By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the liberation of one is interconnected with the liberation of all, emphasizing collective upliftment.
Edwin Markham's quote speaks to the idea that individual freedom and progress are deeply intertwined with the freedom and progress of others. It posits that true advancement cannot be achieved in isolation; rather, in the journey towards higher states of existence and understanding, we must collectively elevate one another. This reflects a philosophy of interconnectedness and shared humanity, suggesting that we are all bound together in our struggles and triumphs.
In practice
During a speech on social justice.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
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