"Now we are being called upon to expand our definition of love, to understand it and embody it in all of its richness and complexity." Daphne Rose Kingma, 'A Profound Infusion of Love'
The Fabric of the Future - M. J. Ryan, editor
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"We are embedded in communities, circles within circles of communities, both small and large, focused and abstract. Holding up the ideal of unity, we strive to break down the walls which separate us from others – not only other nations and peoples, but other species and the natural world."
Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
(Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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"When we recognize our roots in the human family, we no longer feel a need to stand in judgment of others. Judgment only condemns and separates people. It places one person or group against another, whereas compassion and empathy can bring people together and promote clearer communication. 'I care about you and I want to support you' is the clear message."
Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles
(John Marks Templeton)
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"The most basic of all works of love [is] the work of human communication, of caring and nurturance, of tending the personal bonds of community." Beverly Wildung Harrison, American social ethicist
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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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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"As Aristotle says, 'man is a civic animal', wherefore he is required not only to be useful to himself but also to others." Dante
Tarot Revelations
(Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts)
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"There are millions of interlocking and interdependent communication patterns among all the physical forms of the Earth, and with training human beings can perceive and understand those patterns of communication. It is part of our species' purpose to do so."
One Spirit, Many Peoples, A Manifesto for Earth Spirituality
(Stephen Harrod Buhner)
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"There are no others 'out there.'….There is only the Person in the unity of perfect love which is God."
Merton's Palace of Nowhere
(James Finley)
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"This focus of synthesis and unity, this resolution of dualities into greater, more inclusively loving wholes, is fundamental to the New Age."
Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self
(Alan Oken)
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"The coming together of the planet as one community cannot be stopped."
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"As Cicero conceived it, every society should resemble a symphonic concert, in which the different notes of the instruments and voices blend into a final harmony." Editors
The City of God
(St. Augustine)
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"I am called to seek wholeness inside of myself. Healing begins here, in myself. Wholeness and unity begin inside of myself. If I am growing toward wholeness, then I'll be an agent of wholeness. If our community is an agent of wholeness, then it will be a source of life for the world around it." Jean Vanier, 'From Brokenness to Community'
Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
(Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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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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"Earth's multitude of human and sub-human creatures, each of them like a single cell, collectively constitute the body of one multicellular organism, mentally illuminated by the One Cosmic Mind. We are, as St. Paul perceived, all members of One Body; or, as the Mahayana [Buddhism] likewise teaches, other and self are identical."
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
(W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)
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"Realisation of the unity of life solves problems of human relations, personal, national and international. All are one, and realisation of this fact by a sufficient number of people will bring world peace."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"Nature has been forming synergistic systems for billions of years. Holism, the tendency to form whole systems out of separate parts, is the nature of reality." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Discovery of a New Ordering of the Future'
New Thoughts for a New Millennium
(Michael A. Maday, editor)
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"In the mad rush for security and peace, there is too often an escape from the person to an outer world of authority, where responsibility may be laid at the door of someone else. Yet there can be no peace that does not come from the depths of our own being, no security that does not arise from the love within, and no knowledge that does not proclaim the unity of the person in the greater community of creation."
Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights
(Martin Israel)
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"As the Sufi sage Hazrat Inayat Khan said, 'The essence of spirituality and mysticism is readiness to serve the person next to us.'"
Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self
(Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)
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"There is nothing and no one outside us, so much as there are mirrors everywhere. Every person is a part of us, and we are a part of every person."
Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
(Marianne Williamson)
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"When people appreciate each other as brothers and sisters and smile, the Holy Spirit is there."
Living Buddha, Living Christ
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
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"We are thoroughly blended into the universal energy of essential relationship – interconnectedness."
Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self
(Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)
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"Everyone is one's neighbour."
Works of Love
(Soren Kierkegaard)
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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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"Part of the information that we need now is an awareness of the indivisibility of our relationship with each other – peoples of all races, nationalities, ethnicities, and classes – and with the Earth and all her creatures." China Galland, 'The Black Madonna and the Limits of Light: Looking Underneath Christianity, A Teaching for Our Time'
The Fabric of the Future
(M. J. Ryan, editor)
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"The harmonious cooperation of all beings arose, not from the orders of a superior authority external to themselves, but from the fact that they were all parts in a hierarchy of wholes forming a cosmic pattern, and what they obeyed were the internal dictates of their own natures. Modern science and the philosophy of organism, with its integrative levels, have come back to this wisdom, fortified by new understanding of cosmic, biological, and social evolution." Joseph Needham, 'Science and Civilization in China'
Spectrum of Consciousness
(Ken Wilber)
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Living Quotations for Christians
(Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)
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