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A PEACEFUL WORLD
From suffering comes great compassion.
Great
compassion makes a peaceful heart.
A peaceful heart makes a peaceful person.
A peaceful person makes a peaceful
family.
A peaceful family makes a peaceful community.
A peaceful community makes a peaceful nation.
A
peaceful nation makes a peaceful world
~Maha Ghosananda, the Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia~
We can build a community out of seekers of
truth,
but not out of possessors of truth ...
I have to be a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Jain, a Parsee,
a
Sikh, a Muslim, and a Jew, as well as a Christian,
if I am to know the Truth and to find the point of
reconciliation
in all religion. - Father Bede Griffiths O.S.B.
God is not what you imagine or what you think you
understand.
If you understand you have failed.
St. Augustine
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know
what He is. -
St. Augustine
I do not mean that Christianity is over.
I mean that society is not going to be influenced by it
as it was before. We may be apt to despair at this, but history
shows that Christianity
undergoes a great crisis every 500 years or so, dying to be reborn. - Bishop Fulton Sheen
Every
type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, color,
social condition, language or religion,
is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to
God's intent. - Second Vatican Council
Love is not the product
of any particular religion. It is the rightful province of each and
every human heart ...
"Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root
in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle
of the Unity is to reject it all ...
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my Unity
with all the
people of the world without exception. - Leo Tolstoy
The human race is most like unto God when
it is most One, for the principle of Unity
dwells in Him alone. - Dante
Like a bee gathering honey from
different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of
different Scriptures and sees only the good in all religions ...
Personal
love is the prelude to universal love, and universal love augments the personal life with awesome benefit.
“If I
truly love one person, I love all persons, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to somebody else, 'I love you,'
I must be able to say, 'I love in you everybody, I love through you the world...”
— Erich Fromm
GOODWILL: When goodwill is expressed and
organized, recognized and used,
world problems, no matter what they may be, will in due time reach solution;
when
goodwill is a true and active factor in human affairs, we shall then pass
on to a fuller and richer understanding of the
nature of love and to an
expression of some still higher aspect of that divine love; when goodwill is
widespread among
men, we shall see the establishing of right human relations
and a new spirit of confidence, trust and understanding will
be found in
mankind.
You are never out of God's sight nor out of God's
hearing. Will you remember God's love? Will you remember it in the town and in the dale? Will you remember it walking through
a forest and riding on the High Seas? Will you remember God? Will you let your heart beat for God, and God's heart beat for
you? Will you be God's accompaniment? Will you sing God's song so God may hear it and hear what God sings?
Will you sing
it for all to hear?
Be Truthful be Honest to ALL
{Your only as
sick as your secrets}
& only as sick as our lack of forgiveness.
" For you will find Love & Happiness
nowhere,
unless you bring some with you "
May the stars carry your sadness away
May the flowers fill
your heart with beauty
May hope forever wipe away your tears
And, above all, may silence make you Strong ...
Hold on to what is good even if it is a
handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe even if it is a tree which stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must
do even if it is a long way from here.
Hold on to life even when it is easier letting go.
Hold on to my hand even
when I have gone away from you.
Pueblo Blessing
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Thank you for your visit
John
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