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Sitaram · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079

Date: Sat Oct 19, 2002 4:19 pm
Subject: Divine Peace

Buy captive animals and give them freedom.
How commendable is abstinence that dispenses with the butcher!
While walking be mindful of worms and ants.

Be cautious with fire and do not set mountain woods or forests
ablaze.

Do not go into the mountain to catch birds in nets, nor to the
water to poison fishes and minnows.

Do not butcher the ox that plows your field.

- Taoism, Tract of the Quiet Way

Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai used to say, "If there be a plant in your
hand when they say to you, 'Behold the Messiah!', go and plant the
plant, and afterwards go out and greet him."
- Judaism, Talmud, Abot de Rabbi Nathan

Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a
disposition for benevolence, confidence and justice.

- Spinoza

Satyagraha is gentle, it never wounds. It must not be the result of
anger or malice. It is never fussy, never impatient, never
vociferous. It is the direct opposite of compulsion. It was
conceived as a complete substitute for violence.

- Ghandi, `Ghandi the Man'

Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love
and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Live a godly
life yourself and everyone who crosses your path will be helped just
by being with you.

- Paramahansa Yogananda, `Spiritual Diary'

When you see yourself and someone else as one being, when you know
the most joyful day and the most terrible night as one moment, then
awareness is alone with it's Lord.

- Lalla 14th Century North Indian mystic

From "Naked Song" Versions by Coleman Barks Maypop, 1992

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