Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
Interpretation
Beliefs and identities can lead to conflict and violence when one group perceives itself as superior to another.
This quote by Neale Donald Walsch highlights the tragic consequences of tribalism and the belief that one's own group or ideology is superior to others. It suggests that such a mindset fosters division and can result in violence against those deemed different or inferior, emphasizing the need for understanding and acceptance among diverse groups to prevent conflict.
In practice
During a speech on unity and peace, one could use this quote to highlight the dangers of division.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.
Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.
These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.
The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties
Torah values are the ones that inform my life.
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