EQUALITY
There are no throwaway people.
- Neem Karoli Baba
We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
- Swami Ramdas
The divided life is a wounded life, and the soul keeps calling us to heal the wound. Ignore that call, and we find ourselves trying to numb our pain with an anesthetic of choice, be it substance abuse, overwork, consumerism, or mindless media noise.
- Parker J. Palmer
I come from the East, most of you are Westerners. If I look at you superficially, we are different, and if I put my emphasis on that level, we grow more distant. If I look on you as my own kind, as human beings like myself, with one nose, two eyes, and so forth, then automatically that distance is gone. We are the same human flesh. I want happiness; you also want happiness. From that mutual recognition, we can build respect and real trust of each other. From that can come cooperation and harmony.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Service brings the equality of all human beings, both those being served and those who are serving.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org
Inside the Great Mystery that is,
we don't really own anything.
What is this competition we feel then,
before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
- Rumi, tr. Moyne and Barks, quoted in After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
Unworthiness brings misconceptions of reality. Once you understand that you are loved completely, unworthiness begins to melt away.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org