INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE CATEGORIES:

FROM THE GREAT TEACHERS	FOR COMFORT	FOR STRENGTH
THAT PROVOKE THOUGHT	THAT CONNECT	THAT YOU REQUESTED

 

Jesus Christ	Mohammad	Joan of Arc
Buddha	Martin Luther King JR	Dalai Lama

 

Jesus Christ Quotes:

~ “Split a piece of wood and I am there.”

~ “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.”

~ “Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.”

~ “Seek and you will find.”

~ “Knock and it will be opened.”

~ “Love one another!”

~ “I was thirsty and you gave me drink.”

~ “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.”

~ “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”

~ “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.”

~ “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

~ “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”

~ “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

~ “Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time”

~ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

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Muhammed Quotes:

~ “Every good act is charity.”

~ “A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”

~ “Patience is the key to contentment.”

~ “Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.”

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Joan of Arc Quotes:

~ “I am not afraid…I was born to do this.”

~ “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”

~ “Act, and God will act.”

~ “I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.”

~ “Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.”

~ “Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!”

~ “I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.”

~ “Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.”

~ “Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.”

~ “You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden, to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further.”

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-Buddha Quotes:

~ “We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.”

~ “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

~ “Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you.”

~ “Speak or act with an pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.”

~ “In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.”

~ “Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.”

~ “There is no fire like passion
No crime like hatred,
No sorrow like separation,
No sickness like hunger,
And no joy like the joy of freedom.”

~ “You too shall pass away.
Knowing this, how can you quarrel?”

~ “It is better to conquer yourself
Than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
Not by angels or by demons,
Heaven or hell.”

~ “You are the source
Of all purity and impurity.
No one purifies another.”

~ “It is better to do nothing
Than to do what is wrong.
For whatever you do, you do to yourself.”

~ “To share happiness.
And to have done something good
Before leaving this life is sweet”

~ “Master your words.
Master your thoughts.
Never allow your body to do harm.
Follow these three roads with purity
And you will find yourself upon the one way,
The way of wisdom.”

~ “The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay
Does not travel far.
But the fragrance of virtue
Rises to the heavens.”

~ “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

~ “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”

~ “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”

~ “The mind is everything; what you think you become.”

~ “Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.”

~ “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

~ “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”

~ “It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”

~ “Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”

~ “On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.”

~ “The greatest prayer is patience.”

~ “With gentleness overcome anger.
With generosity overcome meanness.
With truth overcome deceit.”

~ “Never speak harsh words
For they will rebound upon you.
Angry words hurt
And the hurt rebounds.
Like a broken gong.”

~ “Let go of anger.
Let go of pride.
When you are bound by nothing
You go beyond sorrow.”

~ “The wise have mastered
Body, word and mind.
They are the true masters.”

~ “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

~ “Think: Happy, at rest,
may all beings be happy at heart.
Whatever beings there may be,
weak or strong, without exception,
long, large,
middling, short,
subtle, blatant,
seen & unseen,
near & far,
born & seeking birth:
May all beings be happy at heart.”

~ “Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.”

~ “As a mother would risk her life
to protect her child, her only child,
even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
with regard to all beings.
With good will for the entire cosmos,
cultivate a limitless heart:
Above, below, & all around,
unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
Whether standing, walking,
sitting, or lying down,
as long as one is alert,
one should be resolved on this mindfulness.
This is called a sublime abiding
here & now.”

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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes:

~ “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

~ “A lie cannot live.”

~ “A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.”

~ “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”

~ “A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

~ “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

~ “A right delayed is a right denied.”

~ “A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.”

~ “A riot is the language of the unheard.”

~ “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

~ “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”

~ “Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”

~ “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

~ “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

~ “At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”

~ “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.”

~ “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

~ “Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”

~ “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

~ “Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”

~ “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

~ “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

~ “Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”

~ “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

~ “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

~ “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

~ “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”

~ “I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”

~ “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

~ “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

~ “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves, and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

~ “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

~ “I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.”

~ “I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land.”

~ “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

~ “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

~ “I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.”

~ “I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”

~ “I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.”

~ “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”

~ “If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”

~ “If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”

~ “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

~ “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

~ “It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.”

~ “It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”

~ “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”

~ “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”

~ “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

~ “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

~ “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

~ “Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”

~ “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

~ “Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”

~ “Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.”

~ “Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”

~ “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

~ “One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”

~ “One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”

~ “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

~ “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

~ “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

~ “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”

~ “Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.”

