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Stoicism is cowardice disguising itself with reason. It is not a belief, but a psychological tactic. It is the ultimate defeat handed to us by the philosophers.
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A belief that is worthy of the name is one that grows that which is within and that which is without
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Man is a special kind of tree. When he strives towards the light he grows, when he dwells in the dark for too long he will surely die
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Contemplate a spring leaf and then return in the winter and contemplate the bare branch. Each was within each. Nothing is missing.
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Love is necessary. Understanding more so.
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You will have this. But you have that. This the equation of every lived life.
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She or he does not love you. Do not weep. For you love
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All love is growth. Possession, death.
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He or she has died. Do not weep. Where they are. You soon shall be.
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Death is both the great reminder of humility and the father of excellence
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You cannot build a civilization upon the fleeting pleasures of the body. For such a civilization will not rise but sink into a cesspool of sadistic evil.
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God is not against the body. He is the body
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Jew kills Muslim. Muslim kills Christian. And Christian kills Jew. And God is no nearer.
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If you are a Jew you should study the Koran. If you are a Muslim you should study the New Testament. If you are a Christian you should study the Torah. And in this shall God truly rejoice.
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Is your faith so weak that you shall not study the others?
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God is the Creator. If your religion leads you to destroy, how, then, are you nearer to Him?
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Do not view the separate religions as enemy caves within which you dare not enter. All religions are the beautiful houses of God.
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If you persist in believing that others must die for Allah, Christ, or Zion; not only will God not come to Earth, but there will be no Earth to come to.
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The stars are beautiful. The galaxies. The nebulae. But life more so. Think on this and believe
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If Lifeis not your God, then, be assured, you have chosen the ways of Death
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God has sung many Songs to Man. Learn to listen to them all
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I ask you: Do you have the courage to admit that you may be wrong? If so, God is well pleased with you
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Many of you deeply love your cats and your dogs. And do you love the homeless, the refugee, the war victim, the poor man or woman even less?
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You are proud to be an American, a Russian, a Brit etc.? Yet, if not tempered, this pride will destroy the world.
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What price are you willing to pay for pride? Upon this question hangs the fate of Mankind
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Do not mistake simplicity for stupidity.
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You have not failed if you have loved
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A shared belief in the sacredness of life is the essential precondition for saving all life on this planet
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What is sacred is all around you; do not harden your heart to it
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Understand this: to help someone is to heal yourself
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You lament your fate? Turn around and start helping others
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Life has been unfair to you? Go out into the world and show others what fairness means
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You have suffered? Teach others how to heal
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You have been wronged? Do the right
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No one has loved you? Show the world your love
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You ask: Why should I believe in life? Logical: if you did not, you would not be here to ask the question.
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The belief in the sacredness of life is immanently logical: if you do not believe in it, you then automatically believe in its opposite—Nothingness which obviously cannot sustain any sort of belief or existence. If you say you believe in “Nothingness” you are a liar for you are here now alive and saying it. Be consequent: if you are alive you necessarily believe in life; now deepen that belief and reach the Mercy of God.
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Life is God’s divine mercy. The alleviation of suffering is ours.
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If a belief leads to more suffering in the world: cast it out. For we are the followers of Life
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No nation, no doctrine, no ideology, no science, no faith, no religion, no thought is higher than the belief in the sacredness of Life. Understand this and thrive
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When is it allowed to kill? Ironically and sadly, when killing will save the future of life
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When any political or economic system threatens the future of life either reform it or destroy it
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Any leaders who build their power on the promise or threat of violence should be shunned like the plague
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There is only one human species. One great common history. One great global culture. One common destiny. Think on this. Build upon it. Grow.
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We will not reach the stars if we do not, first, reach out to ourselves
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Technology increases power, right belief tames it
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We stand at a threshold in human history: either a future of soulless world-destroying technology or a new global society that will always ask first: how will this further Life?
