Reverence For Life Quotes - Page 2

• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Funny, Music

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• To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

  Jon Evans

  Life, Abuse, Society

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• What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Essence, Love Life

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Achievement, Direct, Will To Live

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.109, Oxford University Press

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• Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Punishment

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.25, PuddleDancer Press

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• When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Destiny, Effort, Helping

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• Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, White, Empathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1965). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”, New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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• Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Creating, Cooperation, Emotion

  "Gary Zukav On Spiritual Spring Cleaning" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Vegetarianism, Moral

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• The optimal choice that you can make in any situation is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for life... There is wisdom in each of your choices because each of them creates consequences that you mwill experience and if you choose, learn from.

  Gary Zukav

  Mean, Choices, Soul

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• The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

  Rajneesh

  Vegetarianism, Ideas, Immense

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• Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Independent, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Giving

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• Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Attitude, Yoga

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• You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Compassion, Reverence

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• The purpose of our journey on this precious Earth is now to align our personalities with our souls and the souls of others. It is to create harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is to grow spiritually. This is our new evolutionary pathway. The old pathway - pursuing the ability to manipulate and control - no longer works.

  Gary Zukav

  Journey, Personality, Soul

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• We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.

  Elisabet Sahtouris

  Change, Corporations, Conquer

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• Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.

  Bernie Siegel

  House, Pet, Helping

  Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

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• How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Law, Omnipotence

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• Soul is that part of you that longs for harmony and cooperation and sharing and reverence for life. When you make decisions that align you with those values, you align your personality with your soul. It's that simple to understand. Now to do it, in my experience, is hard.

  Gary Zukav

  Simple, Decision, Personality

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. So as you become aware of yourself as a soul as well as a personality, the new understanding of power becomes aligning your personality with your soul, with the highest, most noble, most healthy part of yourself that you can imagine or reach for. The intentions of your soul are harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Healthy, Soul

  Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life. You will not be torn.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Joy, Soul

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".

  James Marcus

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things."

  Wilferd Peterson

  Life, Three, Becoming

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