Quotes About Coexistence

Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

See that the most essential thing is life and that killing or oppressing one another will not solve anything.

We need the vision of interbeing—we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this" is the well-being of "that," so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side"; there is no evil side.

Nothing exists by itself alone. We all belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces.

No one can be by himself or herself alone. We have to inter-be, connected with everyone and everything else.

Therefore the Lotus Sutra is like a cool breeze, a gentle rain, assuaging the stifling atmosphere of contention between the conservatives and the progressives.

Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.

Juxtaposition is interesting to me.

Kansas City, well, part of the town's pretty cool, and part of the town is not. But it's gonna be that way no matter where you go.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Gazelles didn't lie down with lions, at least not unbloodied and alive.

Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read?

As long as women walk this earth, I'll be a happy man. If they ever get wiped out, I'm done.

Our entire existence was fluid and living and, as a race, a planet, a universe, it was all connected and we were all part of one another. And when we hurt one another, we hurt ourselves. And when we warred, we hurt the universe, and that was ourselves. And

In a talk he gave two hours before his death in 1968, the renowned Trappist monk Thomas Merton said, "The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another and all involved with one another.

We have an understanding. I don't laugh at his skirt, and he doesn't rip my head off." -Fi Skirata

contrast! To live in peace, without

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.