Humanness Quotes
59 quotes by 53 authors
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The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to…
— Toni Morrison
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One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there…
— Robert H. Schuller
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our…
— Tara Brach
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The more that you are being your ideas, the less human you are. The deeper your realization, being in your heart, the more of your…
— John de Ruiter
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Your sexuality is the engine of your humanness. Freed of your self, it is an engine of movement. It isn’t there to move your experience,…
— John de Ruiter
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We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
— Jean Vanier
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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
— Anne Lamott
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When you are awakened to being a being, even though you're not yet being it, the purpose of you being in a body fundamentally shifts.…
— John de Ruiter
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When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
— Edward Bond
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Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re…
— Pema Chodron
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There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how…
— Carlos Castaneda
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We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted,…
— Elif Safak
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around…
— N. T. Wright
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Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how…
— Rajneesh
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Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Be willing to laugh at your humanness and at your divinity.
— Frederick Lenz
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Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a…
— Neil Abramson
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Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to…
— Marilyn French
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
— Sigmund Freud
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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
— Herbie Hancock
Who Wrote These Humanness Quotes
53 authors contributed a total of 59 Humanness Quotes, led by these top contributors: