*
"We have to sit down, have a meal together,
pray together and then actually talk together.
Then we realize that, yes, although we have
some differences they are not impassable differences."
-- Pauline
Tangiora
*
If the ecological crisis, for example, is to
be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice
and thus bring real peace to the planet—and
with it the possibility of improving lives on
every level, not just economically, socially,
and politically, but spiritually, psychologically,
and intellectually—then, just on a practical
level, we need to have all of the religions
working together."
~ Brother Wayne
Teasdale
"So
many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands
of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years,
have been related to differences in Truth claims.
If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think
there's some chance that we could retire the whole
institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful
evolution of humanity.
~ Brother Wayne Teasdale
*
We
are not human beings having a spiritual experience;
we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
-- Pierre Teilhard
De Chardin
*
Love
is a fruit in season at all times and within
the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it
and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this
love through meditation, prayer, sacrifice,
and an intense inner life.
~ Mother Teresa
*
"I honor the path each person is on. I believe
that all of our prayer paths lead to the Great
Mystery, or Spirit, or God."
-- Mary Thunder
*
Certainly
the vision of the spiritual nature of man and
the universe brings the conviction that the
human potential is unlimited and that we stand
at the threshold over which a quantum leap in
consciousness is possible.
~ George Trevelyan
"My
humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only
be human together."
-- Desmond Tutu
*
We can find common ground only by moving to
higher ground.
-- Jim Wallis
*
We
believe in taking down the barriers, but we
also believe in the most energetic reconciliation
among peoples by getting them to know each other,
talk each other's languages, understand each
other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each
other physically, philosophically, and spiritually.
It is much harder to kill your near neighbor
than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens
at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have
to create a world in which there are no unknown,
hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles.
-- Betty
Williams (The Peace People)
In
the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring
to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we
do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than
cruelty.
-- Rowan D. Williams
The
spiritual path -- is simply the journey of living
our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path;
most people just don't know it.
-- Marianne
Williamson
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear
and prejudices and the acceptance of love back
in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and our purpose on earth.
-- Marianne
Williamson
*
There is only one river. There is only one sea.
And it flows through you, and it flows through
me.
There is only one people. We are one and the
same.
We are all one spirit. We are all one name.
-- Peter Yarrow
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