economic, political, ecological, and even psychological systems. And systems thinking is a sensibility -- for the subtle interconnectedness that gives living systems their unique character.
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
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The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
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An Ethical Philosophy of Life
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Contribution #2748
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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Enlightenment for a wave, is the moment the wave realizes that it is water.
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Living Buddha, Living Christ
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Contribution #2714
Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest.
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The Hidden Words
Arabic
#68
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Contribution #2698
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
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Bible
I Corinthians
3:8
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Contribution #2685
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.
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It’s relationships, not programs, that change children. A great program simply creates the environment for healthy relationships to form between adults and children. Young people thrive when adults care about them on a one-to-one level, and when they also have a sense of belonging to a caring community.
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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speech, Jan. 8, 2008
Contribution #2546
Across America, a constant cross-pollination is occurring, a not entirely orderly but generally peaceful collision among people and cultures. Identities are scrambling, and then cohering in new ways. Beliefs keep slipping through the noose of predictability. Facile expectations and simple explanations are being constantly upended. Spend time actually talking to Americans, and you discover that most evangelicals are more tolerant than the media would have us believe, most secularists more spiritual. Most rich people want the poor to succeed, and most of the poor are both more self-critical and hold higher aspirations than the popular culture allows.
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The Audacity of Hope
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Contribution #2543
We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and ... if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done for the people with whom we share this Earth.
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Contribution #2540
Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.
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speech, Aug. 7, 2006
Contribution #2537
The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life’s big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.
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Contribution #2531
I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago’s South Side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair. I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder -- alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware -- is inadequate to the task. I know that the hardening of lines, the embrace of fundamentalism and tribe, dooms us all.
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Dreams of My Father
Page Preface
Published in 2004
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Contribution #2529
This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.
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Speech on race relations in U.S., March 18, 2008
Contribution #2526
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... (of the American Civil War)
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)
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My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow otherworldly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather it is a call for a radical reorientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self. It is a call to turn toward the wider community of beings with whom we are connected, and for conduct which recognizes others' interests alongside our own.
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Ethics for the New Millenium
Page 13-14
Published by Riverhead Books
, New York
, 1999
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Contribution #2395
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.
If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.
We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living--Hope for the dead.
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
We know that we are the ones who are divided and we are the ones who must come back together to walk in the Sacred Way.
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Oneworld Book of Prayer
Page 152
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Contribution #2240
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
How much can we collectively be civilized – that is, mutually respectful and helpful, in the knowledge that this high goal can unite our wills toward a common good of colossal proportions? In other words, what is the ceiling of our possible civilization, which implies responsibility and solidarity, an elevation of life to love? Nobody knows the limit, so none should be set but the sky!
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Laurent Grenier
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Contribution #2165
You and the social circumstances that cradle your civilized life are one and indivisible, like a plant and its roots. No mystery, no revelation, just common knowledge. People helping people is a natural phenomenon that stems from a proverbial understanding: United we stand; divided we fall.”
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land--the boundaries of countries are not the limitations of his sympathies. Caring nothing for race, or color, he loves those who speak other languages and worship other gods. Between him and those who suffer, there is no impassable gulf. He salutes the world, and extends the hand of friendship to the human race. He does not bow before a provincial and patriotic god--one who protects his tribe or nation, and abhores the rest of mankind.
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What's God Got to Do with It?
by Editor: Tim Page
Page 27
Published by Steerforth Press
, Hanover, New Hampshire
, 2005
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Contribution #2072
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.
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They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them.
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Bhagavad Gita
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Contribution #1983
The World is my country; to do good is my religion.
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In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare.
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Contribution #1873
It is a natural aspect of the world’s design that life forms are interdependent. If compassion means empathic awareness of that natural interconnection, then compassion is a law of nature we cannot deny. If we want to live in harmony with the logic of our world, we can’t ignore the parts of us that are custodians of the earth and our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. We’re responsible for one another’s wellbeing whether we choose to act in accordance with that responsibility or not, because our wellbeing is inescapably collective.
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
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The divisions of mankind into two groups - men proper, and some other, lower, order of beings . . . permits men to look on many millions of their fellow men as not quite human, to slaughter them without a qualm of conscience, without the need to try to save them or warn them. Such conduct is usually ascribed to barbarians or savages - men in a pre-rational frame of mind, characteristic of peoples in the infancy of civilisation. This explanation will no longer do. It is evidently possible to attain to a high degree of scientific knowledge and skill, and indeed, of general culture, and yet destroy others without pity, in the name of a nation, a class, or history itself. If this is childhood, it is the dotage of a second childhood in its most repulsive form. How have men reached such a pass?
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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The great [in history] are not solitary; out of the night come the voices of those who have gone before, clear and courageous; and so through the ages they march, a mighty procession, proud, undaunted, unconquerable. To join in this glorious company, to swell the immortal paeon of those whom fate could not subdue - this may not be happiness; but what is happiness to those whose souls are filled with that celestial music? To them is given what is better than happiness: to know the fellowship of the great, to live in the inspiration of lofty thoughts, and to be illuminated in every perplexity by the fire of nobility and truth.
E pluribus unum - From many, one
And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty, and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few; as we have learned to our sorrow.
. . . The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeds to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weights their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded.
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Address at "I Am an American" day; Central Park, NY; May 21, 1944
Contribution #1668
For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others' necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience, and liberality. We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own--rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace . . .
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A Model of Christian Charity
Published in 1630
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Contribution #1664
To love country means to rise above "I am because I am." It is to recognize that "I am because we are."
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The True Patriot
Page 39
Published by True Patriot Network
, Seattle, USA
, 2007
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Contribution #1661
You can't be human alone.
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Through true honesty
deeply believe
that all sentient-beings are one.
That all beings have the same
true nature,
wisdom,
virtue.
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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1436
In separateness lies the world's
great suffering.
In unity lies the world's
true strength.
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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1415
In separateness lies the world's great suffering. In unity lies the world's true strength.
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Heart of a Buddha
by Amida Society
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1398
The deeper we look into nature the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret, and we are all united to all this life.
We
cannot afford to be separate. . . . We have to see that all of us are in the
same boat.
There is the sky, which is all men's together . . .
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The
wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole
world.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity;
and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language,
nationality, or religion.
Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
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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.
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There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One.
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Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a
resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly
civilized.
One who sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, hates none.
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Learn to look with an equal eye upon all things, seeing the one Self in all.
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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal?
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Through communication there is understanding.
With understanding there is unity.
In unity there is strength.
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Humanists acknowledge human interdependence, the need for mutual respect and the kinship of all humanity.
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“Namaste” translated, “The Light of God in Me recognizes and honors The Light of God in You and in that recognition is our Oneness.”
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We are each other's business; we are each other's harvest; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
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Union gives strength.
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Contribution #704
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness.
Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful
as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
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What does unity look like in a person?
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