Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.
— Hindu proverb
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If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light
— Pope John XXIII
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
— Jalad al-Din Rumi
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What shall I say? Everything that I could say would fade into insignificance compared with what my heart feels, and your hearts feel, at this moment.
— Pope John Paul II
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A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved but when he becomes a master.
— Jewish Proverb
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An hour’s contemplation is better than a year’s adoration
— Muhammad, prophet of Islam
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.
— Jewish Proverb
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Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— St. Augustine, Catholic philosopher
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There is just one great spiritual teacher, and that is the Divine Spirit in your heart. What any spiritual teacher on the outside can do, at best, is to always lead you back to that teacher in your heart.
— Brother David Steindl-Rast, Cathlic Benedectine monk
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If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
— Mother Teresa, Catholic nun
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
— Rumi, great Persian Muslim poet
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The taking of one innocent life is like taking all of Mankind… and the saving of one life is like saving all of Mankind.
— Koran (5:33), holy book of Islam
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It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
— Confucius, founder of Confucianism and an absolutely brilliant Chinese thinker
