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ETHICS
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"What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary." Hillel (fl. 30 bce – 10 ad), from the Talmud
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition
(John Bartlett)
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"Human virtue is a participation in the divine power." Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II-II, q. 129, a. 1
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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"Primal Virtue is deep and far. It leads all things back toward the great oneness." Lao Tzu
Miraculous Living
(Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)
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"We have the innate need of harmony in the moral relations; this is our glory, and the stamp of the Divine upon our nature." Felix Adler (1851-1933), founder of the American Ethical Union
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"Pursuing virtue is an essential part of wisdom….Wisdom is more than just the acquisition of knowledge; rather, it is the ability to apply knowledge, through the considered merit of virtue and values."
366 Celt: A Year and A Day of Celtic Wisdom and Lore
(Carl McColman)
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"A good conscience confers on us the power of love." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Third Century of Various Texts'
The Philokalia, volume 2
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)
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"A wise test of right action is this: What is the effect of this action on people seven generations from today?"
A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity
(Matthew Fox)
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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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"The wisest people of all times have believed in the reality of spiritual values."
Healing: The Divine Art
(Manly P. Hall)
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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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"All the virtues grow through the practice of any one of them, and all the vices grow through the practice of any one of them likewise."
Ascent of Mount Carmel
(St. John of the Cross)
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"The forms of Virtue are: justice, courage, magnificence, magnanimity, liberality, gentleness, prudence, wisdom." Aristotle, (384-322 bce), Greek philosopher, 'Rhetoric', Bk. II
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"Somehow or other, things do eventually 'balance out' in the moral realm; each moral action produces, eventually, its quite specific moral reaction." Herbert Fingarette (b. 1921), American philosopher and psychologist', 'The Self in Transformation'
Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery
(Cranston/Head, editors)
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"Virtue – the readiness to regulate one's actions according to the relationships of universal love." Michail Kuzmin (1872-1936), Russian writer and translator
The Essential Gay Mystics
(Andrew Harvey, Editor)
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"At the moment in which man realizes that he is embedded within the total organism of the earth…at that moment there exists an objective basis for morality." Rudolf Steiner
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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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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"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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"A mathematical concept or a moral concept may lead as certainly toward a sense of beauty as may a strictly aesthetic one."
Creative Vision for Art and for Life
(Richard Guggenheimer)
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"May our lives be filled with the ongoing truth in which we are saturated with love, caring, and kindness. And may we serve the world from the level of awareness."
God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism
(Rabbi David A. Cooper)
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"The goal of a virtuous life is to become like God."
Catechism of the Catholic Church
(Various)
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"I see that when souls reach a certain clearness of perfection, they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness." Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Glorious Presence
(Ernest E. Wood)
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"Ethics is rooted in the dynamism of love."
The Unity of Reality
(Michael vonBruck)
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"The entire world should be pervaded with thoughts of loving-kindness."
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"Morality is a universal attribute of the human psyche."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"Visualize the Law of Right Human Relations as two clasped hands encircling a bright, glowing planet Earth. Contemplate and consider the implications of Right Human Relations. Make a plan as to how you may demonstrate Right Human Relations individually in the world."
Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self
(Alan Oken)
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