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"Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole."
"Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others."
"Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?"
"We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger."
"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing."
"I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult."
"By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe."
"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer"
"Constant Kindness can accomplish much."
"Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals."
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him."
"Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves."
"The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil."
"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."
"The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another."
"From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity."
"Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age."
"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."
"It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man."
"I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can."