"Stop viewing yourself as distant and apart on the basis of your geography, or your isolation from those who are struggling elsewhere. When you are aware of someone suffering on another shore, say a silent prayer for that person, and see if can experience in your heart your oneness with that person."
"See God in everyone and everything and behave each day as if the God in all things truly mattered. Try to suspend your judgements of those who are less ambitious, less peaceful, and less loving, and instead know that hatred and judgement are the problems in the first place.
When you judge the haters, and hate the judgers, you are part of the cancer rather than the treatment."
"Use fewer labels that distinguish you from "them". You are not an American, Californian, (Carolinian -my add.), Italian, Jew, middle-aged, stocky, female, athletic, or any other label.
You are a citizen of the world, and when you stop the labeling process, you will begin to see God in every garden, every forest, every home, every creature, and every person, and inner peace will be your reward."
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of
the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away
by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory
were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own
were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am
involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for
whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne (1572-1631 - English)
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