The Golden Rule
In the beginning were the Instructions. They are to love and respect all living creatures and Mother Earth. -North American Indian
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. -Christianity
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. -Buddhism
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others that which if done to thee would cause pain. -Hinduism
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary. -Judaism
That nature alone is good which shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self. -Zoroastrian
No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. -Islam
Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself. -Baha'i Faith
Unity
On me fix thy mind; ...harmonized thus in the self, thou shalt come unto me. -Hinduism
Blessed is the devotion of those who dwell in unity. -Buddhism
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! -Judaism
May the God who gives you endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity... -Christianity
Mankind was but one people; and God sent prophets to announce glad tidings and to warn. -Islam
The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. -Baha'i Faith
Love
Never in this world is hate appeased by hatred; it is only appeased by love. This is an eternal law. -Buddhism
Thou shalt not avenge...but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. -Judaism
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. -Christianity
Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, friendliness and fellowship. -Baha'i Faith
"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist."-Rene-Francois-Ghislain Magritte
"The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind." -Emily Dickinson
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."-Edgar Allen Poe
“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen, songwriter
"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is."-Will Rogers
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"-Henry David Thoreau
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The source of all crafts, sciences, and arts is the power of reflection." -Bahá'u'lláh
"So long as the thoughts of an individual are scattered he will achieve no results, but if his thinking be concentrated on a single point wonderful will be the fruits thereof." -Abdu'l-Baha
In the beginning was the beat
And the beat was the rhythm of God
And the rhythm of God became the harmony of humanity
And where there is harmony there is peace.
-Rev. Clarence Glover, Essence magazine, 1987
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -author Marianne Williamson, quoted by Nelson Mandela during his 1994 Inaugural speech
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them." -Henry David Thoreau
"To be an artist is to believe in life."- Henry S. Moore
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."-Henry David Thoreau
“True art consists of spreading wide the intervals so that imagination may fill the space between the trees.” -Walter Anderson, artist
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” -William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)
“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.” -Carlos Castenada, mystic and author (1925-1998)
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