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breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity.
We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh *
"Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even
Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute
truth."
-- Thich Nhat
Hanh |
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"To me, love, spirituality and life are all the same thing. To me they're all
about honoring the circle, and they're just different ways of defining the same
understanding. Our society as a whole, because we have placed our love for money
above our love for life, has devalued the sacred and devalued love."
-- Julia
Butterfly Hill |  |
It
all began on a day in 1960, sitting in the kitchen of my Greenwich home with a
friend, snacking on peanut butter sandwiches, talking about what a mess the world
was in, with the spectre of nuclear Armageddon not a remote possibility, when
as if out of nowhere, a light turned on in my mind and I excitedly saw an antidote
-- an ongoing forum where dialogue and understanding could be promoted by bringing
all the world's religions together under one roof.'
-- Juliet Hollister, founder
of the Temple of Understanding There
is so much work yet to be done. It is so clear to me that all we have to do is
awaken to the fact that we are all ONE, or as my friend Father Thomas Merton has
so rightly said, 'We are already ONE . . . what we have to become is what we already
are.' It seems so simple, doesn't it? Yet so much more work to do. So much more
work.'
-- Juliet Hollister, founder of the Temple of Understanding
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In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers — spiritual,
social, scientific — we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts
for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next
stage of our evolution.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard |
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"Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist
acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life.
And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
--
King Hussein of Jordan |
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a
right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
-- Thomas
Jefferson |
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"Tolerance
implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression
or persecution of others."
-- John
F. Kennedy |
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity
which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy |  |
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The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen
when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of
nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities,
for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the
global humanity.
-- Satish Kumar
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will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions and no peace
among the religions without dialogue.”
--Fr. Hans Kung
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…in place of the Old
Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible.
People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms
the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths
of the spiritual heritage of the human race.
-- Rabbi
Michael Lerner |  |
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[Our biggest opportunity at this moment in history is] perhaps a deeper connection
with all human beings. That kind of connection, made possible by our various technologies,
simply couldn’t exist before recent times. The connection guarantees nothing,
but it does offer an opportunity for expressions of a global spirit, or what I
call a “species consciousness” or “species self.” What that means is not that
one ceases to be an American, or a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Hindu.
One is any of those and at the same time, in one’s own sense of self, a human
being. This kind of species consciousness is expanding. Perhaps it represents
our greatest opportunity.
--
Robert Jay Lifton |
Spirituality
Day - December 31
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