Tending, carrying and protecting the common life; the individual is part of a whole.
The weight says how heavily the value counts in the texts of a tradition. The share beside it says how widespread it is. Rows drawn faintly rest on fewer than five texts; they say something about those texts, nothing yet about the tradition.
These sentences come from sermons and addresses that know nothing of each other. They are set alternately by tradition so that how close they come is visible.
This year's election has recorded an impressive organisational development and a comprehensive gathering of the choirmaster world compared to the past.
A prejudice is when we judge a person without knowing them. A prejudice is when we evaluate someone by their name, their origin, their language, their faith, their appearance, or their place of residence.
The joy of love that families experience is also the joy of the Church
Even if the branches of a tree touch the sky, if you tear it out of the ground in which its roots are planted, the branches wither. That is why one must go there and draw sustenance from the place where one spent one's childhood.
We do not have to like them; we do not have to approve of their beliefs, but we must love them and respect their inherent dignity. They, like us, are created in the image of God.
The illuminated shrine stood out as a lighthouse and a gathering point for the diversity of people who had arrived for the event 'Terraces by Night'.
The church is only one generation away from dying out.
Perhaps this is precisely the true counter-image to the ben sorer uʼmoreh: not perfect children or perfect parents, but families who instead remain in dialogue with one another – even through anger, disappointment, and rebellion.
The most important thing here is the matter of right view, right view that does not agree. Look, look, there is wrong view, just as with them. They can still come to an agreement, they can still shake hands, because it is the same wrong view.
Together with our families and allies, equality voters can decide elections. The HRC calls on everyone: Check your voter registration status today; Make a plan to vote early, by mail, or on Election Day; Bring two or three friends to the polls.
The question is not simply how to introduce more technology, but how to select tools that serve people and the planet, protect rights, and reduce dependence on powerful technology companies.
Only with this vision that you and I are one does our goodness have any meaning. For whoever, O Arjuna, sarvatra samampashati, sees the same everywhere.
What is most important in all of this is not the mechanisms, but the feeling, the truth of these words in your own body, in your own heart, in your own mind.
Our shared commitment to the Satkaar of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji should be a source of unity for the Panth, not an opportunity to exploit divisions.
Zionism, simply put, is the conviction that the Jewish people have the right to self-determination in their homeland.
Therefore, anyone who accepts initiation in the Gauḍīya tradition will have to recite the Kṛṣṇa-first version of the mantra. This does not mean that we claim this version is in itself more efficacious.
Persons with a stronger universalist orientation – in which moral obligations apply not only to one's own group but to all people – are more willing to support ambitious climate protection measures.
Rather, the belonging to which he called was the adoption of his customs, the following of the guidance of his words, the adherence to his dialogical approach, through which he reached hearts and minds, and the striving to build bridges of communication with others
May all great beings, wherever they may be, who preserve and spread the teachings of the Buddha, live long and overcome all obstacles, so that the banner of the teachings rises in all directions.
When we do good for others, it becomes our own help; when we light a fire for others, our own path becomes bright
Sincere virtue only reveals itself when one is willing to give from what is dear and precious to oneself.
The strength of this dining hall lies not only in distributing food, but in the fact that residents come in person, look one another in the eye, and share a meal.
He was convinced that if the Torah offers only a narrow path, all those who wish to develop other areas of their personality will leave the community. Not because they reject Judaism, but because Judaism rejects them.
There is an old Greek habit that does not die easily. To demand from the state what we cannot, do not want to, or do not know how to earn on our own.
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