If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories
Queen Noor Of JordanRead
As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of unity among people despite their differences, urging believers to combat prejudice and intolerance.
Queen Noor of Jordan's quote speaks to the moral responsibility of individuals, particularly those with faith, to acknowledge their shared spiritual values. It calls for transcending differences and actively addressing societal issues such as prejudice and discrimination, highlighting unity as a pathway to greater harmony and understanding amongst diverse communities.
In practice
Using this quote during an interfaith dialogue to promote understanding and cooperation.
If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option.
We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die
Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? Of course we were. But although we've succeeded in replacing slaves with wage slaves, all the advances we've made have been in the field of science. Human beings are still asking the same questions as their ancestors. In short, they haven't evolved at all.
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.
Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
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