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Seek
peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
--
Thich Nhat Hanh Every
breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity.
We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh "Do
not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist
ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"To me, love, spirituality
and life are all the same thing. To me they're all about honoring the circle,
and they're just different ways of defining the same understanding. Our society
as a whole, because we have placed our love for money above our love for life,
has devalued the sacred and devalued love."
-- Julia
Butterfly Hill |  |
It
all began on a day in 1960, sitting in the kitchen of my Greenwich home with a
friend, snacking on peanut butter sandwiches, talking about what a mess the world
was in, with the spectre of nuclear Armageddon not a remote possibility, when
as if out of nowhere, a light turned on in my mind and I excitedly saw an antidote
-- an ongoing forum where dialogue and understanding could be promoted by bringing
all the world's religions together under one roof.'
-- Juliet Hollister, founder
of the Temple of Understanding There
is so much work yet to be done. It is so clear to me that all we have to do is
awaken to the fact that we are all ONE, or as my friend Father Thomas Merton has
so rightly said, 'We are already ONE . . . what we have to become is what we already
are.' It seems so simple, doesn't it? Yet so much more work to do. So much more
work.'
-- Juliet Hollister, founder of the Temple of Understanding We
can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
-- Ernest Holmes
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In the next 30 years
we can destroy our world. With the very same powers — spiritual, social, scientific
— we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary
awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our
evolution.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard |
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I feel that faith and
feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to
the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both
have a vision of universal human equity.
-- Helen
LaKelly Hunt |  |
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I firmly believe that all
human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts
of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes
and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.”
-- Jean
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"Peace
is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of
it."
-- Aldous Huxley
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The true spiritual
life begins within the individual when he perceives the importance of it, and
begins to realize what spiritual values are. Therefore, in order for man to emerge
from his present state of chaos, he must experience a revolution of a new type,
one that will have neither a political nor an economic character. We may call
it the individual self-revolution. There is nothing that can better transform
man from his materialistic conception of existence to a spiritual awareness of
life than such individual revolution from within...
-- Frederick
Kettner |
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Reconnect
with the spiritual force that animates the best in you. Then let your every action
flow from your strength and compassion.
-- Fran
Korten |  |
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Active
citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious
application of spiritual principles.
-- Dennis Kucinich
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There
is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing
materialistic paths—globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this
‘big is better’ idea—on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated
to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability,
more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money
and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path.
-- Satish Kumar |
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…in
place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and
Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social
movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed,
and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.
-- Rabbi
Michael Lerner |  |
We
need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed,
as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel
it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations
and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their
personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these
millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go
hand in hand.
-- Rabbi
Michael Lerner "Ultimately,
one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports
rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations.
Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through
which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others
around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us."
-- Rabbi
Michael Lerner
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We
must comprehend in each of our hearts and minds the two ways we human beings are
free to follow, as we choose: the good way, the spiritual way - or the un-natural
way, the material way. It’s our personal choice, our personal decision - each
of ours and all of ours.
-- Chief
Arvol Lookinghorse |  |
Spirituality
Day - December 31
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