The Universal
“I sing the body electric,/ The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,/ They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,/ And discorrupt them,and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”
Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric
“He doesn’t know his own self: how should he know the self of another?”
Hkim Sanai, The Walled Garden of Truth
“All the buddhas, bodhisattvas, and enlightened beings are present at all moments to help us, and it is through the presence of the master that all of their blessings are focused directly at us… All we need to do to receive direct help is to ask.”
Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“Everyone thinks his sack is heaviest.”
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
Society
“The contemplative is to the community what the soul is to the body.”
Eliezer Shore, Parabola
“Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayay Khan: The Art of Personality
“All your strength is in your union; / All your danger in discord / Therefore be at peace henceforward / And as brothers live together.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Perhaps Hell is nothing more than an enormous conference of those who, with little or nothing to say, take an eternity to say it.”
Dudley C. Stone, Journal of Systems Management, 1987
Milieu
“You’ve got to have an atmosphere where people can make mistakes. If we’re not making mistakes we’re not going anywhere.”
Gordon Forward
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind (1955)
“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
Fulton J. Sheen, Look magazine, 12/14/1955
Fellowship
“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.”
Samuel Johnson
“Love those who love you.”
Volatire, Letter to d’Alembert, 11/28/1762
“We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.”
William Hazlitt, On Criticism
“Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death, and the deeds you do upon the earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do them.”
William Morris
“Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both parties who partake in it.”
John Dewey
“He drew a circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to won: We drew a circle that took him in.”
Edwin Markham
