He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of unity among all human beings as a fundamental value.
Baha'U'Llah expresses a profound ideal where all people are seen as interconnected and part of a single entity. This perspective promotes compassion, understanding, and love among humanity, urging individuals to rise above divisions and recognize their shared identity and purpose in the world.
In practice
At a peace conference, this quote can inspire participants to work toward a common goal.
We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort - and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular.
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing - being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
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