#humanity

The Garden of Gethsemane narrative gives us a vivid view of Jesus' humanity". ~R. Alan Woods [1999] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#humanity-complexity #humanity-humans #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #humor #nature #humor

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand. ↗

— Glenway Wescott

#humor #intention #wisdom #humor

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#suffering-of-humanity #beauty

It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#confusion #humanity #experience

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #false #front #humanity #rule

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. ↗

— Billy Joel

#culture #everyone #explosive #expression #healing

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ↗

— Billy Joel

#expression #feelings #human #human needs #humanity

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#cause #earnest #efforts #greater #humanity

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#broader #concerns #confines #his #humanity