QUOTES
My
commitment is to global healing through personal transformation,
community-building, interfaith, intercultural, and interdisciplinary
understanding, strategic omni-local nonviolence education, and
compassionate activism.
“Our
unique spiritual and religious beliefs are among the most critical
raw materials of global society; without this rich diversity,
civilization as we know it would not exist. Our challenge is to
celebrate the miracle of multiplicity while practicing new demonstrations
of how our distinctive belief systems can complement one another
in sustaining the human experience of the sacred, rather than
perpetuating conflict and competition for one prevailing belief
system over and above another.”
“Religious
and spiritual belief systems shape worldviews that, in turn, determine
cultural norms. A powerful argument for genuine cultural evolution
is that prevailing human values, assumptions and behaviors are
moving us steadily toward a planet-wide values shift, with profound
implications for religion, spirituality and personal development.
Emerging are ways in which our wisdom traditions can interface
with the world’s critical issues, gradually allowing us to discard
outmoded interpretations of ‘religious isolationism’ and the destructive
patterns it has sometimes unleashed.”
