“Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.” HumansHumanityHuman BeingsRaceClassLonelinessWallBuiltNeighborIsolationNationalismCastes Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind
“The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.” HumansTwoFactsActionSidesJusticeDivineWorshipTraditionNeighborWitnessProphetBoresBiblicalLoving GodTwo SidesGreat Biblical Author:John Shelby Spong
“God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.” HumansHeartMightCommonSecretShareHuman NatureSpeechNeighborGrantedFacultyTreasuryRecess Author:Saint Basil
“A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.” IfsKnowsHumansFallHuman BeingsAcceptingGraceEqualNeighborSeverity Author:Stefan Zweig