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"Your neighbor is your other self dwelling behind a wall. In understanding, all walls shall fall down." Kahlil Gibran
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles
(Caroline Myss)
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"A single sentence, uttered from your pulpits, lecterns, and rostrums, by your national congresses and your world summit leaders, could change everything. 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.' This humble utterance could begin to heal the divisions between your religions, close the gap between your political parties, curb the conflicts between your nations. With one word you could end them. 'Namaste.' God in me honors God in you. How simple. How beautiful. How wondrous, indeed."
Communion with God
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"Who is our neighbor? The Samaritan? The outcast? The enemy? Yes, yes, of course. But it is also the whale, the dolphin and the rainforest. Our neighbor is the entire community of life, the entire universe. We must love it all as our self." Brian Patrick, author
Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
(Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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"Begin heart and soul to spread the teaching of universal brotherhood…universal brotherhood rests upon the common soul." H. B. Blavatsky, interview in London, 1887
Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery
(Cranston/Head, editors)
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"In order to grow and survive we need to uncover some common ground to talk about what we're experiencing from our unique viewpoints. We need to develop a means of communicating with one another that is sensitive to - and even tolerant of - contrasting points of view. Our talking must 'take into account', rather than talk in defense.
Breaking the Mind Barrier
(Todd Siler)
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"A worldwide communications network now links the people of the earth in a way unimaginable one hundred years ago. And there is clear evidence of an emerging segment of society which holds a holistic vision of human nature and ways of living."
Visions and Prophecies for a New Age
(Mark A. Thurston, Ph.D.)
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"The forces of the world are always interdependent, and by acting together produce something new and essential."
Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change
(Richard Wilhelm)
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"All of us living beings belong together, in as much as we are all in reality sides or aspects of one single being, which may perhaps in western terminology be called God while in the Upanishads its name is Brahman." Erwin Schrodinger, 'My View of the World'
Myths To Live By
(Joseph Campbell)
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"We can only grow as people by living in relationships, by in-depth communication, and by orientating ourselves towards justice and charity. Through this attitude we learn to live in 'correct proportions'." Catharina J. M. Halkes, Dutch Feminist theologian
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"We can no longer hold our loves at home and project our aggressions elsewhere; for on this spaceship Earth there is no 'elsewhere' any more. And no mythology that continues to speak or to teach of 'elsewheres' and 'outsiders' meets the requirement of this hour."
Myths To Live By
(Joseph Campbell)
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"A breeze is blowing through the human masses; one that draws us all by a sort of living affinity towards the splendid realization of some foreseen unity. Disputed, suspect and often scorned, unitary aspirations in politics, in thought, in mysticism, arise everywhere around us; and because their subject is not what is material and plural but what is spiritual and common to all in each one of us, no force of routine or egoism seems capable of arresting them; irresistibly they infiltrate and gradually dissolve old forms and false barriers."
The Vision of the Past
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"The soul that empathetically identifies with both the pain and the joy of others begins to see that in the inner world we are not separate from each other. Peace and joy, no less than pain and sorrow, are shared, collective experiences. In the inner world it becomes clear that we can choose what we want to cultivate and that help is available."
Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions
(Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)
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"When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, we can see and listen deeply, and the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy."
Living Buddha, Living Christ
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
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"Our intrinsic Unity is experienced once again when we re-member."
Communion with God
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"Look upon the world as maturing – not only in each individual or in each nation, but in the whole human race – a specific power of knowing and loving whose transfigured term is charity, but whose roots and elemental sap lie in the discovery and the love of everything that is true and beautiful in creation."
The Divine Milieu
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"In and through community lies the salvation of the world." M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"Everyone is one's neighbour."
Works of Love
(Soren Kierkegaard)
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"Now we are moving back toward community – because we need it to happen." Gay Luce
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"God does not give us graces or talents or virtues for ourselves alone. We are members one of another and everything that is given to one member is given for the whole body."
Seeds of Contemplatiion
(Thomas Merton)
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"We have a magnificent metaphor for the presence of love in our midst. Our fabulous technological ingenuity has created a world that is now linked by a pulsating electronic web, a global nervous system which demonstrates in a very concrete way that as a body of humanity we are all beautifully linked together, that we are all incredibly connected…… the real challenge now is for us to see that it is love that is truly the web of our connection, that we are all of a piece as human beings and spirits, that we share the same joys and woes, that we partake of the same eternal spiritual destiny." Daphne Rose Kingma, 'A Profound Infusion of Love'
The Fabric of the Future
(M. J. Ryan, editor)
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"Human bodies are of course separate, but on a deeper level we are joined like icebergs in a common floe."
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"The world needs us to start extending wholeness, because that is what we are."
A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind
(Tara Singh)
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"What you perceive in others you are strengthening in yourself."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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"The right to live with mutual consideration and respect needs to be the newly-forged path of an aware society."
Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era
(Meredith L. Young)
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"Can you look beyond the façade of another and empower that person's beauty? Can you see beyond the affects and defects in others and accept them as part of the beauty of yourself, the wonders of nature, and the miracle of love?"
Miraculous Living
(Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)
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