“Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.” WayLoveWaterCreaturesHighestSettlingClosestContending Book:Tao Te Ching Source: Tao Te Ching
“God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.” ThinkingMenWayAnimalCreaturesDareBeastSuspects Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III
“Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace.” WayDoeEndsValuesCreaturesCapacitySakeConsumerismOverconsumption Author:Thomas Merton