*
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
*
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
*
"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
*
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
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