It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
Daisaku Ikeda
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RICHARD POWERS We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO With love and patience, nothing is impossible. -Daisaku Ikeda. DAISAKU IKEDA The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do u... ERIC HOFFER When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and... ERIK PEVERNAGIE I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not. ANTHONY T. HINCKS The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... 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JULIA CAMERON Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment fre... VIOLA SPOLIN Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your ey... J.R.R. TOLKIEN In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH [...]we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Sometimes, we expect life to work a certain way and when it doesn’t we blame others or see it as a... SHANNON L. ALDER We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: ... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may. We are never able to know ourselves ful... MOHANDAS GANDHI We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom... CRISS JAMI It's funny how we can put so much faith in something we truly believe will always be there and when ... FAITH LONDON Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today... ANGIE KARAN When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed b... CHIP CONLEY We live in a world governed by illusions. We function within illusions and are illusionists ourselve... TARY C. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the reli... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON This is our true wealth -- the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn... PETER MCWILLIAMS We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. W... GARY ZUKAV In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify ... EMILE M. CIORAN However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of u... ERIC HOFFER We must also be able to free our minds from worries. This can easily be accomplished by allowing our... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... CHRISTINA ENGELA The meaning and worth of love, as a feeling, is that it really forces us, with all our being, to ack... VLADIMIR SERGEYEVICH SOLOVYOV We of the twentieth century should not allow ourselves to think vaguely of the Middle Ages as a beni... ROBERT HUNTINGTON FLETCHER Live in the moment. When you are focused on the moment, you can choose your actions consciously and ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We broke ground in 2000. We took our time and did most of the work ourselves. Our new building is re... JOE ROBERTS I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our i... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of
ourselves, of our relatives, of our ... ALEXANDER POPE Each time, we ask, "Who am I?", we answer the question differently. Our identity evolves, as it is t... ANITA B. SULSER We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ou... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything
that is real about us; ashamed of ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i... KATHERINE MANSFIELD As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth s... ABEL FERRARA It was a real tight game. We are still plagued by turnovers, and found ourselves in a rush during th... LINDA PRUITT Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fea... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought oursel... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we step outside ourselves and stop being merely subjective witnesses, we can recognize how the ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN
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