The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as the perfect human. All humans are imperfect whether they/we like it or not, but it is… — Isaiah Harden Copy Share Image
“Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us. No matter how… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as change, but I would describe it as an alteration.'' Change implies transformation, if humanity has instincts… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the… — Mark Hatfield Copy Share Image
There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways,… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
We can't say that we believe in each other’s fundamental humanity and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then what of our cries? What can… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It changed the life of mankind more radically than the printing press. It created suburbs and a hundred other dependencies—sexual and economic… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people… — Florence Luscomb Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The Koran says that humanity has been created to recognize and worship God and, as a dimension of this worship, to improve… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“When two human beings divided by hostility are both, at the same time, mystified—no, frightened—by the same apparition, there is a bond… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the… — Tiziano Terzani Copy Share Image
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“I loved looking at the stars—they put in perspective how small I was compared to the Universe. Each of those hundreds of… — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“As soon as the genome had been cmpletely decoded (which would be in a matter of months) humanity would have complete control… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
