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The
intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We
have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
-- Albert Einstein
"Our principle is, and our
practices have always been, to seek peace, and ensue it, and to follow after righteousness
and the knowledge of God, seeking the good and welfare, and doing that which tends
to the peace of all...All bloody principles and practices we do utterly deny,
with all outward wars, and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any
end, or under any pretence whatsoever..." -- George
Fox
“My generation was
bold enough to question many things and to seek spirituality over religion. We
haven’t succeeded in overthrowing the old order yet, and maybe there are some
meanings to be found in my story about coming of age spiritually in the latter
half of the twentieth century.” -- Matthew
Fox
Compassion
is the essence of Jesus’ teaching, and indeed of the teaching of all great spiritual
figures from Mohammed to Isaiah, from Lao Tzu to Chief Seattle. Yet compassion
has been sentimentalized and severed from its relationship to justice-making and
celebration. Creation Spirituality links the struggle for justice with the yearning
for mysticism. -- Matthew
Fox
We
were made for something cosmic and will not fit peacefully into anything much
smaller. And when we try to build our lives around anything much smaller than
cosmos we become grotesque, and our institutions, be they religious or familial
or educational or governmental are asked to do too much. They become misshapen
and malformed and turn into instruments of cosmic and personal destruction.
-- Matthew Fox
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love:
where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair,
hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. --
Saint Francis of Assisi
Every time that religion
has identified itself or entangled itself with a particular political movement
or a particular government, religion has been harmed by that. I see religion as
a powerful positive healing force for this nation and the world. But that force
is blunted, weakened, compromised inestimably, if we turn religion into a tool
for advancing political strategy; if we make it a matter of how to win political
office; if we treat it as anything other than a sacred part of life from which
we ought to draw sustenance and values and strength for living courageously as
good citizens. -- C.
Welton Gaddy
"If only we
can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand
at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize,
at last, our most unique quality: humanity." ~ Jane
Goodall
"I
just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction
towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand
that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That
is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have
time." ~ Jane Goodall
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"If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal,
with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold
of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution
- and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity."
~ Jane
Goodall
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy,
generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it
is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected
people. -- M. Fethullah
Gülen
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Only
a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between
people, and within the individual only can come about when the material and spiritual
realms are reconciled. -- M.
Fethullah Gülen
Would
a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels?
No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself. -- Gurdjieff
