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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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.
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"Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world
of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic
Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way
of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles
of tolerance and dialogue.
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the
shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry
into the religious opinions of others.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
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"Tolerance
implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution
of others."
-- John
F. Kennedy
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant
man is diversity, the very diversity which our
heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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The force and the strength for peace will come
from people. And that will happen when people
start to realize that all the diversity and
differences we see of nationalities, of religions,
of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful
diversities, for they are only on the surface.
And deep down we share the same humanity, the
global humanity.
-- Satish
Kumar
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“There
will be no peace among the nations without peace among
the religions and no peace among the religions without
dialogue.”
--Fr. Hans Kung
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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
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[Our biggest opportunity at this moment in history
is] perhaps a deeper connection with all human
beings. That kind of connection, made possible
by our various technologies, simply couldn’t
exist before recent times. The connection guarantees
nothing, but it does offer an opportunity for
expressions of a global spirit, or what I call
a “species consciousness” or “species self.”
What that means is not that one ceases to be
an American, or a Christian, or a Muslim, or
a Jew, or a Hindu. One is any of those and at
the same time, in one’s own sense of self, a
human being. This kind of species consciousness
is expanding. Perhaps it represents our greatest
opportunity.
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Robert Jay Lifton
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