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Celebrate life. Worship life. Believe in life. Aid life. And all will be well
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All the conquests of Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, and Hitler were as nothing as compared to putting a bandaid upon the knee of a distraught child. Understand this and survive
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Go to the stars if you will but do not forget to bring Joy
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You will know what true strength is: to do the right when all others do wrong
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Learn to distinguish between the philosophies of life and the philosophies of death
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There is no reason to hate; only to learn, to understand, to evolve.
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Truly as Socrates hath said: all evil is ignorance. And we say: the highest knowledge is the sacredness of Life
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Follow life and all else will follow e’en God
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Weakness is no sin. It is only a beginning
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There is only one great sin: the illogical position of negating the sacredness of life while still alive
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All religions preach the sacredness of Life; we but demonstrate its inherent logic
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Once you accept the logic of the sacredness of Life you will see the future. You will see all possibility
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Yet, a civilization cannot thrive only with machines, and reason and logic and production. It must fill the heart with an heroic vision. It must make men, women, and children into the sacred heroes of Life
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Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed; all believed in the sacredness of Life; strive not to betray them
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This, here and now, is the Garden. Our planet A. Make it an Eden.
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What and whom you treat with disrespect; know this: you have disrepected yourself twice as much
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Do not fear to let go of ancient beliefs that no longer serve life. Indeed, fear not to let go of them
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God is as the distant sky and Man the earth-bound tree. As he stretches towards God; he will change form. He must.
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Do not mistake the Holy Words for the speech of God. They are but a dim translation from an even dimmer mind.
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I have come not to disrespect the ancient religions but to save what is best in them
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So as it is between a man and a woman so it is between Man and God. For love to grow, it must evolve
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The world is a vessel. The things in it: signs. Man: the careful reader
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Man is the flesh that desires more than flesh; feed this desire the wrong food and perish
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What is the sacred? The luminosity of the unknowable
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Even the darkness shines if you but know how to look at it
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Serve life; the truest Ego
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God calls to Man. It is up to us to call back
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If God did not hide how would His children ever grow?
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I ask the Muslim. I ask the Jew. I ask the Christian. Did not God make all three of you?
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I ask the Muslim. I ask the Jew. I ask the Christian. Who will be the first among you to kill the other’s unborn child?
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I ask the Muslim. I ask the Jew. I ask the Christian. Who amongst you is willing to burn down the whole world to preserve a book?
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I ask the Muslim. I ask the Jew. I ask the Christian. Who amongst you would be the first to save the other from drowning in the sea? For know this, my brothers and sisters, we are all drowning.
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I ask the Muslim. I ask the Jew. I ask the Christian. Which one of you is willing to change to perserve all life on earth? For it is he, and only he, who shall be called blest
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Know this: It is surely God’s will that you Jew, that you Muslim, that you Christian love one another. For the true name of God is Life
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Will you abandon your children to hate and to war and to murder and to discord and to devastation? Do you not love your children? Then open your eyes to Life
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In an age of the formation of a planetary civilization; a planetary faith must hold it together. And that faith is simple: the sacredness of all Life
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What is closest to God? The beating heart
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What is furthest from God? The closed mind
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You ask: have I seen God? I have seen Life: and that is more than enough
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What is more important to you? To keep tradition alive or life itself?
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It is the fool who does not respect the past but it is the coward who fears to go beyond it
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Do you think that if Moses or Jesus or Mohamed were to return that they would be well pleased with you?
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The prophecy is simple: Life
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Tend this planet; do the work of God
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Your hands were meant to caress one another
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Love can sustain a world; love and understanding can save it
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The time has come to choose: Nation or life? Creed or life? Consumption or life? Repression or life?
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All life changes; so too then must belief
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A civilization unwilling to change its belief is like a child unwilling to go to school: willful and dangerous
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A world body is emerging; now we must give it a proper heart
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Rejoice my brothers and sisters! There is a way: the sacredness of Life
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Go out into the World and spread the Sacred News: there is nothing more divine for Man than to serve Life; all Life
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God, if He is there, is not going anywhere. It is we who must go
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The Creator hath said: it is Good. And that Good: is Life
Dan Corjescu teaches at the University of Tübingen’s “Studium Professionale” Program
