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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 His divine 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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speech, Dec. 1, 2006
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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speech, Jun. 4, 2005
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
http://www.truepat.org
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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