"By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are."
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Our ecosystem doesn't have borders, where ever we are, our actions have repercussions on the whole earth. The atmosphere of our planet is an indivisible whole, it is an asset we share. "
-Home, Film
International solidarity is "not an act of charity but an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objectives."
Samora Machel
"Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations."
Eduardo Galeano
"Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable."
Aurora Levins Morales
The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to all things.... The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole.... But forget about understanding and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness just realize it.
Lao Tzu
When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.
Lao Tzu
There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle after cycle, by force and bloodshed.
Mark Twain
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
My country is the world, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin
The Middle Ages is an unfortunate term. It was not invented until the age was
long past. The dwellers in the Middle Ages would not have recognized it. They
did not know that they were living in the middle; they thought, quite rightly,
that they were time’s latest achievement.
—Morris Bishop, 1968
Invite all to the way of your Lord
with wisdom and beautiful preaching.
And argue with them
in ways that are best and most gracious...
And if you punish,
let your punishment be proportional
to the wrong that has been done to you.
But if you show patience, that is indeed the best course.
Be patient, for your patience is from God.
And do not grieve over them,
or distress yourself because of their plots.
For God is with those who restrain themselves,
and those who do good.
Qur'an 16:125-128
Goodness and evil are not equal.
Repel evil with what is better.
Then that person with whom there was hatred,
may become your intimate friend!
And no one will be granted such goodness
except those who exercise patience and self-restraint,
none but people of the greatest good fortune.
Qur'an 41:34-35
I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one--as you are in me, Father and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe that you sent me...may they experience such perfect unity that the world will know...that you love them as much as you love me. (John 17:21,23)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.(Galatians 3:28)
I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. (Romans 1:14)
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. (Collossians 3:11)
Bahá'u'lláh said, “The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens,” and that, as foretold in all the sacred scriptures of the past, now is the time for humanity to live in unity.
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." - Thomas Jefferson
A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences
An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment
A loss of interest in judging other people
A loss of interest in judging self
A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others
A loss of interest in conflict
A loss of ability to worry
Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation
Contented feelings of connectedness with others & nature
Frequent attacks of smiling
An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen
An increased susceptibility to love extended by others and the uncontrollable urge to extend it
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