#mankind

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."

"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."

"The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars."

"There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found."

"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

"It may be inevitable that mankind has to suffer so that it may gain experience to transcend and transform her collective consciousness."

"Mankind is nothing but a playground of consciousness."

"I am thankful to all the souls, I meet in the journey of life."

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]"

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."

"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."

"What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected."

"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

"What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is."

"Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man."

"ONE BUT MANYOne God, many faces.One family, many races.One truth, many paths.One heart, many complexions.One light, many reflections.One world, many imperfections.ONE.We are all one,But many."