Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
Interpretation
Beliefs and identities can lead to conflict and violence when one group perceives itself as superior to another.
This quote by Neale Donald Walsch highlights the tragic consequences of tribalism and the belief that one's own group or ideology is superior to others. It suggests that such a mindset fosters division and can result in violence against those deemed different or inferior, emphasizing the need for understanding and acceptance among diverse groups to prevent conflict.
In practice
During a speech on unity and peace, one could use this quote to highlight the dangers of division.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
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