Many / One
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"He [Black Elk] related that Buffalo Calf Woman said:…'You must always remember that the two-leggeds and all the other peoples who stand upon this earth are sacred and should be treated as such.'"
One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality
(Stephen Harrod Buhner)
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"Almost all the principles that are associated with religious thought are shared by every religion. The Golden Rule, Love Thy Neighbor, Honor Thy Father and Mother, Speak Truth, It Is More Blessed to Give Than to Receive – these principles and others are common to all religions and are very similarly expressed in each."
Oneness: Great Principles Shared By All Religions
(Jeffrey Moses)
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"Incline us, oh God!....to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves." Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself." Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), Dutch philosopher, 'Ethics'
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"Kindness…is an eternal absolute. It is the bond connecting all beings in the great web of interdependence in which we all participate and by which we are sustained."
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"We must willingly cooperate with the intentions of evolution and spiritual destiny. Our moral failure to develop spiritual cognition would render this future barren."
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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"Platonist and Neo-Platonist thinkers have traditionally asserted that humans are secretly rooted in Divinity and can realize that fact through the practice of virtue, the pursuit of beauty, and philosophic inquiry (or dialectic). 'God', wrote Plotinus, 'is outside of none.'"
The Future of the Body, Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature
(Michael Murphy)
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"Kindness will eventually transform the entire existence of an individual, having reverberations in the community and the world. Let us allow ourselves to be refashioned by the effective and beautiful quality of kindness."
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"There was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." Benjamin Franklin
One Thousand Inspirational Things
(Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)
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"External joys are shallow without the corresponding internal joys. The internal values of charity, love, wisdom, and truth – which issue from the divine – make the external delights eternally joyful."
Heaven, A History
(Colleen McDannell & Bernhard Lang)
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"We're in good hands and in gratitude for that fact it would be good if we bore one another's burdens."
The Way Things Are
(Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)
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"We are only really happy in the long run if we are committed to virtue, allowing our character to be schooled and formed by its precious wisdom. When we are truly in harmony with the Divine, others, nature, and ourselves, we are naturally virtuous and other will know it!"
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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“Give to others that which you would wish for yourself.”
Questions and Answers on Conversations With God
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." Cicero, 'Oratio Pro Cneao Plancio, XXXIII
Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations
(Frank S Mead, editor)
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"Much of our normal living is….permeated with intuitive insights. Deep within each of us is the conviction that love is better than hate; beauty better than ugliness; justice better than injustice."
The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite
(Arthur W. Osborn)
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"We have a responsibility to give back the cherished blessing of our lives with grace and gratitude. We must return blessing for blessing. Generativity and creativity have been built into the universe from the start."
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ
(Matthew Fox)
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"Always be kinder than the situation demands. Earth's greatest Teachers and Sages have taught this."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"Charity [love] safeguards the development of the universe and keeps it to the true path of its progress. Moral effort is the continuation in our souls of the same dynamic effort that gave us our bodies."
Writings in Time of War
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"I know myself now, and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience." William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"Ultimately, morality and ethics are not modes of conduct arising from constraint, from law or fear: the conduct arises from love."
The Hidden Jesus: A New Life
(Donald Spoto, Ph. D.)
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"With respect to other people, you must keep your conscience pure by not doing to them anything that you hate and that you do not want them to do to you." St. Symeon the New Theologian, 'The Three Methods of Prayer'
The Philokalia, volume 4
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)
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"Harmlessness is the expression of the life of the man who realizes himself to be everywhere."
A Treatise on White Magic
(Alice A. Bailey)
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