Understanding
David | May 29, 2009
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. - Helen Keller 1880 – 1968, author, activist
Metaphorical God
David | May 29, 2009
The limits of my metaphorical language for God are the limits of my experience of God – Paul McKenna, creator of the Golden Rule Poster
The Beginning of Wisdom
David | May 28, 2009
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom -Theodore Isaac Rubin, American psychiatrist and author
A Matter of Time
David | May 28, 2009
Perhaps history takes such a long time because we are unwilling to bring it into being more quickly. Perhaps, with the energetic application of the Golden Rule, we can make injustice history just a little more quickly.
Couldn’t hurt to try.
Mystical Loneliness
David | May 27, 2009
Loneliness is the fundamental force that urges mystics to a deeper union with God. An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxically, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them. – Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche
Solidarity
David | May 27, 2009
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. – Albert Schweitzer
The End of Our Exploring
David | May 26, 2009
We shall not cease from exploration; And the end of all our exploring; Will be to arrive where we started; And know the place for the first time T.S. Eliot
Something in Humanity
David | May 25, 2009
Only when we work together as a global family, instead of concentrating on belonging to a particular race, religion or nation, will peace and happiness prevail on this earth. – Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Hindu teacher. 1953 – )
It’s Good To Laugh – Especially at Ourselves
David | May 25, 2009
I came across the following in a “golden search” online.
I heartily recommend taking a moment to give it a read. It helps to put our sometimes stuffy sense of the importance of the Golden Rule into perspective.
It’s from the Mercator College Blog. Click Here
Rev. Leslie Mezai Receives Golden Rule Ambassador Award
David | May 23, 2009
Scarboro Missions has responded to the inspiration of the Interfaith Peace Initiative in Ethiopia which is encouraging organizations around the world to recognize Golden Rule Ambassadors for Peace among their constituencies. On May 23, Scarboro Missions honoured the long-standing interfaith commitment of Leslie Gabriel Mezei with a Golden Rule Ambassador Award.
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