Quotes About Humanity

Zaten bir felakete sükun ve itidalle tahammül edenlerin manzaras?,o felaket için a?lay?p ç?rp?nanlar?n manzaras?ndan çok daha korkunç ve ezicidir. Kuru ve sabit gözlerin arkas?nda nas?l bir ate?in yand???; yava?ça kalk?p inen gö?sün içinde nelerin kaynad??? bilinmedi?i için, insan mütemadi bir ürkeklik ve teredüt içinde üzülür.

Nedense, hayatta bir müddet beraber yürüdü?ümüz insanlar?n ba??na bir felaket geldi?ini, herhangi bir s?k?nt?ya dü?tü?ünü görünce bu belalar? kendi ba??m?zdan savm?? gibi ferahl?k duyar ve o zavall?lara, sanki bize de gelebilecek belalar? kendi üstlerine çektikleri için, alaka ve merhamet göstermek isteriz.

Müphem bir his bana, kim olursa olsun bir insan? tamamen gördükten ve gördüklerini kendinden saklamad?ktan sonra, ona hiçbir zaman büsbütün yakla??lamayaca??n? f?s?ld?yordu.

Ama ruhumuz böyle gökyüzlerinde uçup dururken birdenbire yere inip insan küçüklü?ü ile kar??la?mak ne tuhaf oluyor.

?nsanlar aras?ndaki münasebetleri tanzim eden amiller ne kadar gülünç, ne kadar d??tan, ne kadar bo? ve bilhassa as?l insanl?kla ne kadar az alakas? olan ?eylerdi.

Fakat bu haller, içinde saklan?p kalm?? olan insanl???n aras?ra nefes almak için yapt??? hamlelerden ibaretti ve muhitinin senelerce sab?rl? bir çal??ma ile vücu­da getirdi?i sahte ?ahsiyet, as?l hüviyetinin ba? kald?rmas?na meydan vermiyecek kadar kuvvetliydi.

Bu ak?am anlad?m ki, bir insan di?er bir insana bazen hayata ba?land???ndan çok daha kuvvetli ba?larla sar?labilirmi?.

Bu dünya böyledir i?te, kimi adam öldürdü?ü için katil diye an?l?r, kimi ad? katile ç?kt? diye adam öldürür.

Su mundo de humanos standard: Una burbuja donde nada sino lo humano es oído o visto realmente, donde nada más que lo humano importa y lo demás es paisaje, mercancía o comida.

Humanity is not like a bundle of sticks, a cluster of hardly outlined microcosms, nor an arithmetical addition of integers, but is a body constituted, after the fashion of the human body, of adapted members, living, throbbing and moving as one.

Everybody must realize that this battle will be the mother of all battles, and that God wanted us to wage the battle of liberating the nation and humanity, the battle of liberating Jerusalem and the holy shrines on the land of Iraq.

But to be loving is simply this: a willingness to respond freely and openly. Right now, it may be limited to one or two people in your lives. But it is possible to extend this ability to embrace the entire world.

Being responsible is taking ownership of your life. It means you have taken the first radical step to becoming a complete human being—fully conscious and fully human. In taking responsibility and beginning the journey toward conscious living, you are putting an end to the age-old patterns of assigning blame outward or heavenward. You have begun the greatest adventure life has to offer: the voyage inward.

Most people will grow only with pain, not with pleasure. It's unfortunate, but that's the truth. Generally people only go down with pleasure. They don't go up with pleasure. Please see, the quality of a human being is like this: when life offers more and more pleasures to a man, he doesn't grow. He goes down. In terms of the real quality of a human being, only when suffering comes, when pain comes, does a man stand up as a human being.

Many senseless people who don't even know how they should live are going on producing more children. They have not even learned how they should live. Forget about enlightenment; they don't even know how to keep their physical body! They don't know what the human form is. They don't know how to keep their emotions; they don't know how to keep their mind in balance. Why are these people going on producing children?

I understood that being loving and compassionate is not an idea. To live in empathy is not some esoteric principle. This is the way a human being is made. If you do not identify with anything you have accumulated over a period of time, including your body and mind, you will be able to experience this.

If your humanity overflows, divinity will follow and serve you. It has no other choice.

If we had no problem with biology, we would not make a distinction between who was who. Everybody would be known for what they are worth; whether somebody is male or female would be irrelevant.

All of the "material-versus-spiritual" struggles of humanity spring from this ignorance. When you say "spirituality," you are talking about a dimension beyond the physical. The human desire to transcend the limitations of the physical is a completely natural one. To journey from the boundary-based individual body to the boundless source of creation—this is the very basis of the spiritual process.

There is so much talk of God and heaven mainly because human beings have not realized the immensity of being human.

Down the centuries, mystics have explored fragments of human consciousness. They have found one doorway here, one doorway there. But nobody has explored every possible doorway to human consciousness. No one did it before Adiyogi. And no one has needed to do it since. His work remains alive for those who have the eyes to see it.

Somehow in the name of divinity we have just lost our humanity. Don't talk about divinity, let your humanity overflow. When your humanity overflows, you will touch divinity, otherwise there is no way. It is simply empty talk; it doesn't get anybody anywhere.

When everybody was talking about going to heaven, Gautama the Buddha said, "You say everything is fine in heaven, so what will I do there? Let me go to hell and do something to help others, because anyway I cannot suffer.

that people understand this: you did not create life, so you have no business to take it either—whether it is yours or someone else's.