~ “Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.”
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

~ “Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.”

~ “Seeing is not always believing.”

~ “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

~ “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

~ “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

~ “The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”

~ “The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’”

~ “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

~ “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”

~ “The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”

~ “The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.”

~ “The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

~ “The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.”

~ “The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.”

~ “The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

~ “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”

~ “The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

~ “The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”

~ “The time is always right to do what is right.”

~ “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

~ “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

~ “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

~ “There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”

~ “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”

~ “War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”

~ “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

~ “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”

~ “We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

~ “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”

~ “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

~ “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”

~ “We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.”

~ “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

~ “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

~ “We must use time creatively.”

~ “We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.”
~ “We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.”

~ “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

~ “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

~ “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

~ “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

~ “When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”

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Dalai Lama Quotes:

~ “Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.”

~ “In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.”

~ “Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.”

~ “When receiving the teachings, it is important to have the correct attitude. It is not practicing the Dharma properly to listen with the intention of gaining material advantage or reputation. Neither should our goal be higher rebirth in the next life, nor should we be wishing only for our own liberation from samsara. These are all attitudes we should reject. Instead, let us listen to the teachings with the determined wish to attain the state of omniscience for the sake of all beings.”

~ “Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is ‘shila’, or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.”

~ “It is our custom to say that someone is “lucky” or “unlucky” if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is however, too simplistic to think in terms of random “luck.” Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation. Should something unfortunate happen, we immediately think, “Oh, how unlucky!” And yet this is not sufficient to explain what happened- there must be a cause. We seem to cal “luck” that factor which overrides external conditions to bring about a positive situation. But that too is a cause; it is an inner cause, which we call “merit.”

~ “With a selfish attitude, oneself is important, and others are not so important. According to Shantideva’s advice, a technique to help in turning this attitude around is to imagine- in front of yourself as an unbiased observer- your own selfish self on one side and a limited number of other beings on the other side- ten, fifty, or a hundred. On one side is your proud, selfish self, and on the other side is a group of poor, needy people. You are, in effect, in the middle- as an unbiased, third person. Now, judge. Is this one, single, selfish person more important? Or is the group of people more important? Think. Will you join this side or that side? Naturally, if you are a real human being, your heart will go with the group because the number is greater and they are more needy. The other one is just a single person, proud and stupid. Your feeling naturally goes with the group. By thinking in this way, selfishness gradually decreases,
and respect of others grows. This is is the way to practice.”

~ “If there is love, there is hope to have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost, if you continue to see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education you have, no matter how much material progress is made, only suffering and confusion will ensue.”

~ “Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.”

~ “Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.”

~ “No religion basically believes that material progress alone is sufficient for humankind. All religions believe in forces beyond material progress. All agree that it is very important and worthwhile to make a strong effort to serve human society.

~ “To do this, it is important that we understand each other. In the past, due to narrow-mindedness and other factors, there has sometimes been discord between religious groups. This should not happen again. If we look deeply into the value of a religion in the context of the worldwide situation, we can easily transcend these unfortunate happenings. For, there are many areas of common ground on which we can have harmony. Let us just be side by side- helping, respecting, and understanding each other – in common effort to serve humankind. The aim of human society must be the compassionate betterment of human beings.”– His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”

~ “Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings,
society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be
endangered.”

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“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
- Carl Jung

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle.
I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa

Every evening I turn my worries over to God.
He’s going to be up all night anyway.
- Mary C. Crowley

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
-Author Unknown

In our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our own despair against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
- Aeschylos (As quoted by Bobby Kennedy announcing Martin Luther King’s death on April 4, 1968)

“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
- Lao-tzu

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
- Marcus Aurelius

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“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” -Buddha

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”
Tao Te Ching

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
-August Wilson

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”
-Alex Karras

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”

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“Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?”
- Jesus

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world. ”
- John Lennon

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
-Mohandas Gandhi

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“I believe in the essential unity of all people and for that matter of all lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.”
- Gandhi

The Earth is wise and whispers to us in a language of feelings. A sacred place is one where the Earth’s voice can be heard more clearly. Let’s go to these places and listen.
- Frederic Lehrman

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein

“Millions of spiritual creatures,
walk the earth unseen,
both when we sleep and when awake.”
- John Milton

“Spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants”
- M.K. Gandhi

“The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.”
- Muhammad Yunus

“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
- Rabindranath Tagore

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