Quotes About Unity

As white Christians become closer with Christians of color, we will become better interpreters of the presence of the kingdom among us. After all, despite suffering our society's racism and white supremacist assumptions, our siblings of color can still testify to the evidence of God's kingdom. Over time, we too will develop the eyes to see with greater clarity as we invite others to join in following Jesus into the kingdom he has made available.

All our lives are hard in one way or another... But listen to me... We need to be kind to each other, and stick together, OK? This place is tough enough without you making my life a misery.

Fingers and Thumbs

Jijji is a traitor. One of the most vicious and brutal humans that you can ever come into contact with. His blood is like snake venom, and his mouth is like a black widow's. He will kill and eat his own family in order for his own survival, which is backwards. There is no such thing as living, if you do not have your family. He's not supposed to treat us like this. We are all family right here, right now.

Let's be about it, people.

we have so many allies in this world, including just the color blue in the sky

work and life are not separate things and therefore cannot be balanced against each other except to create further trouble.

Being after, being alongside, being near [près] would appear as different modes of being, indeed of being-with.

Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew.

Do you know why soldiers march in unison? Or why they are compelled to chant in groups? It's a form of hypnosis, it overrides the brain's critical thinking centers. It's the same reason we make schoolchildren shout the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.

You know the Tower of Babel, right? You went to Sunday School?" "Yeah, sure. In ancient times everybody on earth spoke the same language, then they decided to build a tower that would reach all the way up to heaven. Then God cursed everybody on the job site to each speak a different language to mess them up.

If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.

If we look hard enough, we can discern hundreds of parts: kings and queens, warriors and troubadours, mages, bullies, and saints. And hustlers, adventurers, survivors, rebels, reactionaries, and rogues. And the part of us that wants to be more than human, or rather more fully human. I believe that we need to enlist all these separate selves into a single army of free companions who respect each other and love each other to the death.

All problems can be solved over ice cream!

I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali

Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.

My Life is your life, Mary Ann I am not just acting like you I am you living in your spirit.

The most significant gift our species brings to the world is our capacity to think. The most significant danger our species brings to the world is our inability to think with those who think differently.

Humans can no longer afford to think in division and darkness. Collaborative intelligence is the light that is necessary for our individual and collective survival. We have no choice now but to think together.

we must learn how to think collaboratively and innovatively.

GREAT MINDS DON'T THINK ALIKE … BUT THEY CAN LEARN TO THINK TOGETHER!

Indian Vedic philosophy holds that the great nonlocal universal consciousness is reflected in each of us. The analogy is that of buckets of water in which the sun is reflected. Though there are many different buckets, it is the same sun reflecting in all of them.

Never think that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

And when you can align your behaviors with your intentions, make your actions equal to your thoughts, or get your mind and body working together, you are going to have a new experience.