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Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

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—	Dalai Lama

Bertrand Russell’s Message to the Future (by thruthem)

All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

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—	Dalai Lama

Melek Taus / The Peacock Angel - Samuel Adams On Religion, Tolerance, & Humanity

“In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practised, and, both by precept and example, inculcated on mankind.”
- Samuel Adams

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Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

Over the past decade, Gentries said he has taken pains to avoid personal interactions or media that might have the potential to compromise his point of view. He told reporters that the closest he had come to confronting a contrary standpoint was tuning in to the first few seconds of an interview with a moderate Muslim cleric before hastily turning off the television.

“I almost gave in and listened to that guy defend Islam with words I didn’t want to hear,” Gentries said. “But then I remembered how much easier it is to live in a world of black-and-white in which I can assign the label of ‘other’ to someone and use him as a vessel for all my fears and insecurities.”

Added Gentries, “That really put things back into perspective.

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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Undercover Man

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“We need to actively cultivate the antidotes to hatred: patience and tolerance.”
- Dalai Lama

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Universal Love: Earth Sun Galaxy Universe Cosmos

Democratic Socialism and Transcendental Pragmatism

Peace in Opposition
Nonviolence in Resolution
Interconnection in Community
Transcendence in Work
Beauty in Art
Sustainability in Balance
Light in Truth
Wisdom in Equality
Love in Cooperation
Unity in Diversity
Freedom in Preservation

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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” - Pablo Picasso

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree... Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein

"Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group." - Carl Sagan

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry David Thoreau

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that source in you. Let us work together for unity and love." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." - William Butler Yeats

"By Being, It Is." - Parmenides

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." - Rene Descartes

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on." - Richard Feynman

"Then he said 'Remember Bob: no fear, no envy, no meanness,' and I said 'hmmm, right.'" - Bob Dylan

"The reverse side also has a reverse side." - Japanese Proverb

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." - William James

"If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do?" - Buckminster Fuller

"The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge...." - Sri Aurobindo

"The Self alone exists; and the Self alone is real. Verily the Self alone is the world, the I-I and God. All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being." - Ramana Maharshi

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy

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