Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Interpretation
Bigotry and indifference both undermine the core values of religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes that religion can be harmed not only through outright intolerance and prejudice but also through apathy and lack of engagement. Both bigotry, which breeds divisiveness and conflict, and indifference, which leads to neglect and disconnection, serve to weaken the spiritual and communal bonds that religion can foster among people.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of understanding and accepting different faiths.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth.
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme.
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