Many / One

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1		"We have different roots, traditions, and ways of seeing, but we share the common qualities of love, understanding, and acceptance. For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand."

2		"All of life is a reflection of God, the infinite source of holiness."

3		"The teaching of Jesus is His living body, and this living body of Christ manifests itself whenever and wherever His teaching is practiced."

4		"There is the Buddha within ourselves, who transcends space and time. This is the living Buddha, the Buddha of the ultimate reality, the one who transcends all ideas and notions and is available to us at any time."

5		"The birth of every child is important, not less than the birth of a Buddha. We, too, are a Buddha, a Buddha-to-be, and we continue to be born every minute."

6		"I urge you to study and practice the best values of your religious tradition and to share them with young people in ways they can understand. If we meditate together as a family, a community, a city, and a nation, we will be able to identify the causes of our suffering and find ways out."

7		"The bread we eat is the whole cosmos."

8		"The most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us – our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states…When we have peace within, real dialogue with others is possible."

9		"One flower is made of the whole cosmos."

10		"The insight of interbeing…can be obtained when you contemplate phenomena – a magnolia, a squirrel, or a cloud."

11		"The living Christ is the Christ of Love who is always generating love, moment after moment."

12		"You are interrelated to everyone and everything…your every act is linked with the whole of humankind and the whole cosmos."

13		"When we are in touch with the highest spirit in ourselves, we too are a Buddha, filled with the Holy Spirit, and we become very tolerant, very open, very deep, and very understanding."

14		"You are not separate from other beings or the environment. This understanding cannot be merely intellectual. It must be experiential, the insight gained by deep touching and deep looking in a daily life of prayer, contemplation, and meditation."

15		"The practices of prayer and meditation help us touch the most valuable seeds that are within us, and they put us in contact with the ground of our being."

16		"When we look into and touch deeply the life and teaching of Jesus, we can penetrate the reality of God. Love, understanding, courage, and acceptance are expressions of the life of Jesus."

17		"A human being is a mini-God, a micro-theos who has been created in order to participate in the divinity of God."

18		"Different religious traditions can engage in dialogue with one another in a true spirit of ecumenism. Dialogue can be fruitful and enriching if both sides are truly open. If they really believe that there are valuable elements in each other's tradition and that they can learn from one another, they will also rediscover many valuable aspects of their own tradition through such an encounter. Peace will be a beautiful flower blooming on this field of practice."

19		"In Christianity, faith means trust in God, the One who represents love, understanding, dignity, and truth."

20		"When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it….In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It 'inter-is' with everything else in the universe."

21		"Buddha nature as the seed of enlightenment is already in everyone's consciousness."

22		"Really hearing a bird sing or really seeing a blue sky, we touch the seed of the Holy Spirit within us."

23		"Loving God is loving the living beings we see and touch in our daily life."

24		"The seed of the Kingdom of God is within us. If we know how to plant that seed in the moist soil of our daily lives, it will grow and become a large bush on which many birds can take refuge."

25		"We are all, at the same time, the sons and daughters of God."