#beings

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#belief #believe #doctrine #teachers #teaching

There will be no slandering of celestial beings. I've warned you on countless occasions." "If said celestial beings weren't spreading celestial rumors, perhaps I wouldn't be moved to wrench celestial balls. ↗

— Addison Moore

#lol #skyla #toxic #lol

When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soul mate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life. ↗

— Arielle Ford

#human-beings #love #soul-mates #love

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#oneness #others #ourselves #viewpoints #forgiveness

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#demons #himself #human #human beings #like

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#certainly #ended #human #human beings #i

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#exactly #faults #human #human beings #members

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it. ↗

— Carl Barks

#been #beings #caricature #describes #ducks

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#beings #conditioning #control #denial #forms

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#certain #commandment #compassionate #god #human